SIOUX FALLS, S.F. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls police officers are carrying Tasers for another less-than-lethal option when confronted with force.

Chief Doug Barthel says Tasers will reduce risk of injury to both officers and suspects.  He says the Tasers "provide another resource for the men and women who serve out city each day."

Barthel says officers are going through training in shifts.  He says close to 40 officers have Tasers.  

He says a Taser was used on a man who was not complying with officer's commands in an incident Sunday afternoon near Lincoln High School.  That the first time in Sioux Falls.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - On March 12, 2015, the Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force received information that methamphetamine was being sold out of a home at 6605 W 53^rd St, Sioux Falls, SD.  The occupants of the home operate a daycare out of the home. Based on the drug distribution information received, and the fact that more children would be arriving at the daycare after school, the task force and child protection services went to the home to check on the children.  There were three children under 2 being cared for at the daycare. After the children were turned over to their parents, a search of the residence was conducted.

The occupants of the home, Jennifer Darger age 33 and Adam Darger age 32 were arrested and lodged for possession of controlled substance, possession of controlled substance with intent to distribute, keeping a place where drugs are used/stored, violation of a drug free zone, possession of drug paraphernalia. 

Sioux Falls and Rapid City, SD (KELO AM) – Organizers of the prestigious Lakota Nation Invitational basketball tournament are reportedly unhappy with the way officials in Rapid City have handled recent incidents of racism against Native Americans, and want to take their tournament and its $6 million economic impact out of the city.

According to reports from the Associated Press and KCSR radio in Chadron, NE tournament organizers have fielded offers from Spearfish and Hot Springs, SD and Bismarck, ND, and are willing to talk with officials in Sioux Falls as well. Heather Hitterdal says that the Mayor’s office has reached out to tournament organizers; however no meetings have been scheduled.

The tournament and events surrounding it have been a mainstay in Rapid City for more than three decades. Besides a 16 team boys and girls basketball tournament, the LNI also features competitions in volleyball, wrestling, archery, volleyball, academics, and Native culture.  Additionally events such as Pow-Wows and art shows are held to showcase Native culture. Organizers say over 3 thousand students participated in the 2014 LNI.

BROOKINGS (KELO AM) - Pre-eminent breast cancer researcher V. Craig Jordan, the "Father of Tamoxifen," will speak at South Dakota State University April 13.Jordan is professor of breast medical oncology and professor of molecular and cellular oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, one of an original three U.S. comprehensive cancer centers established by the National Cancer Act of 1971 and the largest freestanding cancer center in the world.

Jordan joined MD Anderson in September 2014 after serving as scientific director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.Tamoxifen is a groundbreaking therapeutic anti-cancer drug that is credited with saving countless lives worldwide.A native of New Braunfels, Texas, Jordan was raised and educated in England and discovered the breast cancer prevention properties of tamoxifen and the scientific principles for adjuvant therapy with anti-hormones. He reinvented the failed contraceptive as a breast cancer treatment.

The drug, in existence since the 1960s, was created to block estrogen in hopes of preventing pregnancy. This failed and the program was abandoned.In 1977, Jordan developed the strategy of long-term adjuvant tamoxifen therapy as well as describing and deciphering the properties of a new group of medicines called selective estrogen receptor modulators a decade later. He was the first to discover the preventive abilities of both tamoxifen (1976) and the drug raloxifene (1987). The Food and Drug Administration approved the medicines for reducing breast cancer cases in high-risk women.

How tamoxifen worksTamoxifen lowers the risk of breast cancer recurrence, breast cancer in the opposite breast and death from cancer. It does so by preventing the cancer cells from getting the hormones they need to grow. Hormone receptor-positive breast cancers need the hormone estrogen to grow.Tamoxifen attaches to the hormone receptor in the cancer cell, blocking estrogen from attaching to the receptor. This slows or stops the tumor's growth. Another advantage of tamoxifen is that it can be used to treat breast cancer in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women.Lecture scheduleJordan will deliver two lectures at SDSU as the third annual Francis Miller Distinguished Lecturer.

His talk to the general public—"The Tamoxifen Tale and Beyond"—is 7 p.m. April 13 in the Great Hall (Room 109) of the McCrory Gardens Education and Visitor Center, 631 22nd Ave. In the 45-minute talk, Jordan will describe the journey of discovery to develop tamoxifen and selective estrogen receptor modulators to advance women's health. A short question-and-answer period will follow.Jordan's scientific lecture—"Drug Resistance to Anti-hormone Therapy: Estrogen-Induced Apoptosis"—will be delivered at 3 p.m. in Room 027 of the Avera Health and Science Center.Both lectures are open to the public and there is no admission charge.Professor Xiangmiang Guan, a professor of medicinal chemistry in the SDSU College of Pharmacy, said Jordan's discovery of tamoxifen therapy started the hormone therapy era and revolutionized the breast cancer treatment. "As pharmaceutical scientists, we are very excited to have a chance to learn from Dr. Jordan. But this is also a time when the community can hear for themselves the story on the breakthrough of one of the most important drugs of our time," Guan said.Francis Miller LectureshipCancer is one of the major research focus areas in the College of Pharmacy. The Francis Miller lectureship was established to bring leading cancer researchers to the campus, providing a great opportunity for the faculty, students and the public to learn from leading scientists.

The lectureship is supported by the Francis Miller fund. Francis J. ("Johnny") Miller, who died in 1987, was a longtime pharmacist and drugstore owner in South Dakota. His trust assets came to the South Dakota State University Foundation in 2009 to support pharmacy research and special educational programs, such as the Francis Miller Lectureship.For more information, contact the College of Pharmacy at 688-6197 or email sdsu.pharmacy@sdstate.edu.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - If you are driving in downtown Sioux Falls today, there will be road closures in your way with the St. Patrick's Day observance.

The Fun Run route starts at 5th Street and Phillips Avenue.  It continues down Phillips Avenue to 8th Street, 8th Street to Reid Avenue, and Reid Avenue to the bike trail. This route will be closed for two short periods, from 9 to 9:10 a.m. and from 11:30 to 11:40 a.m. Phillips Avenue will also be closed between 9th and 10th Streets for the painting of the Shamrock from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The parade will start at 2 p.m. closing Main Avenue from 2nd Street to 13th Street, 13th Street from Main Avenue to Phillips Avenue, and Phillips Avenue from 13th Street to 2nd Street. The route will be closed until about 4:30 p.m., depending on the number of parade entrants.

During the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 14, 2015, from 1:45 p.m. until the end of the parade, Sioux Area Metro Bus Routes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 10 will load and unload on Dakota Avenue between 10th Street and 11th Street. Bus Routes 4, 5, 7, and 9 will use The Bus Stop at its normal location. Please plan your travel in advance as busses will not be able to wait for passengers transferring from the Dakota Avenue temporary bus stop to the normal Bus Stop. All bus stop operations will resume normally after the parade is over in the late afternoon.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - Three people were treated for possible smoke ihalation after a Friday night fire in central Sioux Falls.

Fire crews were called to a fire at a duplex near the intersection of 12th Street and Western Avenue just before 11:30Friday night.  All residents were out of the building when firefighters arrived.  

One unit of the building suffered heavy smoke and fire damage.  The other has light smoke damage, but is temporarily uninhabitable.

Two pets were rescued, but one pet died in the fire.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.  

The RedCross is assisting those displaced by the fire.

By Amanda Becker

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to announce an investigation this week into Hillary Clinton’s use of email when she led the State Department, ABC News reported on Sunday.

ABC's "This Week" said that top Republicans briefed the program about Speaker John Boehner's plan to investigate Clinton's use of her personal email address when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013

However, the network did not state whether the probe would be separate from an ongoing House investigation and additional actions being considered by an oversight committee.

Clinton's failure to use a government email address has sparked a storm of criticism even as she lays the groundwork for an expected 2016 presidential bid. At a news conference last Tuesday, she said her private email address was a "convenience" so she would not have to carry two mobile devices.

Also on Tuesday, Clinton's office released a detailed document about her email use and the steps she had taken to provide relevant official emails to the State Department.

Clinton sent and received 62,320 emails while at the State Department, and after a review process, 30,490 official emails were provided to the department and 31,830 were withheld as private and personal records, the document said.

Clinton's attorneys used key search terms, such as official government account addresses and countries relevant to ongoing congressional probes, to identify official emails, according to the document.

These search was conducted in addition to reading every single email, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill confirmed Sunday.

Clinton's use of a personal email address first surfaced as congressional panels investigated the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.

Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, the head of a House committee examining Benghazi, has said he would like Clinton to testify before Congress by April, when she is expected to formally launch her presidential campaign.

Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz, who chairs an oversight committee on government reform, said last week that his panel would cooperate with Gowdy's and "continue looking into this matter."

Boehner's office declined to comment on the ABC News report. A Gowdy representative said that its Benghazi probe would continue.

Gowdy told "Fox News Sunday" that there are "huge gaps" in the Clinton email record provided to the committee.

"I just can't trust her lawyers to make the determination that the public is getting everything they're entitled to," Gowdy said.

(Reporting by Amanda Becker; Editing by Frances Kerry and Christian Plumb)

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The El Riad Shrine is holding burn trauma seminars for first responders and emergency staffers next week.

Shriner Roger Risty says there is a glaring need for the information.

Risty says there's a lack of education on the initial treatment of burns.  He says Sioux Falls hasn't had a burn treatment center at any of the hospitals for years.

The seminars are March 23 in Brookings, March 24 in Sioux Falls at 8:30 am and 6 pm, and March 25th in Yankton.              

Risty says for more information call 605-338-1489 or 605-366-5062.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The South Dakota legislature passed a road bill that raises the gas tax by six cents, license and license plate fees by 20% and allows counties to impose a $5 and up to $60 dollars per wheel.

Senator Bernie Hunoff of Yankton told legislators that “it’s not the position any of us wanted to be in.”

But Hunhoff told legislators last Friday that if they didn't think South Dakota doesn't have road problems then they're not driving around the state very often.  He says the local roads are in especially bad shape.               

If Governor Daugaard signs the bill it will take effect the first of next month.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Board of Education held a public hearing in Sioux Falls today on four proposed curriculum updates.

Speaking in support of the science standards Sam Shaw with the Department Education says a thirty member group worked on the benchmarks.

One parent testified that she didn’t have objections to evolution or global warming being taught.  She asked the Board to make sure that all sides of the issues are presented.

If standards are approved they would be fully implemented by the 2017-2018 school year.

Another public hearing on the standards is set for May.

BROOKINGS (KELO AM) - The cadet cyber-security team of the Big Sioux Composite Squadron in Brookings, part of the Civil Air Patrol’s South Dakota Wing, won second place in the national finals of the Air Force Association’s seventh annual CyberPatriot Competition held in Washington, D.C. from 11-15 March. In addition, they were the top Civil Air Patrol team in the competition.

The team from Brookings competed in the “All Service Division” national finals for the fourth year in a row against teams from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Junior ROTC programs, the Naval Sea Cadet Corps and the Civil Air Patrol. In CyberPatriot-VII 1,007 teams competed in the All Services Division, 400 teams from CAP units. Only the top two teams from each organization in the All Services Division got to go to the national finals. “We are extremely proud of the accomplishments of the Big Sioux squadron in their pursuit of being the top team in the competition. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into preparation for this competition and to be the top Civil Air Patrol team in the nation is no easy feat.” Said Colonel John Seten, the Wing Commander of the South Dakota Civil Air Patrol.

In the national finals 28 teams, 13 from the All Service Division, competed to defend virtual networks and mobile devices from a professional aggressor team. The national finalists also faced off in four additional competition components: the Digital Cyber Crime Scene Challenge from the Digital Forensic Consortium, the Cisco Networking Challenge, the Leidos Digital Forensics Challenge and a Mobile Application Challenge hosted by AT&T. The teams were scored on how quickly and effectively they established and maintained secure networks.

Team Big Sioux consists of Team Captain C/Maj Joshua Klosterman of Brandon, C/2^nd Lt Chris Dinnel, C/CMSgt Jaden Petersen and C/TSgt Sergeant Nathaniel Fleet, all from Lake Benton, MN, and C/2^nd Lt Laura Rudnik of Brookings. The team is coached by Capt. Shannon Hofer of Hendricks, MN, who is the Big Sioux Composite Squadron commander as well as the South Dakota Wing's Director of Information Technology and Web Security Administrator and mentored by Cadet Captain Tyler Gross of Volga.

CyberPatriot VII began last October with more than 2,100 teams from all 50 states, Canada and Department of Defense dependent schools in Europe and the Pacific. After two months of rigorous online challenges, the Open Division and All Service Division teams were divided into three tiers: Platinum, Gold and Silver. Team Big Sioux was placed in the Platinum Tier. The teams continued to compete within their tiers for state awards and advancement to the regional/category round. Only teams in the top Platinum tier were eligible to advance to national finals competition.

The South Dakota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, with squadrons in South Dakota in Sioux Falls, Brookings, Rapid City, Pierre, Custer and Spearfish has approximately 300 members, six light aircraft and 17 multi-purpose vehicles. These assets are available to federal, state and county governments, emergency responders and law enforcement agencies to perform search and rescue, homeland security, disaster relief, humanitarian assistance and counter-drug missions. For more information on SD CAP visit the wing’s website at http://sdcap.us and Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SDWingCAP. For general information on CAP visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com orwww.capvolunteernow.com.

BROOKINGS (KELO AM) “Every farmer and rancher has a story to tell, whether it’s working with their livestock, caring for crops, or raising kids in the time-honored lifestyle that comes with living in the country. This photo contest is going to be a fun way to showcase what happens in the daily lives of South Dakota’s farmers and ranchers,” said Ida Sander, co-chair of the SDFB Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee and rancher from Prairie City, S.D.Photographers can enter in one of three age categories: under age 18, between 18 and 35, and over 35. Up to three entries are allowed per person. A prize of $100 will be awarded in each category, and the overall winner will receive an additional $75 prize. 

To determine the top 10 photos in each category for final judging, photos will be posted on the SDFB Facebook page (Facebook.com/SDFarmBureau) and the number of “likes” received will determine the photo’s ranking. Official contest rules: The photo contest is open to any South Dakota resident. You do not necessarily need to be a Farm Bureau member to participate. Photos must be your own work.

Entering the contest gives your permission for South Dakota Farm Bureau and the Tri-State Livestock News to use your photo image at will.How to enter: Save the image as a high-resolution file and give the file a name that is the name of the photo. Email the photo as an attachment to: sdfbfyfr@gmail.com. In the email, include your full name, age, address, phone number and a photo caption that describes the image. This same email address can be used for any questions regarding the contest.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) -  Senate Bill One increases license plate fees beginning April first but in South Dakota you can pay fees due ninety days out.

Minnehaha County Treasurer Pam Nelson is unclear what to charge early payers hoping to avoid higher fees.

Nelson says in her opinion citizens would be eligible for the cheaper rate but she's waiting for an opinion from the Minnehaha County State’s Attorney.

Governor Daugaard has yet to sign the bill that was passed by both houses last week.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Now that the legislative session is over the Sioux Falls School District is moving ahead with plans to build the Spanish Immersion Elementary School.

Principal Tracy Vik  says interest is so strong a lottery is held to place just over a hundred students into four kindergarten classes.

Vik says there are currently 23 million jobs in the United State that require bilingual workers so you're offering your child greater opportunities.             

Jefferson Elementary will be razed this summer and a new school will be ready in the fall of 2016.

Some legislators had set their sights on limiting school district's capital outlay projects but two efforts in Pierre failed so Sioux Falls will proceed with a new school.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - An amazing amount of building permits issued in the first two weeks of March according to city’s chief of building permits Ron Bell.

He says commercial permits so far this month total over $62 million.  Bell says the city issued just uncer 400 residential permits this month worth over $10 million.

Bell says this month so fai is ahead of the last two months of March.             

Bell says major projects include an Avera neonatal intensive care unit remodel, a Good Sam expansion and a science center at Augustana.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) About 100 yard signs were taken from homes in Sioux Falls over the weekend that supported changing the school start date to after Labor Day.

Spokeswoman for the 'Voice In Local Control' group, Wendy McDonnel, says it's very disturbing about the motivation of the people who took the signs and how comfortable they felt going on private property to do it.  The signs aren't cheap. She says the group is out about $400.

Sioux Falls voters decide next month whether or not to change the school start date to after Labor Day. Mcdonnel says if you support the change vote 'no' next month.  

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO AM) - The South Dakota Army National Guard's 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade has received an alert order for possible mobilization to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Thirty-nine Soldiers from the Sioux Falls-based unit are scheduled for deployment in the February 2016 timeframe. While in Kuwait, the Soldiers will conduct force protection and security operations.

The unit will report to Fort Bliss, Texas, to complete several weeks of theater-specific training prior to deployment overseas. This will be the second mobilization for the 196th, which deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2010-2011.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Representative Kristi Noem says a House bill replacing Obamacare will be unveiled in several weeks.

Noem says an alternative health care bill is important if the Supreme Court rules federal exchanges as invalid.

Noem says not only will miillions be left without health insurance but they may also have to pay back the federal government.

She says the replacement measure retains some of the more popular aspects of Obamacare, such as keeping older children in parent's coverage, but focuses more on the patient and keeping rising costs under control.               

Noem says over 14.000 South Dakotans are enrolled in the federal health exchange.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles is telling county treasurers to charge higher license plate fees to owners trying to beat the April first increase.

Minnehaha County Auditor Pam Nelson says until she hears differently she’s going to follow the law.

Nelson says if someone's license expires at the end of May, she will honor the current fee until midnight March 31.  She says the treasurers in Brown and Pennington counties interpret the law in the same manner            

The measure increases license plate fees by twenty percent.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Senator John Thune is trying to block the EPA’s attempt to expand ozone regulations nationwide.

Thune says according to the National Association of Manufacturers lowering the smog standard will be costly.

The NAM study, says Thune, suggests that the EPA proposal could lead to 1.4 million fewer jobs and reduce the country's annual gross domestic product by $140 billion. 

Thune’s bill prevents the E-P-A from lowering the standard until 85 percent of the nation’s  counties now in violation become compliant with the existing standard.