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way Patrol. The chase ended when Beeney crashed the pickup truck he had stolen from a dealership in Bismarck, N.D., in a field west of the South Dakota town of Alpena.
• "We'd had no problems with him whatsoever" since the arrest, Solem said.
• Beeney also was involved in a chase with law enforcement officers in North Dakota in December 2005. He was caught and booked into the Richland County Jail but escaped later that month by using an iron post he apparently had wrenched from a piece of furniture to overwhelm a jailer. He stole a pickup from a farm and went on the lam for about 16 hours before he was caught.
• In January 2006, he was sentenced to five years in the State Penitentiary in Bismarck, where he made an unsuccessful escape attempt in June 2010 -- less than two months before his scheduled release.
• Beeney faced only prison discipline for the attempted escape and was released on schedule because he was wanted in Kansas for violating parole on felony convictions including aggravated robbery, said Tim Tausend, a spokesman for the North Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
• Kansas Department of Corrections records show that Beeney returned to Kansas and served about eight months in a state prison in Lansing before he was paroled again in April 2011. He absconded from parole last November and turned up in Bismarck a month later.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference will hold its men's and women's basketball tournaments at a new Sioux Falls complex beginning in 2014.
• Commissioner Butch Raymond on Tuesday announced a three-year agreement to move the NSIC/Sanford Health Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments to the Pentagon by Sanford Health.
• The 160,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in the fall of 2013. The Pentagon is a comprised of nine basketball courts -- six high school regulation courts, two professional-college practice courts and a "heritage" court paying homage to 1950s-60s basketball.
• Raymond says the pentagon-shaped facility aligns with the conference's goal to provide a tremendous student-athlete experience. He says Sioux Falls will be a great host community.
• The 2014 basketball quarterfinals, semifinals and finals will run March 1-4 at the

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