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Former South Dakota legislator Charles Clay dies
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Former South Dakota legislator Charles "Eddie" Clay of Hot Springs has died.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard says Clay died Thursday at age 90. Daugaard has ordered flags at the state Capitol to fly at half-staff on Monday, the day of Clay's funeral.
• Clay served in the state House from 1967-1974. He also was the 1974 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor.
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AP News in Brief
2 of 5 terror suspects extradited to US after UK ruling scheduled to appear in Conn. court
• NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Five terror suspects were extradited from Britain after losing their lengthy fight to avoid facing charges in the U.S., and officials say at least two of the men are expected in court Saturday.
• Radical preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terror suspects were extradited after Britain's High Court ruled Friday they had no more grounds for appeal.
• The U.S. Attorney's office in Connecticut said Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan are scheduled to be in U.S. District Court in New Haven early Saturday.
• Ahmad and Ahsan, along with al-Masri, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary left Britain aboard two planes early Saturday, according to Scotland Yard.
• Officials with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York would not confirm the arrival of al-Masri and the other two men.
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For Obama and Romney, a key to victory in Florida might be conservative Jacksonville area
• JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Eric Allen was 18 and voting in his first presidential election when he chose Barack Obama over John McCain. Four years older now and looking for a job, he is just the kind of voter Republican Mitt Romney needs to win -- and win big -- in northeast Florida's Duval County and take the most coveted of the toss-up states.
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