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Farmers Union breaks ground on new building
• HURON, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Farmers Union says it has broken ground on a new 8,400 square foot state office building.
• The new building in Huron will house South Dakota Farmers Union staff along with the state office staff of the Farmers Union Insurance Agency and the South Dakota Farmers Union Foundation.
• Construction will begin later this month, and the building is expected to be finished sometime next spring.
• The current two-story building, completed in 1951, will be torn down once the new building is completed.
• Members celebrated a groundbreaking on Thursday.
• Farmers Union President Doug Sombke says he's been looking forward to the day for several years.
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Moeller admits 1990 rape, murder of girl in court
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Donald Moeller regularly reads the Bible while on death row, but the graying 60-year-old is forgoing mercy and taking an Old Testament approach to his fate.
• For the first time, Moeller admitted Thursday that he kidnapped, raped and killed 9-year-old Becky O'Connell more than 20 years ago. He told a federal judge that what he did was evil and that he has to pay for it.
• "The law has spoken," said Moeller, who was twice convicted of first-degree murder in the 1990 slaying. "I killed. I deserve to be killed."
• U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Piersol ordered Moeller to appear at Thursday's hearing, which was supposed to deal with the constitutionality of South Dakota's one-drug capital punishment procedure. But the proceedings have become mired in a series of bizarre motions that pit Moeller's state-court lawyer against Arkansas-based public defenders arguing the federal case.
• Piersol listened to arguments about the attempt to dismiss but not specifics on the lethal injection protocol. He took the dismissal under advisement and will rule later. Moeller is scheduled to be executed in late October or early November.
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