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• Parts of the Midwest were also getting rare May snow.
• South Dakota's largest city, Sioux Falls, got its first May snowfall in 37 years. The city received 1.5 inches of snow by late morning.
• A winter storm warning was also in effect for parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Snow fell in parts of Nebraska, and western Iowa was expecting snow between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
• The storm is welcome in Colorado and Wyoming because it boosts the snowpack that provides the region's water supply. Both states are in a drought but have benefited from several rounds of spring snow. However, the recent storms have largely missed southwestern Colorado, which remains dry and at risk for wildfires.
• About 5 inches were forecast for Denver, where the snow was making the roads a sloppy mess. The snow wasn't sticking much to the pavement, still warm after recent temperatures in the 70s, but it clung to grassy areas and flowers.
• Denver native Chris Lujan said he's never worn a top coat, scarf and hat on May 1 before.
• Greg Notz just put his hood up and wasn't fazed.
• "I expect this. Yup. It's better than living where it's warm and dry and nice all the time. At least we get a variety," he said.
• Snow hits Denver in May roughly once every three years. July and August are the only months that snow hasn't been recorded there, National Weather Service forecaster David Barjenbruch said.
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Jury finds defendants guilty in Bakken oil scam
MATTHEW BROWN,Associated Press
• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The four remaining defendants in a Bakken oil leasing scam that duped unwitting investors across the country out of hundreds of thousands of dollars were found guilty on most charges on Wednesday by a Montana jury.
• The verdicts against Steven William Carpenter, 56, Suzette Gulyas Gal, 55, Andras Zoltan Gal, 22, and Krisztian Zoltan George Gal, 29, followed a seven-day U.S. District Court trial before Judge Sam Haddon.
• They were part of a scam that authorities said netted $673,000 from more than 50 investors, many of them elderly who were promised lucrative returns on fictitious oil and gas projects on Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
• Carpenter, Suzette Gal and Andras Gal were found guilty on one count each of conspiracy to commit fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud. The jury found Krisztian Gal (Continued on page 20)
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