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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
Will meet the woman who played a critical role in organizing the first Remember Rally seven years ago
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
Three men were arrested and another three cited early Sunday morning after a fight broke out in the street by the Long Branch Saloon.
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
Crime took place in the early morning hours on Sunday
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
Potential McCain running mate calls Democrat’s approach ‘minimalist’
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
Fewer than 40 percent of fifth-graders and eighth-graders statewide met or exceeded scoring benchmarks for their age and just shy of 43 percent of high school students did.
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
Event will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 13
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
A spaghetti supper fundrasier for the Windom Area Schools’ 2009 Washington, D.C., trip will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the American Lutheran Church, Windom.
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08/19/2008 09:30 AM
MEDORA — At the age of 58, Bob Jones is accomplishing one of his life’s dreams.
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08/19/2008 09:50 AM
The Gadberry home next to Interstate 29 north of Hillsboro, N.D., is known for its holiday light displays.
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08/19/2008 09:10 AM
College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
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08/19/2008 08:00 AM
Eric Christensen will claim during his criminal trial that he had permission to spend his former employer’s money on personal items, his attorney revealed Monday during the first day of proceedings at the Davison County Courthouse in Mitchell.
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
Iowa Lakes Regional Water project could provide water for approximately 431 rural sites in southeast Jackson and southwest Martin counties
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08/19/2008 12:00 AM
WHS junior a member of 2008 All-State Men's Choir
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08/18/2008 10:00 AM
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Courthouse protests have caused a brief interruption in the preliminary hearing of three teenagers charged in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant in a small Pennsylvania town.
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08/18/2008 09:58 AM
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - Attorneys for Texas' child welfare authorities and the parents of eight children from a polygamist sect agreed Monday to try negotiating a settlement before beginning new custody hearings.
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Ventura's Colorful Career |
08/18/2008 01:00 PM
Jesse Ventura may become a judge.
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08/18/2008 12:00 AM
GOP duo will face off in Sept. 9 primary; winner will challenge Walz
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Scenes from Civil War DaysUnion troops march down the hill to the battlefield during Civil War Days Saturday afternoon in Pipestone.
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08/18/2008 12:00 AM
Presentation by leading railroad authority scheduled
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08/18/2008 12:00 AM
Approximately two pounds of marijuana was seized from residence, along paraphernalia
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08/18/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota governor pitted against Evan Bayh
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08/18/2008 12:00 AM
Peyten Petersen was named the champion premier showman at the Pipestone County Fair in Pipestone last week, with John Langholz earning reserve honors.
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08/18/2008 12:00 AM
Rep. Tim Walz visited Smith Trucking on Saturday, where he met with truck fleet owners and operators from southwestern Minnesota who are members of the Minnesota Trucking Association.
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08/17/2008 06:00 PM
BOISE, Idaho – The former Fargo man who admits kidnapping two northern Idaho children and killing one of them wrote a letter to his mother blaming society for feeding the evil in his heart, a prosecution witness testified Friday.
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08/17/2008 06:05 PM
FARGO, N.D. - As a high school student, Jerry Fauske remembers looking up from the stoop of his Sioux Falls, S.D., home and seeing them.
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08/17/2008 06:20 PM
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08/17/2008 06:20 PM
BEMIDJI - A Boy River man is dead after being thrown from his motorcycle in an apparent collision with a timber wolf at about 9 a.m. Friday, according to a news release from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office.
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08/17/2008 06:45 PM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture could declare Minnesota a split state for bovine tuberculosis control within weeks, U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson said Saturday.
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08/16/2008 05:30 PM
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) - An early Saturday morning fire killed five children and two adults, but three youths were able to escape and were being treated for burns.
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08/16/2008 05:35 PM
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush warned Russia on Saturday against trying to pry loose two separatist regions in Georgia and said Moscow must end military operations in the West-leaning democracy that once was part of the Soviet empire.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man dubbed the "S&M Svengali" and ordered a retrial in a sensational case that involved mutilation and humiliation.
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08/16/2008 04:00 PM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life," the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
Swaney, 38, of Sioux Falls, S.D., was convicted of murder — three first-degree charges and two second-degree charges — early Friday morning.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
Jeffers Petroglyphs offers daily programs, guided tours
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Harvest Mass scenesMore than 400 people attended the 19th annual Harvest Mass, hosted by Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Wilmont Friday morning at the Jim and Joan Joens farm near Wilmont.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
“We’re trying something new this year. We’re hoping it will streamline the process,” said Paul Besel, Prairie’s principal.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
National political conventions cost millions of dollars — some from the federal treasury — but even many fiscally conservative delegates don't mind.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
Douglas Williams is headed to the Democratic National Convention in part to honor his grandmother.
In fact, the University of Minnesota Morris student said, he can go to Denver in part because of what his grandmother did.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
Troopers in southwest Minnesota arrested nine impaired drivers during a Department of Public Safety (DPS) Safe & Sober impaired-driving campaign conducted throughout July.
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08/16/2008 12:00 AM
SIBLEY, Iowa — Former State Senator and Representative Rich Vande Hoef presented Hawkeye Point Committee chairman Mike Earll with an engraved copy of the Official State Proclamation designating Hawkeye Point as Iowa’s highest elevation during the Hawkeye Point Community Appreciation Picnic Wednesday night.
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08/15/2008 12:00 PM
MITCHELL, S.D. - Rod Titze did not convince the Mitchell City Council to give him $13,000 for a lawn bowling course Thursday night at City Hall, but he did convince one council member to make a personal pledge of $1,000.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
Gov. Tim Pawlenty hinted Thursday that lawmakers next year may face a state budget deficit of $500 million to $1.5 billion.
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08/15/2008 12:15 PM
BEIJING - Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.
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08/15/2008 01:00 PM
WASHINGTON - The International Olympic Committee should punish Russia by moving the 2014 Winter Olympics out of Sochi, Russia, the co-chairs of the congressional House Georgia Caucus said.
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08/15/2008 01:05 PM
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - A reluctant Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Friday he signed a cease-fire agreement with Russia and declared in the presence of the chief U.S. diplomat that the West had behaved in ways that invited the invasion.
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08/15/2008 01:45 PM
MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
Stan Nelson — I have a coin that I sometimes carry around in my pocket. On one side of the coin it says, “I am powerless, but I am not helpless.” I have never felt so powerless as I did on May 20, 2001 … When I was told that my daughter Carrie was dead it was as if the blood was drained from my body. I went numb. I sat on the couch and stared.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
Nan Karr Kaufenberg — It is difficult to describe the overwhelming impact my daughter Carrie’s death by murder has had on my life. The loss of Carrie has cast over everything I think, do and say and has affected my life decisions, my view of the world and my interactions with other people.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
Katy Nelson- As a child, my sister operated nearly entirely on her emotional whims. She was a sensitive little girl who couldn’t stand to feel pain, emotionally or physically, and she couldn’t stand to see other people or creatures feel pain. Carrie laughed and cried frequently, and fluctuated between feeling fine and being upset quickly.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
LUVERNE — After more than six hours of deliberations, jurors returned guilty verdicts in the case of murdered Blue Mounds State Park worker Carrie Nelson.
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08/15/2008 01:10 PM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An argument between two debate coaches that was caught on video was not the sharp-witted dialogue typically associated with college debate teams. Instead, the two traded profanity-laced barbs and one of them pulled down his shorts, exposing his underwear.
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08/15/2008 12:45 PM
LONDON (AP) - A British man has been banned from visiting his girlfriend's home after neighbors complained about noisy sex, a local official said Thursday.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
JACKSON — Problems with the county’s 2008 Abstract of Taxes prompted the Jackson County Board of Commissioners to authorize the investigation of its auditor/treasurer Tuesday.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
PIPESTONE — The War Between the States will reignite, this time for entertainment and education only, during Pipestone Civil War Days Saturday and Sunday at the Song of Hiawatha Pageant Grounds near the Pipestone National Monument.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — Students are beginning to gear up for the new school year, with practices already under way for the upcoming fall sports season. For Svenja Wieser, 16, it’s particularly exciting as she anticipates meeting new people and trying new things.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
WORTHINGTON — The American Red Cross will offer an infant/child CPR class and first aid class at its office in the lower level of the Octagon Building at 716 Oxford St.
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08/15/2008 12:00 AM
LUVERNE — Once again, the waiting begins for the family and friends of Carrie Nelson, the Blue Mounds State Park worker killed while on duty in May 2001. Her loved ones have waited more than seven years for someone to be brought to justice for her murder.
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08/14/2008 11:00 AM
LUVERNE - Randy Swaney, who denies murdering Blue Mound State Park worker Carrie Christine Nelson on May 20, 2001, will take the stand in his own defense today.
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08/14/2008 12:30 PM
LUVERNE - The defense has rested in the trial of Randy Swaney, accused of murdering Blue Mound State Park worker Carrie Christine Nelson on May 20, 2001.
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08/14/2008 12:15 PM
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge is allowing 10 women detained in an immigration raid at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville to go home.
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08/14/2008 12:00 PM
FARGO, N.D. — When a 13-year-old Minnesota boy was banned from church after parishioners complained about his behavior, it exposed a painful truth so politically incorrect that some people feel guilty just saying it out loud: Some autistic children can be annoying and disruptive in public.
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08/14/2008 12:05 PM
When the sheriff asked Perham veterinarian Dr. Bill Rose to review the file on accused animal abuse suspect Kathy Jo Bauck, he wasn’t surprised.
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08/14/2008 12:25 PM
The Frazee School Board voted on Monday to bring in legal counsel to help validate a petition challenging a $1,000-per-student levy voters approved last fall.
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08/14/2008 12:00 AM
Area farmers continue to scout after insecticide treatment
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08/14/2008 12:00 AM
String students to show off skills in concert tonight
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08/14/2008 12:00 AM
Closing arguments expected in Swaney trial
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Stormy horizonA storm front with dark, low hanging clouds moves over the Slayton area, prompting officials to evacuate the Murray County Fair as seen Wednesday afternoon from just north of Slayton on U.S. 59. Golf-ball-sized hail and downed trees were reported in the Lake Park, Iowa, area, but otherwise no significant damage reports had been received by area law enforcement agencies.
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08/14/2008 12:00 AM
Meyer: There can be no barrier to health care for those in need of testing or treatment for tuberculosis
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Lookin' goodLaker 4-H club member Dusty Lingen, Woodstock, grooms his calf Wednesday afternoon in anticipation of today’s Fall Calf show at the Murray County Fair in Slayton.
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08/13/2008 10:06 AM
OUTSIDE GORI, Georgia (AP) - Russian tanks rolled into the crossroads city of Gori on Wednesday then thrust deep into Georgian territory, violating the truce designed to end the six-day war that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the Georgian landscape.
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08/13/2008 10:04 AM
BEIJING (AP) - A daily double. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th and 11th career gold medals — and five world records in five events at the Beijing Games.
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08/13/2008 10:07 AM
BEIJING — After the first few days of the Beijing Games, some cracks have appeared in China’s perfect party — empty seats at the venues, disappointing crowds at the Olympic grounds, ticket scalping, a lack of buzz around the city and even official acknowledgment of trickery during the opening ceremony.
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08/13/2008 10:05 AM
FRAZEE, Minn. – No charges will be filed in the case of an angry e-mail sent to the Frazee Police Department in response to the shooting of a bear in July.
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08/13/2008 03:10 PM
Actor Joe Kudla, known as "Snot" from the "Puke and Snot" comedy team that entertained crowds at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival for more than three decades, died Monday at the age of 58 in his northeast Minneapolis home. They also have performed in the Bemidji area.
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08/13/2008 01:40 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A gunman entered the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters Wednesday and shot the party chairman, who was hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said.
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
Jackson County commissioners opt to demolish old facility
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
Defense finally gets a turn in Tuesday proceedings
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Meet me at The MeadowsResident Dorothy Fenstermacher shows off an antique newspaper holder that was her husband’s great-grandfather’s and thought to be from the mid 1800s at the first-ever Meadows Fair Tuesday afternoon in Worthington.
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
New policies regarding immoral communication between students and teachers within the district have been set into place.
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
Four-day event kicks off this morning
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
Events begin with a community concert featuring Rock A Cappella from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday.
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
The O’Brien County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a burglary of an acreage southeast of Hartley.
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
The home of Ngoc Le, 1404 Third Ave., is this week’s Flower Power Yard of the Week.
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
The Minnesota Highway Safety Center is offering four-hour refresher 55+ driver improvement courses: 6 to 10 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Worthington Country Club; and 6 to 10 p.m. Aug. 21 at Kemna Asa Auto, Jackson.
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08/13/2008 12:00 AM
A public comment period for a report on water pollution in the West Fork Des Moines River and Heron Lake continues through Sept. 10.
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A tribute to GrandpaAlison Pospisil, 9 of Worthington, shows off the red, 10-inch-plus ponytail she is donating to Locks of Love Tuesday afternoon at the Hair Gallery in Worthington. Alison, whose grandfather, Joe Pospisil, died of cancer in January, wanted to make the donation to help youths who lose their hair as a result of cancer treatments.
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08/12/2008 02:00 PM
NEW YORK — “I’m having ‘em, so I wanna raise ‘em.” That’s the philosophy that led Jenna Kagan to stop working when her daughter was born nine years ago. Two sons soon followed, and their mother remains firm in her belief that staying home with them is best.
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08/12/2008 02:35 PM
WADENA - Armed with a cell phone and recorder, and secretly wired to tape his boss’s instructions, Jason Smith was prepared to capture evidence against the Minnesota woman he was investigating for animal abuse.
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08/12/2008 02:15 PM
PIERRE, S.D. — State Game, Fish and Parks officials said Monday that they have no intention of protecting wolves found in the state — if the animals are removed from federal protections.
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08/12/2008 02:25 PM
PIERRE, S.D. - Stanley County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a pit bull after it attacked two people in Fort Pierre.
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08/12/2008 02:15 PM
SEATTLE – A vacationing, off-duty Seattle police officer involved in the weekend shooting of a motorcycle gang member in South Dakota has been disciplined at least twice in past incidents.
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
Event will promote future plans for Iowa's high point
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
Senior living facility celebrates with luncheon
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
Karelis: “It’s critical that the older kids get into the courses they desire, because (they’re working hard for college).”
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
Charges were filed Monday against a Rushmore man accused of criminal sexual contact with two children.
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
Eleven months after a confidential informant purchased methamphetamine from Christine Kay Kirchner in Slayton, she was sentenced in Murray County District Court.
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
Crafts, demolition and the Killer Hayseeds are just a few of the many highlights of the Cottonwood County Fair, starting today and ending Sunday.
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
The 33rd annual National Old-Time Country & Bluegrass Festival & Contest will begin Aug. 25 and continue through Aug. 31 at the Plymouth County Fairgrounds.
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08/12/2008 12:00 AM
The annual meeting of Worthington Okabena Windsurfers will be 5:30 p.m. today at the home of Dave and Gail Holinka, 200 Lake St.
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