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Man shot by Rapid City police gets 25 years
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A man who was shot after he threatened two Rapid City police officers with a butcher knife is going to prison on a 25-year sentence.
• Elijah White Magpie earlier pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of aggravated assault on a law officer.
• Judge Janine Kern sentenced the 21-year-old Tuesday, saying he's dangerous and unpredictable when he doesn't take his medication.
• State's Attorney Mark Vargo says officer Jerry Moore shot White Magpie as he attacked officer Marc Black with a large kitchen knife, and the blade came within three inches of Black's throat.
• Authorities say White Magpie had been using alcohol and marijuana before he threw a rock through a window at the public library, shattered a window in a parked van, threatened one officer and attacked the other.
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Man to stand trial for shootout, Pierre standoff
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- An Eagle Butte man is scheduled to stand trial April 8 on federal charges stemming from a fatal shootout and standoff in late October.
• Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Todd Garreau is charged with 19 federal counts related to the Oct. 30 shootout in Hyde County and an Oct. 31 standoff with law enforcement at a Pierre trailer court.
• During the shootout, 24-year-old John Garreaux, of Dupree, was killed. In the nine-hour standoff at the Pierre trailer home, two police officers were wounded by gunfire.
• Garreau also has been charged in Hughes County court with two counts of attempted first-degree murder for the Oct. 31 standoff.
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Animal cruelty could become felony in South Dakota
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Animal cruelty could become a felony in South Dakota under a proposal intended to end years of debate on the subject by satisfying the concerns both of animal welfare groups and livestock producers, State Veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven said Tuesday.
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