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seeking comment Wednesday.
• The original list includes the deaths of Poor Bear's brother, Wilson Black Elk, and cousin, Ron Hard Heart, whose bodies were found in 1999 on reservation land across the border from Whiteclay, Neb.
• One reopened case has been successfully prosecuted.
• American Indian Movement activist Annie Mae Aquash's 1975 killing went unsolved for decades until Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud was convicted of first-degree murder in 2004 in federal court. John Graham was convicted in state court for the death in 2010.
• The FBI in 2000 issued a report detailing their investigations into the deaths of 57 people that occurred during the 1970s. The report said the bureau was right in closing the cases, even in situations where no one had been prosecuted for a death

deemed unnatural.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A 25-year-old Fort Thompson man has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for robbing a Sioux Falls casino last fall.
• Ryan John Scott was sentenced Wednesday for first-degree robbery, possession of a firearm with an altered serial number and grand-theft possession of a stolen firearm. The robbery led to an extensive search of the central Sioux Falls neighborhood.
• Prosecutors say Scott robbed a clerk at Ken's Corner Pub and Casino in September with a stolen handgun. The serial number on the gun was scratched off.
• Scott was in custody nearly a month later when authorities connected him to the robbery.
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• HURON, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Farmers Union is urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to open Conservation Reserve Program acres in South Dakota to haying and grazing to combat the lingering drought.
• Farmers Union President Doug Sombke says in a letter to Vilsack sent Wednesday that South Dakota has gone from severe and moderate drought levels to extreme and severe, resulting in a loss of haying capability and capacity.
• Sombke says that without sufficient feed, some cattle producers could be forced to sell parts of their herds.

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