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keep technical education affordable because the state has a high demand for workers in areas such as engineering, information technology and manufacturing.
• The department says more than 2,000 students graduated from the schools in 2013. Education officials say 87 percent of those students are employed.
• The institutes are located in Watertown, Mitchell, Sioux Falls and Rapid City.
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Trial set for man accused of killing ex-girlfriend
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities have scheduled the jury trial for a western South Dakota man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her unborn child.
• The trial of 32-year-old Michael Young is expected to begin Aug. 12. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and fetal homicide charges.
• His attorney did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.
• Authorities allege that Young stabbed 30-year-old Morgan Myers to death in a Wal-Mart parking lot on April 2012. Myers was pregnant with his child.
• He is being held without bond at the Pennington County Jail.
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SD Supreme Court hears legal malpractice case
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A dispute that began over the placement of beehives and evolved into an issue of legal malpractice has reached the South Dakota Supreme Court.
• Justices listened to initial arguments in a final appeal Monday in Vermillion at the University of South Dakota Law School.
• The case goes back to 2007 with a business lawsuit over the use and registration of private property for beehives. Three beekeepers shared lawyers. When the attorneys came up with a settlement, one of the beekeepers, Roger Hamilton of northeast South Dakota, didn't agree to comply with it.
• Hamilton filed a legal malpractice suit against his original lawyers for negligence.
• Those original attorneys won the case in a Roberts County circuit court. One argued Monday that this case indulges "buyer's remorse" after settlements.
• One of the beekeeper's current attorneys, Dan Rasmus, disagreed.
• "It's not a question about a do-over; it's a question about justice," Rasmus said.
• The testimony Monday focused on which rules the state should use to govern best practices for attorneys, and therefore to determine whether the attorneys in the original lawsuit were negligent.
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