• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Xcel Energy officials say they have completed repairs to an underground electricity system in downtown Sioux Falls and power has been restored to all customers.
• Officials say a handful of customers who were still without power were back online at 10 a.m. Sunday.
• The power outage early Friday morning blew off manhole covers and caused a sidewalk to buckle. More than 500 customers, mostly businesses, were initially affected, but crews restored power to 300 buildings in about an hour.
• All but about a dozen customers had power by Saturday afternoon.
• Xcel Energy spokeswoman Laura McCarten says it was an unusual outage because of the extent of damage to the system. She says crews replaced thousands of feet of destroyed electrical cable and other pieces of equipment.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A winter warm-up has put motorists on alert and skaters on hold in South Dakota.
• The National Weather Service on Sunday morning issued a rain and freezing rain advisory for the southeastern corner of the state. Weather officials say cold ground temperatures could make driving -- and walking -- tricky.
• It is also bad news for skaters. The warm weather has forced the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Department to close its six outdoor skating rinks, two hockey rinks and warming houses.
• Officials say the rinks will reopen when ice conditions improve.
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