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•  A psychiatrist for the state and defense attorney Paul Winter say 29-year-old April Solles was suffering from depression at the time of the incidents in mid-2011.
•  Solles faces up to 30 years in prison when she's sentenced Sept. 23, though prosecutor Tracy Decker says the sentence could be a mix of prison time and time in a mental health institution.
•  The case started unfolding late in 2011 when Solles' 1-year-old girl died of a head injury. A 14-year-old boy was charged with murder in juvenile court but authorities haven't said if he is the same boy in the rape case.
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2 to be inducted into SD Transportation Honor Hall

•  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Two people are being inducted into the South Dakota Transportation Hall of Honor next month.
•  A banquet will be held Sept. 5 in Rapid City for Dennis Landguth of Rapid City, a long-time employee of the South Dakota Department of Transportation.
•  A banquet will be held Sept. 18 in Sioux Falls for Bob Meister of Kalispell, Mont., a former highway superintendent in Union and Minnehaha counties.
•  Tickets for the banquets can be purchased from the state Transportation Department.
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Sioux Falls man gets 70 years for raping girl, 6

•  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls man is going to prison on a 70-year term for raping a 6-year-old girl.
•  A judge sentenced 30-year-old Christopher George Hartford Monday. He pleaded guilty in June to two counts of first-degree rape.
•  According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Hartford knows the girl and she told a classmate that he was giving sex with her.
•  Police say the contact happened multiple times.
•  Prosecutors say the girl reported the abuse in January while at school.
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'Wild Bill' Hickok's pistol going up for auction

•  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A San Francisco auction house says it's selling the gun "Wild Bill" Hickok was wearing when he was shot and killed.
•  Bonhams announced Monday that it will auction off the Smith & Wesson No. 2 revolver in November. It was on Hickok when Jack McCall shot him in the South Dakota town of Deadwood in 1876.

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