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Wild Card 2 winning tickets sold in 2 SD cities
• MOBRIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- Wild Card 2 lottery tickets worth about $6,000 have been sold in Mobridge and Sioux Falls.
• South Dakota lottery officials say both tickets matched all five white ball numbers in Wednesday's drawing but missed the Wild Card to win the game's second prize.
• The odds of winning it are one in about 127,000. Winners have about six months to claim the money.
• Wild Card 2 is played in the Dakotas, Montana and Idaho. The jackpot is at $240,000 for the next drawing, on Saturday.
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Dakotas students in Rome witness papal election
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Students from a North Dakota college who are studying in Rome got an up-close look at the historic election of the first pope from South America.
• "To see it in real life is incredible," said Shane Dukart, a business and Catholic studies student from Killdeer.
• Dukart is one of 20 students at the University of Mary in Bismarck studying at the school's campus in Rome this semester. They said in a statement that it is exciting to be in the city during an historic time for the Roman Catholic Church.
• "I knew this was going to be a great four months of my life," said Lindsey Stein, of Hankinson, who is majoring in nursing with a minor in Catholic studies. "Being in the heart of the church and being with my fellow brother and sister saints that are all over this city during this historic time for the church."
• Cardinals on Wednesday elected Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to replace the retired Pope Benedict XVI. The new Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope and the first non-European chosen since the Middle Ages.
• His election is recognition of the changing face of Catholicism, Bishop Paul Swain, of the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, S.D., said during a news conference, the Argus Leader newspaper reported.
• "The growth of the church is in Latin and South America, and Africa and Asia, particularly," he said. "It's a recognition on the part of the cardinals, many of whom are from Europe . that it's important that there be a pope who understands the dy (Continued on page 38)
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