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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities say an anonymous tip has led to the arrest of two more people in connection with the April robbery at a Sioux Falls gas station.
• Sioux Falls police have arrested 22-year-old Allison Armentrout and a 17-year-old old girl, who authorities suspect was the getaway driver in the robbery of the store at the Cubby's station. They're facing robbery charges.
• Nineteen-year-old Kelli Schlotterback and another 17-year-old girl turned themselves in days after the incident.
• Police say two people with semi-automatic handguns entered the store around 1 a.m. April 22. A third person waited by the door and a fourth one served as the getaway driver.
• Police say the group left the store with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police first reported the suspects were boys 13 and 14 years old.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A relief fund for western South Dakota ranchers who lost tens of thousands of farm animals in an early October blizzard is set to disburse the last of $5.4 million in donations.
• More than $4 million already has been doled out from the Rancher Relief Fund, to more than 600 ranchers, according to South Dakota Stockgrowers Association Executive Director Silvia Christen.
• "The last million dollars will be distributed here in the last weeks of May," she told The Associated Press. "Our intention is the fund will close on June 1."
• The fund was established by the Stockgrowers Association, the South Dakota Cattlemen's Association and the South Dakota Sheepgrowers Association in the wake of the Oct. 4-5 storm that dumped up to 4 feet of snow in western South Dakota, killing an estimated 43,000 cattle, sheep, horses and bison.
• Livestock losses in southwestern North Dakota were estimated at more than 1,000. A separate industry-led relief fund raised $163,000 for affected ranchers in that state and distributed the money in March, along with about $40,000 that was given to South Dakota ranchers.
• "(The blizzard) took its toll on western South Dakota and neighboring states," South Dakota Cattlemen's Association President Cory Eich said in a statement.

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