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fall. Higher prices are good for farmers selling grain, but they increase the cost of feed for livestock producers using corn-based feed for cattle, chickens and pigs.
• Food prices aren't likely to be affected much by the change.
• Farmers also are expected to produce a record soybean crop if the latest USDA estimates hold true. Thursday's report shows an expected harvest of 3.4 billion bushels, better than the 3.36 billion bushels produced in 2009.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court says a Sioux Falls company does not have to pay worker's compensation insurance benefits to the estate of an employee who was shot and killed by her estranged husband in the company's parking lot.
• Thirty-eight-year-old Julie Diane Tassler was killed by her husband, Steven Dean Tassler on Dec. 24, 2008, when she took a morning break in the parking lot of HSBC Card Services. He then killed himself.
• Julie Tassler's estate sought worker's compensation benefits, arguing her death arose out of her employment. The estate contended her workplace was the only place her husband would kill her because he would not assault her in front of their children.
• But the Supreme Court says the slaying arose from a personal dispute, not because of employment.
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• LOWER BRULE, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. Marshal's Service says one of the four inmates who escaped from a jail in Lower Brule is wanted on a federal charge of violating parole.
• Authorities say 21-year-old Troy Fairbanks was being held by the Lower Brule Tribe on allegations of domestic assault. He's wanted by the Marshal's Service for violating terms of his supervised release on a previous burglary conviction.
• Fairbanks and three others broke out of the jail Tuesday night. One of the inmates has since been captured by Bureau of Indian Affairs officers.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a man's convictions and life sentence in the fatal stabbing of another man in a Sioux Falls

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