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formed a human chain with some Haitian residents to make it across.
• "It was like a bad episode of 'The Amazing Race,'" Kenny told the American News, referring to the reality TV show.
• The nurses arrived home on Tuesday, in time to see news reports of the storm's devastation in the U.S.
• "It was shocking how much damage there was," Kenny said.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A dispute over the candidacy of a Rapid City legislator is unlikely to be resolved before Tuesday's general election.
• Rapid City businesswoman Stephanie Strong earlier sued Secretary of State Jason Gant, alleging he improperly approved Republican Rep. Brian Gosch as a candidate in the June primary despite uncertainty over whether it was proper for Gosch to notarize some of his own nominating petitions.
• Gosch easily advanced to the Nov. 6 general election as he seeks a third full term in the House.
• Strong, a Republican who unsuccessfully tried to get on the June ballot, wants a judge to force Gant to remove Gosch from the November ballot, calling it a matter of integrity. Gosch calls it "a groundless charge politically timed as a smear campaign."
• A judge granted a request by Attorney General Marty Jackley to move the lawsuit from Rapid City to Sioux Falls. Strong has now appealed to the state Supreme Court.
• "We were supposed to have a hearing Oct. 3 at 1:00 and we did not get due process," she told the Argus Leader. "The change of venue was improper."
• Jackley and Gosch's attorney, Sara Frankenstein, contends that Strong missed the deadline for making an appeal and filed it at the wrong venue.
• "There's no pending order in the case, and really there's no case at this point," Jackley told the Rapid City Journal. "People have already been voting (through early voting). This needed to be addressed before that. It's our position that this is moot."
• Strong acknowledged that a resolution is unlikely before Tuesday but said she does not intend to give up on getting a ruling from a judge.
• "People have a duty as citizens, as voters, to speak up when their government people are not doing things of integrity," she said. "Otherwise, we're going to be ruled by people making bad decisions."
• Frankenstein told the Argus Leader that she thinks Strong is motivated by less pure goals.

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