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she had received such counseling.
• Rep. Karen Soli, D-Sioux Falls, urged the Senate committee to kill the bill, saying she supports counseling for women seeking abortions but opposes extending the waiting period. Women forced to wait longer could face additional pressure and even violence from boyfriends trying to coerce them into abortions, she said.
• "If a pregnancy help center cannot find a way to provide this counseling or weekends and holidays, we need to find somebody who can," Soli said.
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• TEA, S.D. (AP) -- A man has been arrested on drug charges following an apartment fire in Tea.
• Thirty-two-year-old Jesse Rains was taken into custody following the early Tuesday morning blaze in the second floor of a strip mall.
• Rains is charged in Lincoln County with four counts, including manufacturing and possession of a controlled substance.
• Authorities say chemicals in the apartment were similar to those used to make methamphetamine. Lab components were also seized from the apartment.
• Rains was released on a promise to appear in court. The next hearing is scheduled April 10.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Daria Bossman has been named the new state librarian in South Dakota.
• Bossman has served as interim state librarian for the past five months. She started at the library in 2008 in development services.
• Bossman formerly worked as director of library services and assistant professor for 15 years at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa.
• State Education Secretary Melody Schopp says Bossman's background in library development and experience in education are a "solid fit" for the position.
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• MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. (AP) -- A report says the 3.8 million visitors to national parks in South Dakota spent $165 million in communities near those parks in 2011.
• The National Park Service report says spending by those visitors supported

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