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• Space will be tight. Besides commercial flights, the airport has seen an influx of private planes.
• "There've been days when they've had so many aircraft on the ramp, they've asked us to shut down the taxiways so they could park aircraft on the taxiway," Remynse said.
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Former SDSMT student sentenced for threat letter
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A former South Dakota School of Mines and Technology student has been sentenced to 180 days in jail for leaving a threatening note on the campus.
• KOTA TV reports (http://bit.ly/PmcD2K ) that 19-year-old Boyce Way of Mitchell admitted in court that he was stressed out financially and academically when he left the threatening note at the college in Rapid City in April.
• In the letter, Boyce warned of a school shooting and the burning of a dean's house.
• Way was immediately expelled from the school. He will not be allowed into any state school for six years.
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ND man sentenced in pivotal domestic violence case
DAVE KOLPACK,Associated Press
• FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota man whose case has been cited by the federal government as the legal standard for prosecuting domestic violence cases on American Indian reservations was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison.
• Roman Cavanaugh Jr., of Fort Totten, pleaded guilty in July to domestic assault by a habitual offender, a charge that allows prosecutors to use previous convictions in tribal courts to bring a case to federal court. The habitual offender statute has been upheld by two federal appeals courts.
• Cavanaugh was convicted of domestic abuse offenses in March 2005, April 2005 and January 2008, all in tribal court. The federal charge involves a July 2008 incident in which Cavanaugh was accused of slamming his common-law wife's head against the dashboard of his car and threatening to kill her.
• "Because of this statute, Roman Cavanaugh isn't going to be in a position to abuse his wife and kids for a very long time," U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon, of North Dakota, said.
• A judge in 2009 threw out the habitual offender charge because Cavanaugh did (Continued on page 39)
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