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Akron levee break lowered Big Sioux River crest
• DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A National Weather Service hydrologist says the Big Sioux River peaked earlier and lower than expected at Sioux City because significant water was released when a levee failed upstream.
• National Weather Service Hydrologist Mike Gillispie says the Tuesday night levee failure 27 miles upstream at Akron, Iowa, allowed water to spill onto agricultural land, dropping the river level downstream.
• The river had been expected to crest Friday at Sioux City about a foot above the 108.3-foot record set in 1969. Instead it peaked at about 105 feet overnight and began dropping.
• Gillispie says the river at Sioux City will stay elevated longer than previously predicted.
• He expects the river to fall below the 99-foot flood stage, the level at which farmland around Sioux City is underwater, by Monday morning.
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South Dakota teen to be tried as adult
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Attorneys for a Watertown teenager charged in a fatal shooting in Sioux Falls have lost an attempt to keep the case in juvenile court.
• The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/TdH2qq ) that Judge Brad Zell ruled this week that Trevor Kruthoff's case will stay in adult court.
• Kruthoff was 17 when he was charged with murder in the December shooting death of 20-year-old Jordan LeBeau. Kruthoff, now 18, also is accused of shooting and wounding LeBeau's 48-year-old father.
• Authorities said the shooting resulted from a botched robbery attempt tied to drug dealing, and several other people also face charges in the case.
• Kruthoff's defense lawyers argued the case belonged in juvenile court and argued that Kruthoff's behavior was uncharacteristic of most juveniles charged with violent crimes. His parents both testified during a hearing that he'd been given a stable home, and that the problems began when he started hanging out with a different group of friends in high school.
• Prosecutors said Kruthoff's crime was too serious for juvenile court. If convicted in juvenile court, he could be held only until age 21. If Kruthoff is convicted in adult court, he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
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