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• Bob Anderson, a corps spokesman in Vicksburg, Miss., said the blasting involves removing 890 cubic yards of very dense granite -- roughly enough to fill 50 dump trucks -- that typically would be beneath sand on the river bottom but has been exposed by the corps' dredging efforts to keep the channel open.
• "We've dredged so far and so deep," taking out 6 million cubic yards of sand and sediment between St. Louis and Cairo, that the rock formations now come into play, Anderson said.
• The blasting and rock removal, tentatively expected to cost about $8 million, could bottleneck barge traffic in and near the work zone. That stretch of river would be closed for as many as 16 hours a day to ensure the safety of the shippers, Anderson said.
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SD man gets prison for Iowa, Neb. bank robberies
• SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for robbing banks in Iowa and Nebraska.
• Karlis Baisden of Vermillion, S.D., received the prison term earlier this week in Sioux City. He's also been ordered to pay $19,000 in restitution.
• The 25-year-old pleaded guilty last year to an attempted bank robbery in Lawton, Iowa, and robbing a bank in Fordyce, Neb.
• Baisden was arrested in April 2011 for his connection to the Lawton bank robbery. Officials later seized handwritten letters from Baisden's home where he admitted to robbing the bank in Fordye in December 2010. The letters also included his plans to rob the Lawton bank.
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SD trooper injured in police chase leaves hospital
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota trooper who was critically injured after an October police chase in Sioux Falls has left the hospital months earlier than expected.
• It's an early Christmas gift for the family of Trooper Andrew Steen, who left Sanford Hospital on Friday amid the cheers of more than a hundred supporters.
• The Argus Leader reports that he left the hospital wearing his Highway Patrol uniform and using crutches.
• Steen underwent two surgeries to remove part of his skull to relieve pressure on his brain, and then to replace it. He'd been hit by a car while trying to pull over 28-year-old Rachel Coleman for erratic driving. Coleman was shot at least three times (Continued on page 26)
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