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Sioux City, Iowa firm to buy closed postal center
• SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) -- The Sioux City distribution center that the U.S. Postal Service closed last fall won't stay empty for long.
• A local company that sells animal feed and nutrition products wholesale, Consumer Supply Distributing, wants to buy the building for future expansion.
• The company, which employs about 70, plans to convert the postal building into its distribution center. Then Consumer Supply's existing building could be used entirely for manufacturing.
• On Monday, the City Council will consider offering the Consumer Supply tax breaks for buying the building if the North Sioux City, S.D., based company meets
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Whiteclay burn victim files papers to sue county
GRANT SCHULTE,Associated Press
• LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A man who was burned in a controlled grass fire in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay has filed papers to sue local authorities for negligence, saying they failed to spot him lying in a field and ignited the blaze on a dangerously windy day.
• The man burned, Bryan Blue Bird Jr., lives just across the state line on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and the incident comes amid already tense relations between members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Whiteclay business owners. That's due to the vast amount of alcohol sold in four beer stores to residents of Pine Ridge, where alcohol is banned.
• Blue Bird, who said he hadn't been drinking when he was burned, has hired an Omaha lawyer and filed tort-claim papers that will allow him to proceed with a lawsuit against Sheridan County and the Rushville Fire Department.
• Blue Bird said members of the volunteer department should have seen him when they set the blaze on March 6. He suffered burns on roughly 25 percent of his body, including his hands, face, left leg, lower back and abdomen.
• "I'm a grown man, but I've cried a lot since this happened," Blue Bird said. "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy, on anyone's worst enemy. It's horrible."
• Phone messages left Thursday and Friday with the Sheridan County Sheriff's office, which supervised the Rushville fire crew, were not returned. An assistant Sheri (Continued on page 15)
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