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For sale: Small town in South Dakota, bar included

RAPID CITY, S.D.

A businessman is selling his small, southeastern South Dakota town for $400,000.

Lance Benson is the sole owner of Swett, an unincorporated hamlet in Bennett County about two hours southeast of Rapid City. Benson, who owns a traveling-concessions business, put the town on the market last week.

Benson told the Rapid City Journal the town used to have a population of 40 people decades ago, as well as a post office, a few houses and a grocery store.

Now, the town is just a bar, workshop, three trailers and a house. He and his wife still live there.

He says ownership of the town concentrated to a single person over the years. Benson bought it in 1998.

Maryland woman says pot came with fast-food order

FREDERICK, Md.

A Frederick, Md., woman says she was served a bag of marijuana with her fast-food order at a Sonic drive-through.

The Frederick News-Post reported Friday that Carla McFarland said she found the little plastic bag in a container along with the French fries she bought Wednesday in Frederick.

McFarland said she complained to a manager and called police. She said a manager later told her an employee had been fired after saying the bag must have slipped from her apron.

Franchise owner John Louderback confirmed that the employee no longer works there. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said it’s investigating the matter.

McFarland isn’t laughing. She says her two young children were in the car, within easy reach of the bag.

Associated Press