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Neb. man gets jail for hiding son from prison
• SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) -- A Nebraska man has been given jail time for allowing his son to stay at his home after escaping from a minimum-security prison in South Dakota.
• Robert Thorngren, of South Sioux City, was sentenced Monday in Dakota County Court to 220 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge of accessory to a felony. He must pay a $500 fine.
• The Sioux City Journal (http://bit.ly/10TsmIS ) reports the 45-year-old Thorngren was arrested in March after his son, 30-year-old Travis Thorngren, went missing from South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. He had been serving a five-year sentence on a grand theft conviction in Lincoln County.
• Travis Thorngren pleaded not guilty to criminal impersonation. He is accused of giving a fake name when he was arrested.
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Herseth Sandlin rules out run for SD Senate seat
• CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Former South Dakota U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said Monday she will not seek the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Tim Johnson, removing herself from a contest expected to play a key role in determining which party controls the Senate after next year's election.
• Herseth Sandlin, 42, announced her decision on her Facebook page Monday morning and confirmed it to The Associated Press. The Democrat said she decided not to seek her party's nomination for the U.S. Senate because she wants to focus on her family and her job as an attorney and vice president for Raven Industries, a Sioux Falls-based company that makes an array of specialty products for the agricultural, aviation and construction industries.
• "I've decided not to run for office in 2014," Herseth Sandlin told The Associated Press before boarding a plane early Monday morning.
• On her Facebook page, Herseth Sandlin noted that many Democrats had urged her to run for the seat now held by Johnson, a fellow Democrat who announced earlier he will not seek a fourth term next year. She and her husband, Max, and their son, Zachary, live in Sioux Falls, and Herseth Sandlin said her son will be starting kindergarten next year just before the general election.
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