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• The Minnehaha County Jail in Sioux Falls says 27-year-old Joseph Robert Patterson is no longer housed there.
• His attorney, Tim Rensch, confirmed Patterson's release and says there are no conditions on it. But Rensch says Patterson plans to stay in the area and defend himself.
• Patterson's bond was reduced to $750,000 on Monday, so he had to post $75,000.
• He's charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the death of Tyrese Robert Ruffin.
• Patterson is the boyfriend of Tyrese's mother.
• Peterson had just recently found out that Tyrese was his son.
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After the rain, a break in weather for SD farmers
CARSON WALKER, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- An expected break in the wet weather should give South Dakota corn farmers at least a few days to get back in the field before another storm system arrives.
• The state's corn harvest was 49 percent complete as of Sunday, well behind last year's 99 percent and slightly behind the 55 percent average, according to the weekly crop progress report from the National Agriculture Statistics Service.
• "The rain is going to slow harvest progress for another three or four days here," Kent Mulder with CHS Eastern Farmers Cooperative in Brandon said Tuesday. "Then the forecast looks pretty good, so we'd expect that we'll be able to finish the harvest."
• Todd Heitkamp, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, said another storm could cover much of the state again by the middle of next week -- typical for this time of year. "Pretty par for the course to have a little more active weather season with the change of seasons," he said.
• Carter Anderson, state director of the National Agriculture Statistics Service, said last year's harvest was early because farmers got the crop in much earlier than usual.
• "Last year was an abnormal harvest year and we're really on about average," he said.
• Soybean prices of $12.25 a bushel are decent, but the price of corn, at around $4 a bushel, is falling because of a large harvest, Mulder said.
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