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• Brennan said he's looking for additional volunteers with musical talent.
• "I'm going to reach out to everybody I know in the business," he said. "We need hundreds of instruments donated and we need hours donated and money donated, all that stuff."
• Brennan said he's kicking in an initial $100,000 to complete the build out and to buy instruments, and he's committed to paying the rent for 20 years to cover the space in the 11th Street location owned by him and his partners.
• He expects the academy to be up and running within four to five months.
• Fogas said the kids can't wait.
• "They're so excited," she said.
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Former tribal council member sentenced for assault
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A former Standing Rock Sioux tribal council member has been sentenced to two years in prison for domestic assault by an habitual offender.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says 44-year-old Kerby St. John was convicted in June for an incident that took place in July 2011 in Kenel, a community on the Standing Rock reservation.
• The reservation spans the North Dakota-South Dakota border.
• The jury's verdict is believed to be one of the first in the nation involving a new federal statute that punishes acts of domestic violence in which an accused person has two prior convictions of domestic violence in federal, state or tribal courts.
• St. John was previously convicted twice in tribal court for domestic assault.
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Moeller tells judge he wants attorneys dropped
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A convicted killer scheduled to be executed within the next month has written a federal judge saying he no longer wants to be represented by the Arkansas attorneys who've been challenging the constitutionality of South Dakota's execution protocol.
• Donald Moeller is set to die for the 1990 slaying of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. He wrote Judge Lawrence Piersol from the state penitentiary on Tuesday.
• Moeller wants the federal case bearing his name dismissed.
• The attorneys say Moeller's incompetent and incapable of making voluntary and rational decisions. They want to press forward with arguments.
• The case focuses on whether South Dakota's use of the lethal injection drug pen (Continued on page 23)
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