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• But Steele said he believes Daugaard's primary endorsements will cause friction within the Republican Party during next year's legislative session and the 2014 election.
• Daugaard also has endorsed House Speaker Val Rausch of Big Stone City in a Senate primary against Sen. Tim Begalka of Clear Lake. In other Senate primaries, the governor is backing Sen. Bruce Rampelberg of Rapid City over challenger George Ferebee of Hill City, and former lawmaker Mike Buckingham

of Rapid City over Rep. Phil Jensen of Rapid City.
• Jensen said earlier that Daugaard's endorsements amounted to declaring war on conservatives.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A father and son have been arrested on assault and burglary charges after attacking a neighbor with a bat and a gun in South Dakota's largest city.
• Sioux Falls Police spokesman Sam Clemens tells the Argus Leader that 31-year-old Jeremy Ryan Johnson and 59-year-old James Johnson Jr. were drinking with a new neighbor Sunday night at an apartment complex when an argument broke out.
• Clemens says the elder Johnson kicked in the victim's door and hit him with a baseball bat. The younger Johnson later pointed a gun at the neighbor.
• Both men were arrested on charged of aggravated assault and first-degree bur

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