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from the floor as SDSU outscored the Bison 38-16. The Jackrabbits shot 57 percent in the second half.
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Power restored to more customers in Sioux Falls
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Xcel Energy says power has been restored to all but a few dozen customers in downtown Sioux Falls.
• The announcement came Saturday afternoon.
• More than 500 customers were affected by the outage that happened early Friday morning following an underground fire traced to electrical equipment. By Saturday morning about 200 customers remained in the dark.
• Xcel officials say the power is now 95 percent restored. It says the only customers left without power are businesses.
• Full restoration is expected by 7 a.m. Sunday.
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Hundreds turn out for McGovern estate sale in SD
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Hundreds of people braved frigid temperatures Saturday for a chance to buy books, furniture and other items once owned by three-time presidential candidate George McGovern.
• A two-day estate sale at the U.S. senator's Sioux Falls home started at 9 a.m. Saturday. McGovern, one of the nation's most-outspoken voices for liberalism who was deeply opposed to the Vietnam War, died in October at age 90.
• People began lining up for the sale as early as 4 a.m., and with only 20 to 30 visitors allowed in the house at time, others also had to wait in line for hours for their chance to get a glimpse at McGovern's items.
• "It's surreal. It's very emotional in some respects. You can see the character and personality of this man in this house," said Matt Arntz, a 58-year-old attorney from Dayton, Ohio, who drove 14 hours so he could get a close look at McGovern's possessions and talk to friends and fans of the Democrat.
• Arntz is planning to write a biography about McGovern, who lost the 1972 presidential race to Richard Nixon in a historic landslide. Arntz worked on that campaign.
• Sitting in a room filled with political memorabilia and McGovern's books, Arntz was working to pare down some of his selections. He already had a box full of personal photos and books McGovern had read and made notes in.
• "That will help me understand his thinking some time ago when he read this," he (Continued on page 24)
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