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pheasant hunting, even though population estimates were down 19 percent from August 2012 to August 2013.
• The commission also approved the acquisition of 165 acres of land, most in northwest Moody County, that will be used for wildlife management and public hunting. Funding for the $160,000 parcel comes from a grant and pheasant hunting and conservation groups in the state.
• While at Custer State Park for the meeting, commissioners toured the site of a future $5 million visitor center, which will include a theater.
• Park officials said they are working with an architect, expect to call for bids later this year and begin building in 2015. The project needs $1 million more to reach its funding goal.
• They expect to make a call for bids later this year and begin building in 2015.
• The commission will meet next month in Yankton
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Man arrested in 1996 slaying of Montana vet
• HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A South Dakota man will be sent to Montana to face a murder charge in the 1996 shooting death of a veterinarian who was seeing his ex-girlfriend, authorities said Friday.
• Montana prosecutors revived a deliberate homicide charge against Thomas Jaraczeski in the slaying of Bryan Rein, a 31-year-old veterinarian in the central Montana town of Geraldine.
• Rein was shot three times in his trailer with his own .357 Magnum on July 12, 1996, about a month and a half after Ann Wishman broke up with Jaraczeski and began dating the veterinarian.
• Jaraczeski was charged in 1998 and pleaded not guilty before the charge was dropped after a judge dismissed dog-tracking evidence prosecutors said linked Jaraczeski with the crime scene.
• Jaraczeski later got married and has been living in South Dakota, most recently in Brandon, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported.
• Montana prosecutors issued a new arrest warrant for Jaraczeski on April 25, charging him with deliberate homicide. He was arrested Wednesday night in Sioux Falls, and he waived his right to an extradition hearing, Minnehaha County authorities said.
• Montana Department of Justice officials would not say what new evidence they may have found in the case.
• "Several years ago, at the request of law enforcement, our Prosecution Services Bureau took another look at the case," Justice Department spokeswoman Anastasia (Continued on page 47)
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