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prison in South Dakota. • Fifty-six-year-old John Whitfield Jr., of Houston, was convicted earlier this year of possessing drugs and paraphernalia while overseeing children's rides at the Sioux Empire Fair in Sioux Falls. • He was arrested Aug. 3 after authorities said they intercepted a package containing the doll stuffed with 37 grams of crack cocaine worth more than $8,000 on the street. Police say they found more drug evidence in Whitfield's truck. • Whitfield's attorney unsuccessfully argued at trial that her client never saw or possessed the package • Whitfield was sentenced Tuesday to the prison time and also ordered to pay more than $8,000 in court costs. •
10 Things to Know for Today The Associated Press
• • Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: • • 1. DONETSK TO GO AHEAD WITH AUTONOMY VOTE • Pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine decide to hold referendum on Sunday despite calls from Putin to postpone it. • • 2. WHAT MAY RAISE POLITICAL STAKES FOR MIDTERM ELECTIONS • House Republicans are set to begin a special probe of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and Democrats are considering a boycott of the committee. • • 3. SENATE POISED TO GRILL POTENTIAL SEBELIUS SUCCESSOR • Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Obama's nominee to take over the federal health care agency -- and assume responsibility for "Obamacare" -- begins confirmation hearing. • • 4. BOKO HARAM KILLS HUNDREDS IN BUSY MARKETPLACE • The attack escalates Nigeria's growing crisis from the campaign of bombings, massacres and abductions being waged by the Islamic militants. •
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