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bit.ly/YAf8T6 ) that the company has been working on the project since last spring, and it closed a deal on land in Belle Fourche this past week.
• The plant will make high-density polyethylene pipe for the oil industry in North Dakota and Montana. It also plans to sell pipes to cities for domestic water supplies.
• Belle Fourche Mayor Gary Hendrickson says the new plant is the first success in the city's effort to cash in on the oil field boom in North Dakota.
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SD officials search for suspects after chase
• SALEM, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota law enforcement agencies are searching the Salem area for two men who fled on foot after a vehicle pursuit that led to a crash.
• Officials say the incident began early Saturday after a Highway Patrol trooper tried to stop a van for speeding on U.S. Highway 81 south of Salem. The van did not stop, turned around and headed back toward the trooper's vehicle. The trooper reported he saw what he believed was a gun in the passenger's hand, and heard a shot.
• The Highway Patrol says the van turned onto a gravel road, where it went out of control and rolled. When officers approached the van, it was empty.
• Officials say the van was stolen. They are cautioning area residents to lock their homes and vehicles.
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AP News in Brief
Lights return to lower Manhattan, but frustration grows in outer areas over gas, power
• NEW YORK (AP) -- The lights were back on Saturday in lower Manhattan, prompting screams of sweet relief from residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Superstorm Sandy. But that joy contrasted with deepening resentment in the city's outer boroughs and suburbs over a continued lack of power and maddening gas shortages.
• Adding to the misery of those without power, heat or gasoline were dipping temperatures. Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged older residents without heat to move to shelters and said 25,000 blankets were being distributed across the city.
• "We're New Yorkers, and we're going to get through it," the mayor said. "But I don't want anyone to think we're out of the woods."
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