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livestock, calving and lambing.
• Warm temperatures spread across much of the state early in the week before overcast conditions and rainfall took over.
• Topsoil moisture is rated at 91 percent adequate to surplus, and 9 percent short. Subsoil moisture is 81 percent adequate to surplus, 17 percent short, and 2 percent very short.
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• FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Fort Pierre man is being held on a $100,000 cash bond on a charge of second-degree attempted murder in a weekend shooting.
• KGFX radio reports that bond was set Monday afternoon for 39-year-old Ronald Berens Jr. by Judge Leo Disburg. Berens remains at the Hughes County Jail. Stanley County States Attorney Tom P. Maher says alcohol is believed to have played a role in the incident.
• KCCR radio reports that Berens also faces other charges, including aggravated assault and reckless discharge of a firearm.
• Swanson says the shooting late Sunday afternoon began as a domestic violence incident at an apartment. Authorities allege Berens fired one shot inside the apartment and two more outside. One of the shots fired outside hit an occupied house.
• No one was hurt.
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