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Zoo holding run-off for to name baby giraffe
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Great Plains Zoo is holding a run-off election to name its new baby giraffe.
• From now through Friday, people can submit their votes to name the giraffe. The two choices are Gerald or Stelten. The two names were submitted by zoo visitors.
• In September, the zoo's 13-year-old giraffe Libby gave birth to a male calf weighing 147 pounds and about 6 feet tall.
• Voters are asked to donate at least $1 when they cast their vote. People can vote by visiting the zoo, online at greatzoo.org or by mailing a vote and donation to Great Plains Zoo, 805 S. Kiwanis Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57104. All proceeds benefit the animals of the zoo, which is a nonprofit organization.
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Varilek pokes at Noem with election corn dog party
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Republican Rep. Kristi Noem and Democratic challenger Matt Varilek planned to vote early Tuesday before making last-minute campaign pushes in their hard-fought race for South Dakota's lone U.S. House seat.
• Noem said she would vote right after she bundled her children off to school and then swing through some small towns close to her family's ranch near Hayti in northeastern South Dakota. Varilek was voting near his home in Sioux Falls and then joining campaign workers in calling supporters to make sure they got to the polls.
• He planned to stay positive after pulling his ads attacking Noem off television on Saturday. Varilek said he thought voters were fed up with negative campaigning after months in which the candidates pelted them with ads and sparred in debates and on the campaign trail.
• "I think people appreciate the fact I've decided on my own to run only positive TV ads to the end of the campaign," Varilek said Monday.
• Noem continued running her ads, saying she wanted to "contrast" her record with Varilek's views.
• "We're going to make sure we're consistent with our messaging so people know they have a clear choice in this election," she said. Her campaign also said Varilek apparently failed to ask that some attack ads be pulled from an Aberdeen radio station.
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