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ence is given to people interested in becoming an officer.
• With tweetalongs, many calls also mean many tweets. Kolb said departments are cognizant of cluttering peoples' Twitter feeds.
• That's why the Rapid City Police Department decided to create a separate account for the tweetalong, Allender said.
• Kolb also said officers are careful not to tweet personal or sensitive information. Officers typically do not tweet child abuse or domestic abuse cases, and they usually only tweet about a call after they leave the scene to protect officers and callers.
• But Allender, the chief of police in Rapid City, said tweetalongs also show some of the more outrageous calls police deal with on a regular basis -- like the kid who breaks out the window of a police car while the officer is standing on the sidewalk.
• "Real life is funnier than any comedy show out there and not to make fun of people, embarrass them or humiliate them, but people do funny things," Allender said. "... I mean, that guy deserves a little bit of ridicule, and everyone who would be watching would agree. That's just good clean fun to me."
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• SOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Funeral services have been scheduled for three children killed in a house fire a few days before Christmas in Sioux Falls.
• Miller Funeral Home is handling the services, which will begin at 10 a.m. Monday at Celebrate Community Church in Sioux Falls.
• The visitation will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, with family members present from 2 to 4 p.m.
• The fire early Saturday killed 16-year-old Michael Hensley, 12-year-old Savannah Coon and 6-year-old Alivia Coon. The parents, Rhiannon and David White, escaped by leaping to the ground from a second-floor window.
• Cause of the fire has not been determined. Sioux Falls Fire Marshal Dean Lanier tells the Argus Leader that damage to the home was so extensive it hasn't been safe to send in investigators.
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