Poodle puppies pilfered from Mitchell pet store
• MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) -- Police in Mitchell say someone pilfered two poodle puppies from a local pet store.
• Authorities say someone broke into Ed's Pet World early Tuesday and took the poodles worth nearly $600 each. Business owner Ed Anderson says the masked thief also took cash from the store. The thefts were captured by the store's surveillance cameras.
• Anderson says the eight-week-old puppies were just weaned from their mother, and he worries the thief won't properly care for them.
• A $250 reward is being offered in the case.
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ND town reacts after sex offender moves in from SD
• HANKINSON, N.D. (AP) -- The City Council in the southeastern North Dakota community of Hankinson has given initial approval to a sex offender ordinance after an offender moved to town from South Dakota.
• The proposal would prohibit a registered sex offender from living within 800 feet of a school, child care facility, park, playground or other place where children congregate.
• An offender also would be barred from loitering within 400 feet of a "child safety zone."
• The Richland County Sheriff's Office says a high-risk sex offender who served 15 years in South Dakota's State Penitentiary for assaulting a minor in Brookings County recently moved to Hankinson. Authorities say the 54-year-old man refused to undergo sex offender treatment while in prison.
• The ordinance could get final approval May 5.
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Pine Ridge man honored for solar energy projects
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The man behind a renewable energy company on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota will be one of ten White House honorees this week.
• Ten people on Thursday will be honored at a White House Solar Summit for their efforts to expand the production and use of solar energy.
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