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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- No criminal charges will be filed in last month's death of an infant at a rural Mitchell day care facility, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said Thursday.
• Three-month-old Brooklyn Howard died June 19 at the rural Davison County day care.
• Jackley and Davison County prosecutor Pat Smith issued a statement Thursday saying that another young child in the day care "contributed to the infant's death."
• Jackley told The Associated Press late Thursday that under South Dakota law, prosecutors can't charge a child under 10 or transfer the case to adult court, and the

contributing child in this case was "considerably younger than 10."
• The cause of the child's death wasn't disclosed.
• Jackley said there was no finding of criminal activity on the part of the day care.
• "Avenues outside of the criminal process are being discussed," he added.
• Jackley and Smith in their statement said the dead child's family has cooperated in the investigation and were "cleared of any culpability" at the beginning.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A woman accused of using a bomb threat to rob a Sioux Falls bank says she'd been kidnapped and forced to commit the crime.
• But police say her story doesn't match the evidence.
• Michelle Bock was charged Thursday in federal court with bank robbery. The Argus Leader reports the 39-year-old Bock says two men kidnapped her, strapped a bomb to her chest and forced her to walk into the First Premier Bank with a note that read, "This is a robbery."
• The Sioux City, Iowa, woman got away with $14,000. She tells police the men took the money, but officials say she deposited nearly $3,000 into her personal bank account after the robbery. Officials say she didn't report being kidnapped until later.
• A public defender was not available for comment.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota woman has pleaded guilty to theft from an Indian tribal organization.

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