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• Nineteen-year-old Taylor White Buffalo of Winner was indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this month in the April 13 death of Ernest White Buffalo Chief. Court documents show he is charged with second-degree murder and assault with a dangerous weapon.
• The Rapid City Journal reports that the case is scheduled for trial in July. White Buffalo could face life in prison if convicted.
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3 males hold up Sioux Falls convenience store
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls police are looking for three males who held up a convenience store.
• Authorities say the suspects in their late teens or early twenties walked into a Shop N Cart store shortly before 3:30 a.m. Friday and demanded money from the clerk. Police say two of the suspects were armed with handguns.
• The suspects fled on foot with an undetermined amount of money and alcohol. Police say no one was hurt.
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AP News in Brief
Blind Chinese activist leaves Beijing hospital, prepares to depart for the United States
• BEIJING (AP) -- A blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village set off a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington was hurriedly taken from a hospital to the airport Saturday to board a plane for the United States.
• Chen Guangcheng told The Associated Press that he had left the hospital where he'd been staying and was at Beijing's international airport. He said he expected to leave on a flight late Saturday afternoon for Newark, New Jersey, outside New York City.
• "Thousands of thoughts are surging to my mind," Chen said by phone from the airport, sounding hurried but calm. To his supporters and others in the activist community, Chen expressed gratitude and indicated that he hoped to return.
• "I am requesting a leave of absence, and I hope that they will understand," he said.
• The departure of Chen and his family to the United States would mark the conclusion of nearly a month of uncertainty and years of mistreatment by local authori (Continued on page 34)
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