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• "We could lose this seat very easily," he said. "We need more leadership and not a lot of rhetoric."
• The South Dakota Newspaper Association hosted Saturday's forum as part of its annual convention. Watertown Public Opinion publisher Mark Roby moderated. Questions came from three newspaper journalists: Jonathan Ellis of the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, Katie Zerr of the Mobridge Tribune and Lance Nixon of the Capital Journal in Pierre.
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AP News in Brief
Ukrainian minister: Security officer killed, 5 wounded in gunfight with pro-Russian militia
• SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine's interior minister says one security officer has been killed and five others have been wounded in a gunfight with pro-Russian militia.
• Arsen Avakov said in a Facebook post Sunday the Security Service officer was killed in Slovyansk where a police station was seized by camouflaged armed men.
• An Associated Press reporter on the ground didn't see any unrest there when he arrived.
• The unrest in Slovyansk and the nearby major industrial city Donetsk were the latest signs of spiraling anger in eastern Ukraine, which has a large Russian-speaking population.
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Black box batteries may be dead, making efforts to find missing Malaysian plane much harder
• PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airline, meaning the batteries on the all-important black boxes may have finally died.
• Despite having no new pings to go on, crews are continuing their search Sunday for debris and any sounds that could still be emanating. They're desperately trying to pinpoint where the Boeing 777 could be amid an enormous patch of deep ocean.
• No new electronic pings have been heard since April 8, and the batteries powering the locator beacons on the jet's black box recorders may already be dead. They only last about a month, and that window has passed. Once officials are confident (Continued on page 17)
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