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ported it to Marshall County conservation officer Casey Dowler.
• "I didn't really even know what to think," Dowler told the American News. "I just thought, 'That's one of the strangest calls I've had as a game warden in South Dakota.'"
• "They're bad news," he said of wild pigs. "We don't want these animals in South Dakota, any way, shape or form."
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AP News in Brief
'Dallas' star Larry Hagman, scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing on TV's long-running soap, dies
• J.R. Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron -- and coaxed forth a Texas-size gusher of ratings -- on television's long-running and hugely successful nighttime soap, "Dallas."
• Although he first gained fame as nice guy Capt. Tony Nelson on the fluffy 1965-70 NBC comedy "I Dream of Jeannie," Hagman earned his greatest stardom with J.R. The CBS serial drama about the Ewing family and those in their orbit aired from April 1978 to May 1991, and broke viewing records with its "Who shot J.R.?" 1980 cliffhanger that left unclear if Hagman's character was dead.
• The actor, who returned as J.R. in a new edition of "Dallas" this year, had a long history of health problems and died Friday due to complications from his battle with cancer, his family said.
• "Larry was back in his beloved hometown of Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved the most. Larry's family and closest friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday," the family said in the statement, which was provided to The Associated Press by Warner Bros., producer of the show.
• The 81-year-old actor was surrounded by friends and family before he passed peacefully, "just as he'd wished for," the statement said.
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TV icon Larry Hagman through the years
• Larry Hagman, whose masterful portrayal of the charmingly loathsome J.R. Ewing on "Dallas" brought him his greatest stardom, has died at the age of 81. That role on CBS' long-running nighttime soap opera was a ratings bonanza for the network, particularly the "Who shot J.R.?" story twist.
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