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store, drove her to a secluded area near the Big Sioux River, then raped and killed her. Her naked body was found the next day. She had been stabbed and her throat was slashed.
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Former SD police chief sentenced
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The former Wagner police chief accused of covering up his girlfriend's methamphetamine use was sentenced Friday to 120 days of community service.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says 44-year-old James Chaney a 180-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine was suspended on the condition he completes the community service work within the next four months.
• Prosecutors say Chaney tried to cover up his girlfriend's meth use by hiding her used needles in his office. He pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to report a crime.
• Chaney resigned from his position as Wagner police chief in early August.
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Projects teaching children to speak Lakota younger
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- When Peter Hill's daughter was born two years ago, he made a conscious decision to only speak Lakota to her.
• Hill, who is fluent in Lakota after learning it as a second language, said he wanted Charlotte to learn the American Indian language from the start.
• "By virtue of that ... in terms of understanding, (she is) completely and equally fluent in both English and Lakota," the proud father and Lakota instructor said.
• Now the Pine Ridge S.D., man plans to start an immersion day care to get other infants speaking fluent Lakota early. His is part of a wave of projects targeting younger children in an effort to revitalize the language of Lakota, which is spoken primarily by Sioux Native Americans in North and South Dakota.
• Fewer than 6,000 people speak the American Indian language of Lakota fluently -- less than 14 percent of the Lakota population in the Dakotas -- and the average age of a Lakota speaker is 60.
• "My hope is if we can make it successful then other people that want to do the same thing can follow the same model," said Hill, who initially will focus on infants from 15 to 20 months old.
• The in-home Lakota Immersion Childcare is set to open at the end of October or (Continued on page 27)
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