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• Company owner Michael Feilmeier says Agile Manufacturing also is making additional investments in its Iowa facility.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A western South Dakota couple convicted of neglecting horses last winter have been sentenced to jail.
• Don Harwood was given a five-year term and his wife, Terri, a one-year term. They each will be on probation for several years after their jail time.
• Magistrate Judge Shawn Pahlke gave Don Harwood a lengthier jail term because he did not cooperate with a presentence investigation and because of his criminal record, which includes drug and driving under the influence convictions.
• Law officers in January seized 69 horses at the Harwoods' Rapid Valley home. Authorities say the horses did not have food or water. A jury in August convicted the Harwoods on nine counts each of inhumane treatment of an animal.
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• DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (AP) -- The governors of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota have urged federal lawmakers to end the partial government shutdown.
• South Dakota's Dennis Daugaard (DOO'-gahrd), Nebraska's Dave Heineman (HYE'-neh-mehn) and Iowa's Terry Branstad (BRAN-'stad) gathered in Dakota Dunes, S.D., on Wednesday for their Tri-State Governors' Conference and discussed what the shutdown had done to their states. All three are Republicans.
• The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/GQuLlh) that Daugaard and Heineman said the shutdown's chief impact has been the loss of National Guard jobs.
• Daugaard also said the uncertainty caused by the shutdown "is not helpful to any of our economies."
• Heineman says both parties are at fault for the situation in Washington, and Branstad says President Barack Obama should stop attacking the Republican leadership in Congress, because that lessens chances of compromise.
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