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trip.
• The meet starts Friday.
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• HILL CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Officials have made a replica of the Potato Creek Johnny gold nugget, the largest ever found in western South Dakota's Black Hills.
• The gold that officials at the Black Hills Bronze Foundry in Hill City used to make the replica on

Wednesday came from the same area as the Icebox nugget, the second-largest found in the Black Hills.
• The new nugget will be sold at auction in September. Part of the proceeds will go toward building a secure case to display the original Potato Creek Johnny nugget at the Adams Museum in Deadwood. It has been valued at $500,000.
• Part of the auction proceeds will go to a program that helps wounded soldiers.
• Potato Creek Johnny found his namesake nugget in 1929. The Icebox nugget was found in 2010.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Texas woman charged with killing a South Dakota man a year and a half ago says she has psychiatric problems and has been victimized by a life of crime and drugs.
• Letisha Morgan, 34, is jailed in Dallas in the death of her boyfriend in Texas and

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