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troleum coke -- into gas that would be burned to produce electricity. Hyperion contends that the refinery would be a clean, modern plant that would use the most advanced, commercially feasible emissions control technology.
• Company officials have said that efforts to secure financing are progressing, but they have not provided details.
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Lighting of falls rescheduled due to rescue effort
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The annual lighting of The Falls green to mark St. Patrick's Day in Sioux Falls has been rescheduled in light of a search effort for a man who is presumed dead after drowning.
• Amy Smolik with the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce says sponsors have decided not to light The Falls Friday or Saturday out of respect for an ongoing search for 28-year-old Lyle Francis Eagletail. Eagletail and 16-year-old Madison Leigh Wallace jumped into the Big Sioux River on Thursday to save Wallace's 6-year-old brother.
• The brother later emerged, but Eagletail and Wallace didn't. Wallace's body was located Friday afternoon, while rescuers are still searching for Eagletail.
• Smolik says organizers plan to light The Falls green Sunday evening. There will be no program marking the lighting.
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Sioux Falls standoff ends peacefully after 2 hours
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Mitchell man wanted for questioning in a Brule County homicide surrendered to Sioux Falls SWAT teams after an hours-long standoff, police said Friday.
• Kent Gene Davidson, 36, was arrested about 10:15 p.m. Thursday on an October parole violation after he left the Sioux Falls apartment of an acquaintance, said Sioux Falls police spokesman Jim Larson.
• Larson said SWAT team crisis negotiators talked to Davidson by telephone during the standoff and were able to convince him to give up.
• "I don't believe any force was used," Larson said. "He came out willingly."
• It was not immediately clear if Davidson had obtained an attorney.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley and Brule County State's Attorney David Natvig say additional charges are expected in the death Crystal Ann Schulz, 26, of Mitchell. She was found dead in a shed on a rural Chamberlain farmstead on Thursday.
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