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• Authorities on Friday removed the 25-year-old woman and a baby from the home. The woman told police she had been held against her will since April 12 because Armstrong feared she would tell police he was staying at that home. Armstrong, 35, had various warrants out for his arrest in connection with another incident.
• The newspaper reported that the woman told police Armstrong regularly threatened to kill her. Police spokesman Sam Clemens said Armstrong assaulted the woman and raped her Friday before police arrived.
• The woman told police she left the home for work at one point between April 12 and May 30, but the man followed her all day. Police said the woman's employer called authorities after becoming suspicious.
• Clemens said the baby removed from the home Friday is Armstrong's child. He said Armstrong and the woman were involved in relationship before the kidnapping.
• Armstrong is in custody at the Minnehaha County Jail. Jail records do not list his attorney.
• Armstrong has a history of felony crimes. He was previously charged with aggravated assault for hitting a teenager with a golf putter. Authorities also accused him of stealing piping in 2012.
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EPA: South Dakota must cut emissions 35 percent
HENRY C. JACKSON, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- South Dakota will need to reduce its carbon emissions from power plants by nearly 35 percent by 2030 as part of a sweeping national proposal unveiled by the Obama administration Monday that is designed to reduce pollutants blamed for global warming.
• Overall carbon emissions for the country would be reduced by 17 percent nationwide from 2012 levels under the proposal, which is expected to be finalized in 2015. But the plan sets individual targets from the Environmental Protection Agency for each state, allowing some states to emit more pollutants than others. And it would give states until 2017, and possibly 2018 if they join with other states, to submit plans for how they will comply.
• Though South Dakota produces a lot of electricity from Missouri River dams and a growing number of wind farms, it consumes more fossil fuels.
• Brian Rounds, a staff analyst with the state Public Utilities Commission, said the state's electricity sources are roughly 65 percent from coal, 16.5 percent hydroelec (Continued on page 27)
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