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• Residents are invited to attend the 7 p.m. ceremony at Sioux Falls' Veterans' Memorial Park.
• A concert band will perform and there will be a dedication of a new paver kiosk.
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California man gets 2 years in prison in wind scam
• CASPER, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal judge has sentenced a California man to two years in prison for his role in defrauding investors by promoting non-existent wind farm projects in Wyoming and South Dakota.
• U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Thursday also ordered that 55-year-old Joseph Richard Adams of Los Angeles share responsibility for restitution estimated at $4.5 million.
• Adams pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud last August, the first of the five defendants to plead guilty. The other four defendants are set for sentencing this summer before Skavdahl.
• Federal prosecutors say defendants used aliases and the company names Mountain State Power Group, Mountain State Power and Sovereign Energy Partners. Prosecutors say they urged people to invest in wind farms that were never built.
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SD Supreme Court upholds law making bigamy a crime
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state law that makes bigamy a crime, a decision that will allow South Dakota prosecutors to pursue a charge against a North Dakota man.
• Michael Clements was living in Ashley, N.D., when he was charged with bigamy for marrying a woman in Aberdeen, S.D., in June 2011 before his divorce was final in a 2009 North Dakota marriage, according to court records.
• However, Circuit Judge Scott Myren dismissed the charge, ruling that because Clements' second marriage was never valid, it was impossible for him to have committed bigamy by being married to two women at the same time.
• The Supreme Court's unanimous ruling overturned the circuit judge's decision. The justices said dismissing the charge on the basis that bigamy is a legal impossibility would nullify the state law making bigamy a crime.
• The high court said it agrees with courts in other states that bigamy is committed when someone enters into a purported marriage contract while still married to someone else.
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