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has ties to the Dakotas.
• Dave Joerger (YAY-gehr) won an International Basketball Association title and two Continental Basketball Association crowns with the Bismarck, N.D.-based Dakota Wizards. A third CBA championship came as coach of the Sioux Falls, S.D., Skyforce in 2005.
• He won a fifth minor league championship in 2007 with the Dakota Wizards after they had moved to the NBA Development League. The team has since moved to Santa Cruz, Calif.
• The 39-year-old Joerger was introduced as coach of the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday. He had been the team's lead assistant coach.
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ND murder suspect was court-martialed by Army
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A man accused of killing a South Dakota man who had recently moved to North Dakota ben discharged from the U.S. Army in February for bad conduct.
• Theo Crowe, 25, of Trenton, was court-martialed at Fort Hood, Texas, on allegations involving theft, drugs and assault, and found guilty of misconduct, Ray Gall, a spokesman for the Army Human Resources Command, told The Bismarck Tribune.
• Crowe, who enlisted in January 2009, was a combat engineer and held the rank of private. Nearly half of his time in the service was spent in confinement, Gall said.
• Crowe is charged with murder in the apparent death of John Swain, 18, who had recently moved from Sioux Falls, S.D., to Bismarck, N.D. Swain went missing in mid-May.
• Authorities on Wednesday recovered a body at a Montana home owned by Crowe's grandmother, Bismarck Police Deputy Chief Randy Ziegler told the Tribune. Officials with the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Department were serving a search warrant at the home in Poplar, Mont., on Wednesday when they discovered the body, he said.
• Bismarck police said in a release that the body found was connected to the Swain homicide investigation, and that an autopsy was planned to identify it. Roosevelt County Sheriff Freedom Crawford referred calls to Bismarck police.
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