• SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A murder warrant has been issued for a 20-year-old sought in the killing a Sioux City man whose body was found in a South Dakota ditch.
• Sioux City police said Wednesday that Martin Castellanos remains on the loose. Investigators say Castellanos is suspected of shooting to death 20-year-old Adrian Rojas Hernandez on Sunday morning in Sioux City. South Dakota authorities say Hernandez's partially burned body was found later Sunday in a ditch alongside a gravel road about five miles east of Interstate 29's Exit 64 between Canton and Sioux Falls.
• Sioux City police say 22-year-old Ricardo Jaime Vital has been arrested and charged as an accessory after the fact.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says an investigation has cleared a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper who shot and wounded a Rapid City man following a chase.
• The state Division of Criminal Investigation looked into the Sept. 30 shooting of 27-year-old William Chandler. The report released by Jackley says Trooper Mike Bock was justified in firing his gun.
• The report says Chandler was handcuffed and in the back of a patrol car when he somehow got one hand out of the restraints, slid into the driver's seat and took off. It says Bock fired through the back window at Chandler when the squad car began moving backward toward him.
• Chandler was hit in the right side of his face and neck. He survived and is facing numerous criminal charges.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City has spent nearly half a million dollars in the first week of a curbside pickup program for yard debris from the Oct. 4 blizzard that damaged or destroyed thousands of trees in the city of 68,000 people.
• A Minneapolis company was awarded the contract for the yard debris removal.

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