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successful in drawing foreign investment to the state.
• The South Dakota International Business Institute was developed in 1994 as a cooperative effort between the state of South Dakota and Northern State University in Aberdeen.
• Jim Smith said that when he took over as Northern State University's president in 2009, he recognized that the institute was focusing mostly on EB-5 work and wasn't integrated with classroom teachings, so Bollen moved off campus and signed a state contract to do the same job as SDRC Inc.
• Rounds said it was a strategic decision to separate the state from the regional center roles of marketing the projects to investors and overseeing the financing, since the EB-5 money was from private donors going to private companies.
• He said South Dakota officials continued to audit any state funds going to economic development projects.
• Tidemann said the operations and audit committee didn't have the opportunity to ask questions of the SDRC again.
• "We never saw it again that much," he said.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Free drop sites taking carcasses of livestock killed in the early October blizzard will close next week.
• The Pennington County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to close the Livestock Loss Drop Points near Owanka and Quinn on Thursday, Nov. 14.
• The county says that since the sites opened Oct. 14, 487 carcasses have been removed from county rights of way and an unknown number of animals came from private land.
• State officials have estimated that between 15,000 and 30,000 cattle were lost in the storm.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A smallmouth bass pulled from Horseshoe Lake in northeastern South Dakota last month is a state record.
• The Game, Fish and Parks Department says the 7 pound fish was caught by Derek Valnes of Brandon. It topped the previous record of 6 pounds, 9 ounces. That fish was pulled from Lake Poinsett in 2008.
• Valnes' bass was 21 1/2 inches long and had a girth of 18 inches. It marks the

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