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cost, while each institution must provide the remaining 20 percent.
• The grants are part of the South Dakota Broadband Initiative, which seeks to enhance high speed Internet service. The money will be used to improve computer security and provide computers and other equipment.
• The grants will go to school districts, public libraries, cities, YMCA facilities, and other organizations in Beresford, Brookings, Sturgis, Philip, Hayti, Miller, Madison, Pierre, Gettysburg, Redfield, Volga, Fort Pierre and Rapid City.
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Reward offered in death of man in Rapid City

• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A community organization is offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction in the death of a man whose body

was found in Rapid City.
• Rapid City police say in a news release that The Community Reward Fund is offering a $5,000 reward for information in the death of 45-year-old Robert Ghostbear. The body of Ghostbear was found March 21. An autopsy determined he died from a blow to the head.
• The Reward Fund -- operated with donations from community businesses and organizations -- was established in 1992.
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Japanese ambassador visits Bismarck, Grand Forks
DALE WETZEL,Associated Press

• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota has opportunities for expanded trade with Japan, including the potential export of liquefied natural gas, Japan's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday during a trip to the state.
• Japan is already a major customer for U.S. corn, wheat, soybeans and pork. Beef import restrictions, brought on by fears of mad cow disease, may be relaxed soon, Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki said during a news conference with Gov. Jack Dalrymple at the state Capitol.
• The ambassador also visited the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks to speak about the U.S.-Japan relationship and talk to Japanese students who are taking pilot training courses at UND's aerospace school.
• Since a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami shut down several Japanese nuclear power plants, the country has increased its reliance on liquefied natural gas to generate electricity. The fuel is much more expensive in Japan than it is in the

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