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• Slot machine revenue accounts for roughly two-thirds of the money won by Atlantic City's 11 casinos.
• The technology already exists to link slot machine jackpots. So-called progressive jackpots have been offered among different casinos in Atlantic City since 1989.
• The system will not be available in Delaware or New York casinos, which only offer video lottery terminals rather than slot machines, or in Pennsylvania, which does not offer wide-area progressive slot machines.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota Senate committee has referred a bill authorizing prenatal care for pregnant women in the country illegally to the appropriations committee.
• The Health and Human Services Committee voted 4-3 to refer the bill with a recommendation to pass.
• The bill would require state and federal Medicaid funds to cover the prenatal care of poor mothers in the country without legal permission.
• Supporters say it's necessary to save the lives of babies who become citizens as soon as they are born. They say it will save the state money because women and babies without prenatal care have expensive complications.
• Some committee members worry that referring the bill to appropriations to be added to the state budget would compromise the policy in it.
• It has already passed through the House.
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• BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) -- A former South Dakota State University student has been sentenced to eight years in prison with four of them suspended after pleading guilty to one count of intentionally exposing another person to the virus that causes AIDS.
• Nineteen-year-old Demetrius Colaites was sentenced on Tuesday.
• Colaites in January admitted to not using a condom during consensual sex with another student who did not know Colaites is HIV-positive. Prosecutors dropped other charges against Colaites as part of a plea deal.
• Various news outlets have reported that Colaites has had the virus his entire life.
• Colaites' attorney says South Dakota laws unfairly treat the few hundred people in the state who are HIV-positive. He says people from across the country reached out to his client to show their support.

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