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they desperately need one more.
• Which means lots of Peterson for the Packers to deal with.
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Man arrested in death of toddler to remain in jail
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A 24-year-old man arrested in the death of an 18-month-old boy in Sioux Falls will remain in custody on a $1 million bond.
• Manegabe Chebea Ally is charged with alternate counts of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.
• The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/Rm9vr8 ) that Ally made his initial court appearance Friday. He heard the charges against him and was advised of his rights through a Swahili interpreter.
• Minnehaha County Deputy State's Attorney Don Hanson asked a judge to require that Ally be held on a $1 million bond. Deputy Public Defender Kenny Jacobs did not make any arguments on the bond amount.
• Ally told police the child fell off a bed on Christmas Eve, but doctors said such a fall could not have caused the child's injuries.
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Trains carrying more oil across US amid boom
JOSH FUNK,Associated Press
MATTHEW BROWN,Associated Press
• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse -- the locomotive -- to move their crude to refineries across the U.S., as plans for new pipelines stall and existing lines can't keep up with demand.
• Delivering oil thousands of miles by rail from the heartland to refineries on the East, West and Gulf coasts costs more, but it can mean increased profits -- up to $10 or more a barrel -- because of higher oil prices on the coasts. That works out to roughly $700,000 per train.
• The parade of mile-long trains carrying hazardous material out of North Dakota and Montana and across the country has experts and federal regulators concerned. Rail transport is less safe than pipelines, they say, and the proliferation of oil trains raises the risk of a major derailment and spill.
• Since 2009, the number of train cars carrying crude hauled by major railroads has jumped from about 10,000 a year to a projected 200,000 in 2012. Much of it has been in the Northern Plains' Bakken crude patch, but companies say oil trains are (Continued on page 20)
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