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• Lakota Nation Tournament (Paha Sapa Bracket)
• Consolation Semifinal
• Custer 44, Flandreau Indian 23
• Tiospa Zina Tribal 55, Takini 4
• Semifinal
• Lower Brule 54, Omaha Nation, Neb. 47
• St. Francis Indian 52, White River 39
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Police: Juvenile with pellet gun detained at mall
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls police responding to a call about a juvenile carrying a gun inside Empire Mall says the person had a non-lethal pellet gun.
• No one was hurt, and the unnamed juvenile is being questioned.
• Police Lt. Terry Mixell says someone from the mall called police Friday afternoon. By the time officers arrived, the juvenile was gone, but they were able to track him down nearby.
• Mixell says the Airsoft gun shoots plastic pellets.
• Tensions nationwide have been high since last week, when a gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults.
• This Friday also marks the day that some believe ancient Mayans had prophesized the world would end, which has prompted threats that closed down smatterings of schools across the country.
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Churches prepare Christmas packages for SD inmates
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- More than 3,000 care packages of fudge and Christmas cards will be delivered to the inmates at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, the Yankton Minimum Security Unit and the Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield on Monday as part of an annual tradition.
• For many of the inmates, it's the only present they'll have during the holiday season.
• "Some of them don't have very many ties to the outside world anymore, so this is just sort of special. Some of the guys are already thinking about it a couple months ahead of time, wondering if we're going to do them again," said Rev. Steve Moerman of Cornerstone Prison Church at the state penitentiary.
• The churches at the prison started offering the packages to inmates back in the 1980s, he said. Starting in October, the churches start planning for the packages. (Continued on page 19)
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