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• Another state law passed in 2009 listed 15 names that hadn't been changed and created the new state board to involve the public in the renaming effort.
• Board members said they have finished the work required in the 2009 law if the federal board accepts the suggested new names for places carrying the word "squaw" and if places including the word "Negro" do not have to be renamed. The board's proposed legislation would give it continued authority to handle name changes suggested by the public.

Bond ordered for Sioux Falls accessory suspects

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A judge has ordered $250,000 bond for two 20-year-old Dell Rapids men accused of helping to plan a robbery that left a Sioux Falls man dead.
• Kevin James Rice and Douglas Peter Scholten are charged with being accessories to robbery, burglary and aggravated assault. Police spokesman Sam Clemens said the two were not in the home at the time of the killing.
• Two Watertown High School students, Brian David Anderson, 18, and Trevor Kruthoff, 17, face the same charges as well as first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Jordan LeBeau. Authorities say LeBeau's 48-year-old father was shot and wounded when he tried to help his son.
• It was not immediately clear if Anderson or Kruthoff had attorneys. They're scheduled to be brought to Sioux Falls for a court appearance on Thursday.
• In court Wednesday afternoon, prosecutors said Rice and Scholten planned the robbery on LeBeau, enlisted Anderson and Kruthoff to carry it out and provided the loaded handgun used in the attack. Deputy State's Attorney Eric Johnson said Scholten and at least one other person identified Rice as a marijuana dealer, and that he had devised the plan to rob LeBeau of what he thought to be $100,000, the Argus Leader newspaper reported.
• Rice's defense lawyer, deputy public defender Ashley Sergeant, asked for lower bond, telling Judge John Hinrichs that her client was a business owner with strong ties to the Dell Rapids community.
• Scholten's lawyer, Tressa Zahrbock Kool, told the judge her client had cooperated with police from the start.
• Both lawyers reminded Judge Hinrichs that their clients were not accused in the killing.


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