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hours Monday until it was time to go to work.
• He threw on two pairs of pants, two T-shirts, "at least three jackets," two hats, a pair of gloves, the "thickest socks you'd probably ever find" and boots, and trudged to the train stop in his South Side neighborhood that took him to within a few blocks of the library where he works.
• "I never remember it ever being this cold," said Davis, 51. "I'm flabbergasted."
• Only a few hardy souls braved the cold on the Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, normally a busy pedestrian area. Many people downtown used the extensive heated skyway system, where it is warm enough to walk around in office attire.
• Nearly all stores on the skyway were open as usual. Jersey Devil Pizza & Wings was not.
• "Apologies ... We are East Coast wimps. Too cold! Stay safe, see you Tuesday," read a sign taped to the door.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- An inmate who didn't return to a work release center in Sioux Falls is back at the South Dakota Women's Prison in Pierre.
• Courtney Mitchell turned herself in to law enforcement in Sioux Falls last week and appeared in court on a second-degree escape charge.
• The 25-year-old didn't return to the Minnehaha County Correction Center after a shift at her work release job on Dec. 27.
• She's serving a four-year sentence for grand theft out of Lincoln County and a one-year sentence for possession of a controlled substance in Minnehaha County.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City man is going to prison on a 45-year sentence for shooting to death another man.
• Charles Birds Head was earlier convicted of manslaughter for killing 33-year-old Eustacio Maruffo last January in the parking lot of the South Dakota Rose Inn.
• Circuit Judge Wally Eklund sentenced the 31-year-old on Monday to 45 years for that crime. At the same time, he'll also serve two years for possession of a controlled weapon, 25 years for distribution of a controlled substance to a minor and five years for possession.
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