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SD business groups join to support referred bill
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A group of South Dakota businesses, chambers of commerce and other organizations have joined forces to support a referred measure that would set up a program to give tax refunds to large industrial projects.
• The Republican-controlled South Dakota Legislature passed the measure last year at the urging of Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard. It will provide grants to offset the cost of construction taxes on projects that cost at least $5 million.
• The governor says the program will attract more businesses to South Dakota. But Democrats collected enough signatures to refer the measure to a statewide public vote in November. Democrats argue the money set aside for business grants would be better spent on education.
• Seventeen business-oriented groups announced Tuesday they will work to get voters to approve the law.
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Colo. man pleads not guilty in 2-year-old's death
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Colorado man has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of a 2-year-old Rapid City girl.
• Twenty-three-year-old Edward Berges is accused of killing the girl last month after her mother left the child with him.
• Berges is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, aggravated child abuse and aggravated infant battery. The murder charge carries a mandatory life sentence.
• Rapid City police found the girl Aug. 15 after they got a call about a medical emergency. The child was taken to a Rapid City hospital, and then flown to Sanford Children's Hospital in Sioux Falls, where she died.
• Police have said Berges is the boyfriend of the girl's mother.
• Capt. Marty Graves with the Pennington County Sheriff's Department tells KOTA TV (http://bit.ly/QzZLoV ) that the girl died of blunt force trauma.
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South Dakota man claims $10,000 Powerball prize
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Howard man has claimed a $10,000 Powerball prize.
• South Dakota lottery officials say Tony Schwader won the money in the Sept. 5 drawing. He hit the game's third prize when his ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball. The odds of winning the prize are one in about (Continued on page 28)
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