Thursday,  May 10, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 301 • 24 of 32 •  Other Editions

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rains, cooler weather and the start of spring green-up.
• The restrictions had prohibited open fires and banned smoking in most areas.
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• Rapid City authorities search for missing juvenile
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City area authorities are searching for a 17-year-old boy who escaped custody after being taken to a hospital for an evaluation.
• The hospital notified the Pennington County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday that the teenager had fled on foot. Officers who responded discovered that

the boy had entered two rooms at an assisted living center and taken an undisclosed amount of cash from one of them.
• Authorities say the boy had been held at the Western South Dakota Juvenile Services Center on a probation hold for a nonviolent offense.
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AP News in Brief
First president to endorse gay marriage: Making history, or flowing along with it?

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- He gave no speech, issued no call to action. He spoke of changing alongside the nation's people, not of leading them into uncharted territory. He made sure to say what so many so passionately believe -- that states should decide such issues on their own.

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