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• A state board responsible for getting rid of offensive names planned to rename places with "Negro" in their names. But black leaders in Sioux Falls said the term is not offensive and should continue to be used to recognize the state's African American heritage.
• The Senate State Affairs Committee voted unanimously for a bill that specifically declares the word "squaw" offensive and bans its use in place names.
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SD court upholds synthetic marijuana conviction
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The state Supreme Court has upheld the conviction against the first South Dakotan charged with selling synthetic marijuana.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley says the ruling was unanimous in the case of Jason Toben, who managed the Chicago Avenue Bar in Goodwin.
• He sold synthetic marijuana before and after passage of a ban on many of the chemicals used to make the product.
• Toben was convicted in 2012 of possession and distribution of synthetic marijuana and sentenced to nine years in prison.
• He appealed, arguing the jury was improperly told he didn't have to know the product was illegal in order to be convicted.
• The Supreme Court disagreed, saying a person can't consciously avoid learning about a drug and later claim to know nothing about it.
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6th, 7th armed robberies in 11 days in Sioux Falls
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Police in Sioux Falls are investigating the sixth and seventh armed robberies in the city in 11 days.
• Authorities say a man armed with a knife walked into the Mercato convenience store shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday and stole two bottles of liquor. No one was hurt.
• Two men with a gun entered a Kum & Go store about 1:30 a.m. Friday and demanded cash before fleeing.
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