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South Dakota.
• Association vice president Bob Nelson Jr. says the actor's representative in Deadwood had heard the association needed a vehicle and contacted Costner. Costner, who owns a casino in Deadwood, then offered the bus.
• Nelson tells the Rapid City Journal that the bus will be helpful, as the association travels often to tournaments on the eastern part of the state.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The last 46 of the 64 Soldiers from the South Dakota Army National Guard's 139th Brigade Support Battalion are back in the United States.

• The soldiers arrived Friday evening in Fort Hood, Texas, after serving a nearly yearlong deployment to Iraq and Kuwait. The other 18 members of the 139th returned home a month earlier.
• The 139th is comprised of soldiers from the Brookings, Redfield, Watertown, Miller, Mitchell, Rapid City and Sioux Falls areas. They deployed in July with a mission to provide supply, maintenance and transportation support to U.S. forces.

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