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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The Rapid City Police Department is marking the one-year anniversary of the death of two officers with a silent memorial.
• Starting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, the Rapid City Police Department Honor Guard will stand in silent memorial to honor Officers Ryan McCandless and Nick Armstrong. The two officers were shot last year during what authorities described as a routine stop. A third officer, Tim Doyle, was injured.
• The public is invited to pay their respects at the site. Officers will keep watch over the site until after dark. There will not be a ceremony or public address.
• Chief Steve Allender says in a statement that there are no words that can ex

press the loss of the two officers, so the department will remain silent to honor the two men.
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• DENVER (AP) -- An order restricting access to caves and old mines on national forest and grasslands in five states is being extended, so that a bat-killing fungus won't spread.
• White-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats in the U.S.
• The fungus that causes it hasn't been detected in Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas yet. Regional Forester Daniel Jirón said Wednesday he is extending an order restricting access to U.S. Forest Service caves and abandoned mines in the five states for 12 more months, so that humans won't inadvertently spread the fungus to bats.
• The order covers about 30,000 abandoned mines and hundreds of caves in the five states.
• It includes some exemptions for active members of the National Speleological Society and Cave Research Foundation for conservation-related activities.
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