Saturday,  November 10, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 115 • 34 of 52 •  Other Editions

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Wollman declined to comment to KSFY.
• Assistant Chief Brian Tvedt is temporarily acting as chief as the city looks for a successor to Ketterhagen, who had been chief a little more than two years.


SD corn, soybean estimates unchanged over month

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's corn and soybean production forecasts are unchanged over the month, and both crops are still expected to be down sharply from a year ago.
• The Agriculture Department in its November report estimates the South Dakota soybean crop at 130 million bushels, down 14 percent from last year, and the corn crop at 503 million bushels, down 23 percent over the year.
• Drought has cut into yields this year, especially with the corn crop, where the av

erage yield is down 29 percent.

Federal fugitive back in custody in South Dakota

• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A federal fugitive who led authorities on a chase in South Dakota before getting away again is back in custody.
• Twenty-six-year-old Eric Ladeaux escaped in September from a minimum-security building in Rapid City where he was on supervised release for a weapons crime tied to an earlier aggravated assault conviction.
• U.S. marshals, state Highway Patrol troopers and Rapid City police tried to chase him down Monday night but he fled on foot after crashing his vehicle. A fugitive task force tracked him down and arrested him Wednesday afternoon. Details were not immediately available.

Face of US changing; elections to look different
• CONNIE CASS,Associated Press
• NANCY BENAC,Associated Press

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's not just the economy, stupid. It's the demographics -- the changing face of America.
• The 2012 elections drove home trends that have been embedded in the fine print of birth and death rates, immigration statistics and census charts for years.
• America is rapidly getting more diverse, and, more gradually, so is its electorate.

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