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Black River's bottoms and the Van Loon State Wildlife Area, making the project more palatable, Clean Wisconsin attorney Katie Nekola said.
• According to a PSC staff memo, state Department of Transportation officials have said they won't grant development permits along the Great River Road National Scenic Byway unless the line is buried. They said the line would impact the view from the road.
• DOT spokeswoman Peg Schmitt said the agency is still reviewing the PSC's approval and had no comment.

• Carlsgaard said burying the line could cost $25 million per mile.
• "Hopefully," he said, "the DOT will sit down with us and we'll go through those things and we'll come to an agreement to obtain a permit."
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• MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A South Dakota man faces federal charges in two Twin Cities bank robberies early this year.
• Forty-four-year-old William Roy St. John of Sisseton, S.D., was indicted on two counts of bank robbery. The indictment was unsealed after St. John's initial court appearance earlier this week.
• The indictment alleges St. John stole about $3,800 from a US Bank in Bloomington on Jan 2. Two days later, St. John is accused of stealing about $5,500 from a Wells Fargo Bank in Arden Hills.
• Prosecutors say surveillance images from both banks determined the suspect

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