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• The Highway Patrol says 1 ½-year-old Adryan Jones died Wednesday in a Sioux Falls hospital.
• The boy's mother, 21-year-old Sarah Mozley, of Gregory, died last Sunday from her injuries. She and her child were passengers in one of the vehicles involved in the Feb. 24 crash.
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• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- The longtime president and CEO of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton is retiring.
• Pamela Rezac says she plans to step down June 27, after 17 years leading the hospital.
• Rezac began her decades-long career in health care as a registered nurse at a hospital in Mitchell. In 1997 she was named to lead Avera Sacred Heart Hospital and to serve as regional president of Avera. The region includes 15 counties in southeastern South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska and serves more than 150,000 people.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City-based jeweler with dozens of stores in the Midwest is buying a company that has been making Black Hills gold jewelry for 136 years.
• Riddle's Group Inc. announced Thursday it had purchased Landstrom's Original Black Hills Gold Creations' manufacturing and wholesale division for an undisclosed price. Landstrom's also is based in Rapid City.
• Riddle's did not acquire the rights to Landstrom's name, but has agreed to license it and use it. Landstrom's name recognition was a major reason Riddle's wanted to make the deal, according to Riddles Chief Financial Officer David Westergaard. It also made sense from a business standpoint, he said.
• "The decision to merge was due to a mutual desire to combine manufacturing and marketing efforts to achieve certain economies of scale and opportunities for diversification," Westergaard said in a statement. "Overall, we feel the climate in the Black Hills -- and nationwide -- is strong for American-made products."
• Riddles does not plan to change the day-to-day operation of Landstrom's. Robert Lemley, grandson of founder Ivan Landstrom, retains the rights to the Landstrom's

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