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Rapid City hotel drowning likely accidental
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The mother of an 8-year-old girl who drowned at a Rapid City hotel says the family was on a vacation that turned tragic.
• Authorities on Monday identified the victim of the Saturday morning drowning as Jasann Dubray, of Parmalee. They say in a statement that the preliminary investigation indicates the death was accidental but an autopsy is planned Tuesday.
• Mother Lisa TwoEagles tells KEVN-TV that her two older daughters, ages 10 and 13, were with Jasann at the Econo Lodge pool while she was in her room getting ready to check out Saturday. She says her older daughters found Jasann at the bottom of the pool.
• TwoEagles says Jasann suffered from a brain disorder but had been swimming for two years and could swim an Olympic-size pool.
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NSU student vote on smoking ban has low turnout
• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- Students at Northern State University have voted in favor of banning smoking on the Aberdeen campus, though only 10 percent of students voted.
• The university says the vote late last week was 247 in favor and 116 opposed. More than 3,600 students are enrolled at the university, and President Jim Smith says there was "not a groundswell of reaction from the student body on this issue."
• Faculty and staff will now be asked to weigh in on the proposal.
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Cattle on feed in South Dakota down 12 percent
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals had 230,000 cattle on feed on March 1, down 12 percent from last year.
• The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that placements in feedlots during February totaled 45,000 head, down 4 percent.
• Marketings of fed cattle during the month totaled 39,000 head, down 13 percent from 2012.
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