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$2,000 and First Bank & Trust agreed to match $1,000.
• Authorities say 34-year-old Steen was injured after he was run over by a suspect two weeks ago.
• Authorities say 25-year-old Rachel Coleman has been charged with drunken driving, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault on law enforcement, vehicular battery, felony eluding and felony hit-and-run.
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Appeals court dismisses SD execution challenge
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a challenge of South Dakota's execution protocol, clearing the way for Donald Moeller's execution on Tuesday.
• Sioux Falls resident Donna Nichols had tried to stay the execution and intervene in the case, but U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol denied the motion. She appealed but then decided to ask for a dismissal.
• Authorities say Moeller kidnapped O'Connell from a Sioux Falls convenience store in 1990, drove her to a secluded area near the Big Sioux River, then raped and killed her. Her naked body was found the next day.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says state law requires the sentence to be carried out as scheduled unless South Dakota's governor or a court having jurisdiction stays the proceeding.
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Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
ALLEN G. BREED,Associated Press
TOM HAYS,Associated Press
• NEW YORK (AP) -- As Superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark.
• New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart in Lower Manhattan shuttered for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Center. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the city and Long Island.
• The storm that made landfall in New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph sustained winds killed at least 17 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.
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