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• USDA's final corn and sunflower production report is due out Jan. 10, and the official estimates will include some corn and sunflower farmers' best guesses as to what their actual production will be.
• "This year, given the percentage that's been harvested, it may not be as big of an issue," Jantzi said.
• Even if USDA ends up revising its estimate next spring, the difference in numbers is not likely to be big enough to influence commodity markets, based on history, he said.

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.

Shot fired in armed robbery of Sioux Falls store

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls police are searching for two suspects in a convenience store robbery in which a shot was fired at a clerk.
• Authorities say two men entered the Cubby's store about 1 a.m. Friday, both armed with semi-automatic handguns. They robbed the clerk of an undetermined amount of money, and one of them fired a shot as they were fleeing the store. The bullet missed the clerk.
• Authorities say the suspects should be considered armed and dangerous.

AP News in Brief
North Korea deports elderly US tourist who advised South Korean guerrillas during war

• SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Saturday freed an 85-year-old U.S.

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