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Bond set for SD teens accused in fatal shooting
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Bond has been set for two Watertown high school students accused of killing a man and assaulting his father in a botched home robbery attempt in Sioux Falls.
• Bond for 18-year-old Brian Anderson is set at $1 million cash and for 17-year-old Trevor Kruthoff at $500,000 cash. Both are charged in adult court with murder, attempted murder, robbery, burglary and aggravated assault. They appeared in court Thursday but did not enter pleas.
• The two are accused in the shooting death Monday of 20-year-old Jordan LeBeau and the wounding of his 48-year-old father.
• Two 20-year-old Dell Rapids men are accused of helping plan the robbery.
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'Ice Friday' bears down on Texas, much of Midwest
• NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press
• DALLAS (AP) -- As Texas residents prepared for what one hardware store manager called "Ice Friday," schools started canceling classes and thousands of shoppers jammed store aisles to buy milk, pet food and other supplies.
• Earlier this week, many in Texas were basking in spring-like temperatures hitting the 80s. But by Thursday, Texas was facing the same wintry blast that's hitting much of the U.S., bringing frigid temperatures, ice and snow.
• At a Dallas Home Depot, manager James McGilberry said the store was already running out of firewood and ice melt on Thursday afternoon, as freezing rain and wind began hitting the region. Residents were preparing for a storm that threatened to slicken highways, freeze power lines -- and leave them stranded through the weekend.
• "It's almost like a Black Friday," McGilberry said, "but I guess we'll call it an Ice Friday."
• The National Weather Service issued winter storm and ice warnings through much of Friday for parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. Some parts of the Midwest were expected to see several inches of snow.
• The system has already dumped 1 to 2 feet of snow in parts of Minnesota and (Continued on page 14)
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