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line of duty in that state's history. The North Dakota service paid tribute to Bismarck Police Sgt. Steve Kenner, who was shot last July while responding to a domestic disturbance, and Burleigh County Sheriff's Deputy Bryan Sleeper, who suffered a heart attack at the scene of an arrest last September.
• The annual services in both states were held a week early because relatives and friends are going to Washington, D.C., next week for a national memorial service.
• In South Dakota, more than 100 officers and others gathered on a sunny day as a wreath was placed at the memorial near the Capitol. An honor guard of seven officers carrying rifles then fired three rounds apiece.
• Daugaard noted that last year's ceremony featured a special tribute to Johnson, the prison guard, who was killed just weeks before that ceremony. Much of the governor's speech Wednesday focused on the two Rapid City officers.

• McCandless and Armstrong died of injuries after being shot while performing what authorities have described as a routine stop in Rapid City, a community on the eastern edge of the Black Hills. Officer Tim Doyle, 39, also was shot but returned to work a few weeks later.
• According to a report, the officers stopped a group of people who appeared to be intoxicated, and Daniel Tiger pulled a gun and began shooting. Tiger was shot by the officers and died later.
• Daugaard said Ti

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