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• In Rapid City, golf courses were still dealing with the effects of blizzards in April and October last year. The spring and early fall snowstorms resulted in thousands fewer rounds of golf being played, hurting the courses financially. The October blizzard damaged or destroyed hundreds of trees.
• Patterson said it's odd to be hit with storms so early and so late in the season.
• "This winter has lasted for seven months already," she said.
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SD man gets 57 months in prison in assault case
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for cutting a woman's legs and back with a wooden stick.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson on Monday announced that a federal judge sentenced 25-year-old Richard Bear Runner to four years and nine months in prison. Bear Runner was also ordered to spend three years on supervised release.
• Bear Runner was previously convicted by a federal jury on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
• Authorities say Bear Runner assaulted a woman with a wooden stick on September 2012 in Porcupine. The stick had a sharp hook on it and caused multiple cuts on the woman's legs and back.
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Number of Navajo homicides tops some metro areas
FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press
• FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- New FBI statistics show the vast Navajo Nation saw a sharp increase in the murder rate in 2013 and finished the year with 42 homicides, eclipsing major metropolitan areas with less space and far more people, such as Seattle and Boston.
• About 180,000 people live on the reservation that spans 27,000 square miles in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. It's a place where culture and language thrive but where jobs are scarce, alcoholism is among the greatest social ills, and cycles of violence and lack of access to basic necessities can stifle people's spirits.
• When those factors combine, "you're always going to find higher crime rates," said McDonald Rominger, head of the FBI's office in northern Arizona. "There's a correlation."
• The number of people killed on the Navajo Nation increased from 34 in 2012, representing a per-capita murder rate of 18.8 per 100,000 people -- four times the national rate. The FBI has not yet released a national murder rate for 2013.
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