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the Black Hills Advertising Federation guided students in an introductory business class at Oglala Lakota College to create a suicide awareness campaign. The campaign will work with the Sweetgrass Project, the Oglala Sioux Tribe's suicide prevention program.
• The Rapid City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/KFnhzu) that the campaign will start next fall with posters and television and radio spots to run on channels available on the reservation.
• In late 2009, the tribal president declared a state of emergency on the reservation after law enforcement officers responded to 96 suicides or suicide attempts in 10 months.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota legislative panel has decided to let more lawmakers travel to out-of-state meetings beginning in July.
• Because of state government's budget problems last year, hardly any legislators got to travel out of state.
• But the Legisla

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