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Sioux Falls police: 1 dead, 1 injured in shooting
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities in Sioux Falls are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another person wounded.
• Police say they were called about 3 p.m. Monday to a home in the northwest part of the city, where one person died from a gunshot wound and a second person was shot.
• Police say investigators are working to determine what happened and who is responsible.
• They did not release the names and ages of the victims. No other details were released.
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Democratic lawmaker wants forensic audit of EB-5
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Democratic state lawmaker wants the Legislature to schedule a special session to authorize an independent forensic audit of South Dakota's participation in a federal investment-for-green-cards immigration program.
• Rep. Kathy Tyler of Big Stone City said her House and Senate colleagues will find a copy of the petition on their chamber desks when they arrive in Pierre on Tuesday for Gov. Dennis Daugaard's budget speech.
• Tyler said Monday that state investigations into alleged misconduct and the death of a former economic development official have failed to examine South Dakota's participation in the federal EB-5 program and the extent of its oversight of SDRC Inc., a private company contracted to solicit foreign investors.
• The South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic has asked the Department of Legislative Audit to conduct a complete audit of the agency from 2009 through 2013, but Tyler said that effort will do little to answer questions about how money flowed through the EB-5 program.
• "These audits are not forensic audits," she said during a news conference Monday. "They do not follow the money."
• GOED for years contracted with the privately held SDRC Inc. to administer the federal EB-5 program, in which foreign investors can secure permanent residency for as little as $500,000. The program helped fund several large projects in the state, including the idled Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen.
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