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attempted to stop a vehicle going 90 mph in a 55 mph zone, but the driver refused to stop.
• He says officers from the Charles Mix County Sheriff's Office, the Wagner Police Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs all joined in the chase, which lasted about an hour and 15 minutes.
• Babl says the chase ended when the suspects' vehicle apparently ran out of gas.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The 10th annual South Dakota Festival of Books kicks off Friday in Sioux Falls.
• This year's event brings more than 50 authors together for a variety of workshops, presentations and book signings. Presentations focus on one of six tracks: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's and youth, history and tribal, and writer's support.
• Most of the presentations and workshops during the three-day festival are free and open to the public. The majority of the events are taking place at locations in downtown Sioux Falls.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- When it comes to electing the president, not all votes are created equal. And chances are yours will count less than those of a select few.
• For example, the vote of Dave Smith in Sheridan, Wyo., counts almost 3 1/2 times as much mathematically as those of his wife's aunts in northeastern Ohio.
• Why? Electoral College math.
• A statistical analysis of the state-by-state voting-eligible population by The Associated Press shows that Wyoming has 139,000 eligible voters -- those 18 and over, U.S. citizens and non-felons -- for every presidential elector chosen in the state. In Ohio, it's almost 476,000 per elector, and it's nearly 478,000 in neighboring Pennsylvania.

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