• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- State officials and law enforcement officers from across South Dakota are gathering in Pierre for an annual memorial service honoring fallen law officers.
• The service held Wednesday will pay tribute to two Rapid City police officers who were killed in August while performing what authorities have described as a routine stop. Office James Ryan McCandless, 28, and Officer Nick Armstrong, 27, died after a shootout with 22-year-old Daniel Tiger, who also died after the shootings.
• The service begins with a wreath-laying ceremony at the law enforcement me

morial located near the state Capitol Building. Gov. Dennis Daugaard will be the keynote speaker at a service in a church.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A state Health Department official says

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