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• Schreier said in September that even if state officials had valid concerns that prompted them to change the policy, they should have used less restrictive means than an overall ban.
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SD Senate approves state park at Blood Run site
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Senate has approved Gov. Dennis Daugaard's proposal to create a new state park at the Blood Run nature area along the Big Sioux River southeast of Sioux Falls.
• Senators voted 31-2 to send the measure to the House for further debate.
• The bill would designate the 600-acre site as South Dakota's 13th state park. The Good Earth State Park would be the first state park created in more than 50 years.
• Blood Run was designated a national historic landmark in 1970. The area along the Big Sioux River bordering Iowa was used by thousands of Oneota Indians into the early 1700s. The area includes a large oak forest, rolling hills, flood plains, riverside bluffs and burial mounds.
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Mission woman pleads to stealing prescriptions
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A 33-year-old pharmacy technician has pleaded guilty to theft in connection with health care and larceny related to prescription medicine taken at the Indian Health Hospital in Rosebud.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Tisha Leader Charge of Mission took a few pills out of prescription bottles before giving them to the patients on multiple occasions.
• Johnson says she also took prescribed medications that patients did not pick up and entered them into the computer system as being restocked. Leader Charge admitted to giving some of the medications she stole to other people.
• Johnson says the case also involved the taking of personal property of employees and interns.
• Leader Charge was released on bond pending an April 9 sentencing.
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