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• The search for Davidson began in rural Brule County and ended in Sioux Falls, with the Brule County Sheriff's Office, Chamberlain Police Department, Huron Police Department, Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office, Mitchell Police Department, North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Winner Police Department also helped with the investigation.
• Sioux Falls police got involved after receiving a call from the state Division of Criminal Investigation saying they were looking for a person of interest in a death investigation. A SWAT team was sent to the 16th Street apartment about 6:30 p.m., and Davidson came out about four hours later.
• Davidson was considered armed and dangerous, but Larson said he was not sure if the man actually had a weapon.
• A release from Jackley's office said the investigation is continuing.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota company is sponsoring a conference in Minnesota on investment and business opportunities in North Dakota's booming oil patch.
• Sioux Falls-based Hegg Companies Inc. is holding the daylong conference Friday in Golden Valley, Minn.
• Hegg Companies is a real estate and management firm that also does business in the western North Dakota's oil patch.
• The company says similar conferences on North Dakota oil patch business opportunities have been held in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona and Texas.
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• WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities have filed a second-degree murder charge against a South Dakota man arrested for abusing a toddler who later died.
• Twenty-five-year-old Jay Barse, of Watertown, was arrested Wednesday on an aggravated battery charge after police responded to a report of an unconscious child at his home.
• Authorities did not identify the child, who is younger than 3 years old. They say the child was taken to a Watertown hospital Wednesday and then airlifted to a Sioux Falls hospital, where the toddler died from head trauma.

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