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• "I know Mr. Beck was anxious to put all this behind him," said attorney Mark Friese, who entered Beck's guilty plea in court on Monday. "This was a relief for him . to accept responsibility and to put it behind him."
• The charge stemmed from a fight in early June in which police said Beck knocked a man unconscious. Prosecutors had previously dismissed a more serious charge of felony aggravated assault after concluding there was no proof Beck started the altercation.
• The 6-foot, 212-pound native of Munich, N.D., is a two-year starter for the two-time Football Championship Subdivision champions. He was the most valuable player in the 2012 FCS championship game.
• Beck has been in trouble with the law before. He was fined $325 and sentenced to 40 hours of community service after pleading guilty to misdemeanor underage drinking in July 2012. Prosecutors dropped a charge of resisting arrest as part of that plea agreement.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A crew started work Monday to remove the century-old stained glass from the peak of the South Dakota Capitol's dome as part of a project to restore the glass in four areas of the building.
• Workers removed panels of stained glass from the dome, placed them in a protective crate and then used ropes to lower the crate 96 feet to the rotunda floor.
• The stained glass in the dome is the first to be removed. Workers later will remove stained glass from skylight installations above the House and Senate chambers and above the grand marble staircase between the Capitol's second and third floors.
• Officials said a recent assessment found problems caused by age, gravity, original material and design weaknesses in the stained glass installed in 1909. Without repair, the glass could start to fail, they said.
• The stained glass panels will be shipped to Conrad Schmitt Studios near Milwaukee, where they will be dismantled, repaired and rebuilt. New structural supports will be added to ensure long-term strength before the panels are reinstalled.
• Kevin Grabowski of Conrad Schmitt Studios said the project is complicated because the stained glass is high above the floor and in poor condition. The stained glass will be cleaner, brighter and safer once it's reinstalled, he said.
• "Most of it is going to be peace of mind, knowing they are very stable and will be so for more than 100 years," Grabowski said.
• Plans call for the stained glass to be repaired and reinstalled by South Dakota's

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