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allows the Lakota loggers to remove 20,000 beetle-infested trees from Custer State Park. For each tree cut down, the crew makes $10. So far, the Ventimiglias have put in $30,000 of their own money to front training and equipment costs.
• The Lakota loggers are expected to continue felling the trees until they stop for the summer. Ventimiglia said he hopes to bring the loggers to Aspen to cut infested trees on the property of a ski company, allowing the loggers to stay employed over the summer while also collecting more wood to build wooden homes.
• Shark, who grows such things as buffalo berries and Indian potatoes on the land, said history has proven the beetles won't go away on their own but can be contained through hard work.
• "If we get a thousand trees down in the foreseeable future, we'll make a differ

ence," he said. "We'll feel good."
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City man has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault in a stabbing incident that sent one man to the hospital.
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