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(illness), LB London Fletcher (ankle), WR Pierre Garcon (foot), QB Robert Griffin III (knee), CB DeAngelo Hall (elbow), LB Ryan Kerrigan (ankle), C Will Montgomery (knee), WR Joshua Morgan (hand, foot), S Jordan Pugh (ankle), P Sav Rocca (right knee), S Madieu Williams (elbow).
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Police: False hijacking report related to pursuit
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City police investigated a false report of plane hijacking early Friday that appears related to an earlier pursuit in Box Elder.
• Rapid City police spokeswoman Tarah Heupel (HY'-puhl) tells The Associated Press that officers responded to the airport but determined there was no hijacking. She says the call appears to have been made by someone involved in a Thursday night pursuit.
• Authorities in Box Elder tell KOTA television that 29-year-old Donald Belile failed to stop after being flagged down for a broken tail light. Police say he fled south on Radar Hill and officers pursued with speeds nearing 100 miles per hour.
• The car was found abandoned a short time later and Belile was arrested on charges including aggravated eluding of a law enforcement officer. Attorney information was not immediately available.
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City bans may prompt SD ban on texting and driving
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature has repeatedly refused to ban texting while driving, declining to join the 39 other states that have already done so.
• However, South Dakota lawmakers may look more favorably on the idea this year because four South Dakota cities in the past year have imposed their own bans on texting.
• Sen. Mike Vehle, R-Mitchell, who plans to introduce a texting ban in the legislative session that begins Tuesday, said lawmakers who have been sitting on the fence might support a ban now that Sioux Falls, Brookings, Watertown and Huron have passed their own.
• Vehle said it's time to pass a state law banning texting while driving so the law is the same in every community. His measure would prohibit cities and counties from having bans that differ from his proposed state law, which would prohibit writing, reading or sending text-based messages while driving.
• "What I'm trying to avoid is a patchwork of different laws as you're driving down (Continued on page 23)
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