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Mission man sentenced for sexual abuse of minor
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A 34-year-old Mission man has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says that Robert Romero was indicted by a federal grand jury in September 2011, and pleaded guilty to the charge in July.
• Prosecutors say that Romero had sexual contact with a 12-year-old girl in June 2004.
• Romero was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal.
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Free admission to national parks on Saturday
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The National Park Service is offering free admission to all parks on Saturday in honor of National Public Lands Day.
• The 19th annual event is meant to encourage people to go outside and enjoy the outdoors. Admission will be waived for all 397 national parks in the country.
• In South Dakota, there are seven national parks. They are Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Badlands National Park, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, Missouri National Recreational River and Minuteman Missile National Historic Site.
• Several parks across the country will also be holding volunteer events on Saturday.
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SD festival drawing filmmakers to middle America
AMBER HUNT,Associated Press
• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- It's a Friday night on Main Street in the small northern South Dakota town of Aberdeen, and it's supposedly a hopping one with the marquee event of the annual South Dakota Film Festival being held at the historic Capitol Theater.
• And yet, the street is nearly empty. The chirping of crickets is only occasionally disturbed by passing cars or pedestrians. Cannes or Sundance, this is not.
• Some might consider it an unfortunate side effect of being, well, in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota, in a town hugged by corn fields and the closest "big cities" -- Fargo, Bismarck, Sioux Falls and Pierre -- each being about three hours away.
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