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ture's Executive Board decided Monday that the state's improved financial condition will allow the travel policy to be loosened a bit.
• Any lawmaker who is a member of a committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures or the Council of State Governments will be allowed one state-financed trip a year to attend meetings of those organizations.
• Lawmakers who are retiring at the end of this year or lose a primary election will not be reimbursed for any travel.
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• MADISON, S.D. (AP) -- A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate is expected to plead guilty but mentally ill to a sec

ond-degree murder charge at a Tuesday afternoon hearing.
• Carl Ericsson has been charged in the Jan. 31 killing of retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson. Johnson was shot twice in the face after answering his door.
• An arrest affidavit suggests the incident might have been sparked by a decades-old grudge stemming back to when Johnson and Ericsson were students at Madison High.
• Ericsson pleaded

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