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• Arendt said Long Fox will now demand a trial on the grand theft charge.
• "I believe there's reasonable doubt about the allegation he committed grand theft," Arendt said.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley was traveling Thursday and was not immediately

available to comment on the ruling, his office said.
• The Supreme Court said the portion of the plea bargain that required Long Fox to plead guilty to grand theft after violating probation cannot be enforced because it took away his constitutional right to voluntarily enter a plea of his choice. The trial judge was wrong to find that Long Fox was bound by the plea bargain and could not get a jury trial, the justices said.
• "Therefore, in this case, Long Fox never voluntarily, of his own choice, entered a plea of guilty to grand theft," Chief Justice David Gilbertson wrote for the high court.
• Justice John K. Konenkamp, in a separate writing, said deferred prosecutions are used in other cases, but South Dakota has no laws setting standards or procedures for such deferrals. He said the South Dakota Legislature might want to consider passing laws to set those standards and answer questions about how deferred prosecutions can be used.
• "Without legislation, these questions may well be resolved only haphazardly through court rulings like the one today," Konenkamp wrote.
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• ALLEN, S.D. (AP) -- The National Weather Service has determined that storm damage in the South Dakota town of Allen was caused by a small tornado.
• The weather service sent an investigator to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation community of about 420 people after the Tuesday storm. The official concluded that the tornado touched down briefly on the south edge of Allen.
• It smashed a mobile home, tore the roof and several walls from another home, and damaged the roofs of several other houses. No injuries were reported.
• The tornado was rated EF1 on the enhanced Fujita scale, which ranks the strength of twisters on a scale of zero to five. Wind speeds were estimated between 105 mph and 110 mph.
• A group of teenagers weathered the storm in a church hallway.
• "These kids are tough," Jacky Carnahan of Hastings, Neb., told The Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/17yN2PV). Carnahan brought eight teenagers to the Pine Ridge reservation on Sunday. The group joined teens from Wyoming to help with a week

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