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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana-led effort to help replace cattle lost by South Dakota ranchers during a strange fall snowstorm is getting ready to deliver replacement animals.

Columbus landed on the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola convinced that these were the outer islands of China.

Shane and Pat Montalban joined Tom Egelhoff on his Open for Business Radio Show to talk about the Hydraulic Fracturing process used in oil drilling in Montana and South Dakota.

More than 120 school districts in 20 states, mostly in the western region of the US, now have three-day weekends because of state budget cuts to education. Now the Irene-Wakonda School District in southeastern South Dakota is the latest to eliminate Friday classes, adding to the 25 percent of South Dakota schools that have already adopted a four-day week.

Tourists watching the Old West show in Hill City, South Dakota last Friday got a real taste of the mayhem associated with that time period when live ammo began spraying into the crowd. Investigators  aren’t sure if real bullets somehow got into the actor’s guns, or if it was  shrapnel from blanks that wounded three spectators seriously enough to be taken to the hospital in  ambulances.