Wednesday,  December 19, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 154 • 23 of 33 •  Other Editions

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should be expanded.
• Those are the recommendations that the Governor's Primary Care Task Force presented to Gov. Dennis Daugaard.
• The group was created in May to figure out how to train more health care providers for rural areas of the state.
• The 25-member task force has also recommended that Daugaard appoint an oversight committee to monitor progress and report to him, the Board of Regents and the Legislature.
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SD man gets jail for secret video recording

• WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- A 35-year-old Watertown man has been sentenced to 45 days in jail on charges he took a video without consent.
• Codington County deputy states attorney Patrick McCann tells KWAT radio that Fredrick Strasser recorded a 23-year-old woman through closed circuit TV over several months while she was Strasser's roommate.
• McCann says Strasser placed a video camera in a vent in the bathroom and recorded several tapes before being discovered by another roommate.
• Judge LeAnn Pierce sentenced Strasser to 45 days in jail, a $500 fine and restitution of $1,000 to the victim for rent she had paid.
• A lawyer for Strasser did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
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The Nature Conservancy sells ranch in western SD

• CUSTER, S.D. (AP) -- The Nature Conservancy says it has sold a 1,125-acre ranch in Custer County to a private buyer with safeguards to ensure the land remains in native prairie and maintains its ranching tradition.
• The Lame Johnny Creek Ranch is nestled between Custer State Park and Wind Cave National Park. The Nature Conservancy bought it a few years ago to make sure it was conserved, and began raising bison there in 2005 to help establish new herds on native prairies in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Mexico.
• Under the sale to the private buyer, the conservation group maintains a permanent easement restricting future development. The Nature Conservancy also will maintain its bison herd there for several years.
• The buyer and the sales price weren't immediately disclosed.
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