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Trial set for SD man in alleged ND store attack
• WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) -- A Nov. 6 jury trial has been scheduled for a South Dakota man accused of attacking a female store clerk with a pair of scissors in the North Dakota city of Wahpeton.
• Twenty-year-old Christopher Yellow Earrings, of Peever, has pleaded not guilty to felonious restraint, reckless endangerment and preventing arrest.
• Authorities allege that he entered a Family Dollar store on May 29, forced employees and customers into a back room, and inflicted a wound on the clerk that required stitches. Police say an officer also injured his thumb trying to arrest Yellow Earrings.
• Yellow Earrings could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted on all eight felony counts against him.
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AP News in Brief
Missing teen found safe in Idaho wilderness; suspected abductor killed
• CASCADE, Idaho (AP) -- A harrowing weeklong search for a missing California teenager ended Saturday when FBI agents rescued the girl and shot and killed her apparent kidnapper at a campsite deep in the Idaho wilderness.
• Hannah Anderson, 16, appeared to be uninjured and will be reunited soon with her father at a hospital, authorities said. Her suspected abductor, James Lee DiMaggio, 40, was killed after his campsite was found in Idaho's rugged Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, roughly 40 miles from the tiny town of Cascade.
• Hannah was taken to a hospital where crisis counselors and health care providers were assisting her. Her father was expected to arrive in Idaho on Sunday to reunite with her.
• "We will make sure she gets as much care as possible, physically and emotionally," said Andrea Dearden, a spokeswoman from the Ada County Sheriff's Department who has been leading the communication team for the interagency effort in Valley County.
• The shooting came after officers participating in a massive manhunt for the pair (Continued on page 16)
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