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the front porch of a private residence in Spearfish.
• Police Chief Pat Rotert says the statue that weighed as much as 300 pounds was recovered when authorities responded to a party disturbance call in Lawrence County over the weekend.
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Pine Beetle seminar scheduled next week in SD
• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Department of Agriculture is hosting a free seminar next week about treating mountain pine beetles in the Black Hills.
• The session will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, at the Hudson Hall in Spearfish. The goal of the seminar is to help landowners understand the various options for finding and treating infested trees.
• The seminar will be presented by forest entomologists Kurt Allen of the U.S. Forest Service and John Ball of South Dakota State University and the state Agriculture Department.
• Information will be presented on the how, when and why of treating infested trees this fall and winter. The workshop will also address how to identify trees attacked by mountain pine beetle and separate those from ones attacked by other pine beetles.
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SD red meat production in October up over the year
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Commercial red meat production in South Dakota totaled 107.4 million pounds in October, up 9 percent over the year.
• The Agriculture Department says pork production and sheep and lamb production in the state were up from October 2011.
• The commercial hog slaughter for South Dakota totaled 483,500 head during the month, compared to 446,600 the year before.
• Commercial sheep and lamb slaughter totaled 400 head in October, double last year's production.
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River interests still seeking help for low water
• ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Businesses that move products on the Mississippi River continue to seek the government's help as the river approaches historic lows.
• The Army Corps of Engineers on Friday began reducing the outflow from an upper Missouri River reservoir to ease drought conditions in that part of the country.
• The move will reduce the amount of water flowing into the Mississippi River and could mean further restrictions on barge traffic by early December, or perhaps even closure of the river from St. Louis to Cairo, Ill.
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