Saturday,  July 21, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 007 • 16 of 24 •  Other Editions

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Ford assaulted her and confined her to a bedroom in her own house by barricading the door. Ford reportedly fled the scene after other residents in the home heard sounds of a struggle.
• A sentencing date has not been set.
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SD man claims $50K scratch lottery prize

• HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has claimed a $50,000 top prize in the Montana Lottery's "Ruby Red 7s" scratch game.
• Lottery officials say Mark Hosier of Whitewood, S.D., bought his winning ticket at

the Loaf N' Jug in Fairview.
• Hosier works in the oil fields and was working in Fairview when he purchased the ticket.
• He claimed the prize on Wednesday. He says he plans to pay bills and go on a cruise.
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AP News in Brief
After baffling midnight movie shootings, sadness, shock and a search for clues in Colorado

• AURORA, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado suburb shocked and saddened by a deadly shooting spree at a midnight unveiling of the latest Batman movie grieved for the victims while authorities sought a motive and a safe way to reach clues inside the suspect's apartment, still apparently rigged with an elaborate booby-trap.
• Police grimly went door to door late Friday with a list of the victims killed in the worst mass shooting in the U.S. in recent years, notifying families who had held out anxious hope that their loved ones had been spared inside the packed theater near Denver.
• Twelve people died and 58 were injured in the attack early Friday, a few of those not by gunfire but in the chaos that ensued as the audience tried to flee the smoke-filled theater, authorities said. Among the wounded, 11 were listed in critical condition.
• The deceased victims included 23-year-old Micayla Medek, said Anita Busch, the cousin of Medek's father. The family took the news hard, but knowing her fate after waiting without word brought them some peace, Busch said.

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