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Falls police officer's fatal shooting of a man was justified.
• The attorney general released a report Thursday on the Oct. 14 shooting of 22-year-old Jacob Westberg at his northwest Sioux Falls trailer house.
• Investigators concluded officer Andrew Siebenborn acted appropriately.
• The report says Westberg was suicidal and drunk, was becoming increasingly belligerent and had already fired his shotgun inside the house when he stepped outside and pointed the empty weapon at officers outside.
• The document says Siebenborn was concerned for his safety and that of others and shot Westberg two times with his rifle.
• Westberg's parents and brother earlier said he was having problems with his ex-girlfriend and their young daughter but didn't need to be shot.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities have identified the man killed in a Tuesday night stabbing in Pierre as 43-year-old Stephen Jones of Fort Thompson.
• Pierre Police Capt. Elton Blemaster says the man who died had been involved in an incident with his brother, 46-year-old Clement Jones, also of Fort Thomson. He says Clement Jones also received knife wounds and is being treated at a hospital, where he is listed in fair condition.
• Blemaster says the incident remains under investigation, and no criminal charges have been filed.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota's Agriculture Department says some landowners who had their pine trees sprayed this year to protect them from mountain pine beetles have noted that trees are still being lost.
• State Forester Ray Sowers says some landowners with dozens to hundreds of trees sprayed by commercial services have reported losses at 20 percent to 60 percent. A normal loss with spraying is 0 percent to 3 percent.
• The department suggests that landowners with higher losses should contact their spray companies.
• Tree sprayers say the method is still the best way to protect trees, as once beetles infest a tree there are no treatments that can save it.
• Pine trees are sprayed in the spring and early summer to protect the trees from attack by the mountain pine beetle.

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