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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Federal jurors in Sioux Falls have convicted a woman of not paying taxes on more than $600,000 earned from exotic dances over four years.
• Court documents show 42-year-old Veronica Fairchild, of Canistota, and Okoboji, Iowa, was found guilty last week of four counts of tax fraud.
• Each charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in custody and a $250,000 fine.
• Prosecutors say she filed late tax returns in 2010 from 2005 through 2008 and claimed the unreported income from performing private shows as an exotic dancer was a gift.
• Fairchild could not be reached and her defense attorneys did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A 23-year-old Gann Valley woman has been sentenced to 130 years in prison for beating to death a 4-year-old boy because he wet his pants.
• Donika Gonzales has been ordered to serve 130 years for first-degree manslaughter and 15 years for aggravated assault. The sentences will run concurrently. Attorney General Marty Jackley and Brule County States Attorney David Natvig announced the sentencing Tuesday afternoon.
• The charges stem from an abuse incident on Feb. 21, 2013, that resulted in the boy's death. The boy was not Gonzales' son.
• This case was investigated by the Buffalo County Sheriff's Office and the Division of Criminal Investigation and prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office and the Brule County States Attorney.
• Gann Valley is about an hour west of Mitchell.
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• OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The economy in nine Midwestern and Plains states should continue growing steadily in the months ahead, according to a monthly survey of business leaders released Tuesday.
• The region's overall economic index crept up to 60.6 in June from May's 60.5 to hit another three-year high.
• Creighton University economist Ernie Goss, who oversees the survey, said the

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