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vive, so persisting dryness will continue to stress the state's fishery.
• "If the drought continues to be this severe and we don't start replenishing some of the water supply in our lakes and rivers, then things are likely to get worse in some of them," he said.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The state of South Dakota and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe are teaming up to improve the state's sex offender registry.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says the state and tribe have entered into an

agreement under which data from the tribe's offender registry will be submitted electronically into the state's registry. Jackley says the agreement is one of the first in the nation.
• Tribal Chairman Kevin Keckler says protecting children "is of critical importance."
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A prisoner who escaped from a transport van in southeastern South Dakota last month has been spotted in Nebraska but is still on the run.
• Authorities say 31-year-old Oscar Herrera-Menjivar was last seen in the Omaha, Neb., area on Sunday. They say he has been trying to contact people he knows for help.
• Herrera-Menjivar was being transported from Florida to Nebraska to be prosecuted on a sex crime charge when he escaped in the Spencer, S.D., area on July 14, when the transport bus stopped at a convenience store off Interstate 90 and a guard fell asleep.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A prisoner who escaped from a transport van in southeastern South Dakota last month has been spotted in Nebraska but is still on the run.
• Authorities say 31-year-old Oscar Herrera-Menjivar was last seen in the Omaha, Neb., area on Sunday. They say he has been trying to contact people he knows for help.

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