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allegiance to the U.S. They originally came from countries as far as Somalia and the Ukraine.
• The ceremony was the culmination of a year of work in which the aspiring citizens studied the Constitution and U.S. government and learned the Pledge of Allegiance. At the conclusion, the new citizens were given the opportunity to register to vote and get a U.S. passport.
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• MADISON, S.D. (AP) -- A 74-year-old South Dakota man who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to fatally shooting his long-ago classmate in a grudge reaching back decades is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.

• Carl Ericsson of Watertown was charged in the Jan. 31 killing of retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson. Johnson was shot twice in the face after answering his door at his home in Madison.
• Ericsson pleaded guilty but mentally ill last month to a second-degree murder charge, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
• An arrest affidavit suggests the incident might have been sparked by a decades-old grudge that

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