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• Jacobson said it was 24 degrees below zero in Wahpeton early Monday with a wind chill of 45 below -- cold but not unusual, and weather that usually doesn't stop students from pursuing other activities such as going to the mall.
• "It was a typical North Dakota winter day that you always go through at every year at some point," he said.
• Pierre Superintendent Kelly Glodt said he received no complaints about his decision to hold classes Monday. About three-fourths of the student body showed up. Students who stayed home did not have it counted against their attendance.
• "I got thank you emails from some (parents), saying, 'I had to go to work. I would have had to arrange day care,'" Glodt said.
• Viola LaFontaine, superintendent in the northwestern North Dakota city of Williston, said she had no regrets about calling off classes Monday, when the wind chill in the city reached 46 degrees below zero, despite some criticism via Facebook from working parents who had to find day care for their children.
• Monday was the first day classes have been canceled in Williston due to bad winter weather in about two decades, according to LaFontaine.
• "This doesn't happen very often," she said. "I think parents need to have a backup plan, whether we have to call off school due to weather or a water break."
• Warmer Pacific air promised to bring a relative heat wave to the Dakotas by the end of the week, with the National Weather Service forecasting daytime highs in the 20s and 30s in much of the two states Thursday into the weekend.
• "It'll be a change, won't it?" meteorologist Janine Vining said with a chuckle.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The former director of the South Dakota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is charged with aggravated domestic assault after an alleged altercation in his home.
• Thirty-three-year-old Robert Doody is accused of choking his wife during a fight Saturday. The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/KAhKPi ) that he faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
• Doody's lawyer says his client's wife was the aggressor, and that she was upset in part because Doody had filed for divorce.
• Doody was head of the state's ACLU from 2008 until he stepped down last spring, citing personal and health reasons. He now practices law in Sioux Falls.
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