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Makers of anti-warlord video presenting in SD
• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- A group that created a popular Internet video about the brutal African warlord Joseph Kony is coming to South Dakota.
• The group Invisible Children is scheduled to give a presentation at Black Hills State University next week. The nonprofit organization was founded to try to end the Lord's Resistance Army, which is led by Joseph Kony. Invisible Children created a 30-minute film called Kony2012 that went viral on the Internet.
• The Sept. 10 presentation is free and open to the public. The presentation is sponsored by BHSU's Mass Communications Department and student newspaper, the Jacket Journal.
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Firefighters making headway against Neb. Blazes
NELSON LAMPE,Associated Press
• OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Some firefighters who have battled the western Nebraska and South Dakota wildfires for nearly a week are being sent home, a fire official said Monday.
• The three fires have burned nearly 260 square miles, but firefighters have made considerable progress on the Douthit and West Ash fires near Chadron, Neb., said information spokesman Neal Kephart.
• "We're getting a good handle on those fires and releasing personnel and equipment," Kephart said. The Douthit fire was 99 percent contained and the West Ash (Continued on page 20)
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