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  • Clinton campaign presses on with visits to 3 states today (AP)

    Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) campaigns in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, May 7, 2008. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)AP - Hillary Clinton is pushing on in her race for the Democratic White House bid, despite calls to drop out. She has events scheduled today in the upcoming primary states of Oregon, South Dakota and West Virginia. Barack Obama will be in Washington today.



  • Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x
    of a report by the US Geological Survey on the Bakken Formation. This is an oil field covering 200,000 square miles and underlying parts of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. A geologist who began surveying the field, before dying in
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South Dakota became the United States fortieth state on November 2, 1889, together with North Dakota. The capital is Pierre. Dakota is a Sioux word meaning "allies". Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota, as is the prairie that was made famous in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. News anchor Tom Brokaw was born and raised in South Dakota. The Prairie State ranks 16th in land size totaling 75,896 square miles.

State web site www.state.sd.us

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