• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The prosecution has rested in the death penalty trial of a man who killed a South Dakota hospice nurse in her Sioux Falls home.
• Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for 43-year-old James McVay, who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murder for the 2011 stabbing of 75-year-old Maybelle Schein. McVay said he killed Schein and stole her car as part of a plot to drive to Washington and assassinate President Barack Obama. He got as far as Wisconsin before being arrested.
• Defense attorney Amber Eggert says McVay has a history of mental illness and his life should be spared, with a sentence of life in prison without parole.
• The sentencing trial is to resume Tuesday. McVay has not indicated whether he will testify in his own defense.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A few schools in eastern South Dakota are starting classes late, but a snow storm that passed through the region was not nearly as severe as expected.
• National Weather Service reports show only a few inches of snow in most locations from the Thursday storm, which forecasters say shifted more to the east.
• It was the third snowfall in the state this week. A system that passed through late Sunday into early Tuesday dumped several inches of snow in western and northeastern South Dakota, and western South Dakota got up to 8 inches on Wednesday.
• The snow isn't likely to stick around for long, with high temperatures statewide in the 30s, 40s and 50s through the weekend.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard is inviting communities across the state to apply to be South Dakota's Capital for a Day.
• The promotion involves a main street walk, business tours around town and a social hour. Daugaard also holds a roundtable lunch for community leaders to meet and discuss the needs of the city.

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