Suspect arrested in Rapid City shooting death
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City police have arrested a suspect in a recent shooting death in a motel parking lot.
• Authorities on Monday night surrounded a mobile home and apprehended 30-year-old Charles Birdshead without incident on outstanding warrants. After questioning him they arrested him on several charges including second-degree murder in the death of 33-year-old Eustacio Marrufo.
• Marrufo was shot to death Jan. 7 in the parking lot of the South Dakota Rose Inn. Police say he died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Authorities had been seeking Birdshead for about a week for questioning.
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SD lawmakers hold 1st hearing on justice changes
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature is holding its first committee hearing on a plan to cut prison costs and improve the rehabilitation of convicted criminals by treating more nonviolent offenders outside prison walls.
• The Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee is getting a briefing Tuesday on the plan and some projected costs of the changes in probation, parole and special courts that treat offenders with alcohol problems.
• A formal hearing on the measure will be held later by the Senate State Affairs Committee. But the Appropriations Committee has to deal with the plan's implications for the state budget.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson have asked lawmakers to support the proposal.
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Monday's Scores
The Associated Press
• BOYS BASKETBALL
• Bon Homme 63, Winner 56
• Dupree 90, Lemmon 45
• Ethan 78, Menno 42
• Harding County 60, Timber Lake 37
• Lennox 65, West Central 47
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