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• WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities say a 4-year-old girl has died after almost drowning in a Watertown lake.
• KDLT-TV reports that police were called to Lake Kampeska in Watertown on Thursday evening shortly after 5 p.m.
• The child was out of the water and being given CPR when crews arrived.
• The girl was transported to Prairie Lakes Hospital in Watertown and then airlifted to Sioux Falls. She died at the hospital.
• The name of the girl has not been released.
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• SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities say two people have been killed in separate motor vehicle accidents in the Nebraska Panhandle.
• The Nebraska State Patrol says a 38-year-old woman died Wednesday morning after she lost control of her sport utility vehicle on a Sheridan County road about a mile east of Rushville. She was identified as Joni Lee Twiss, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
• The patrol says a Colorado man died after an accident about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on Nebraska Highway 71 about nine miles north of the Colorado state line. The patrol says 71-year-old Jesus Javalera-Chavez, of Colorado Springs, swerved his vehicle to miss an object on the roadway. The vehicle went into a roadside ditch and rolled.
• The patrol says Javalera-Chavez died at the scene.
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• PIERPONT, S.D. (AP) -- SDSU Extension is hosting the Saline and Sodic Soil Management Workshop and Field Tour on Tuesday.
• The event from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. features soil experts and specialists and a field tour.
• Morning topics include redefining saline and sodic soil classifications, issues with salty soils and management options. Afternoon sessions will cover soil stability tests, mapping saline soils on the farm, tools to measure soil salinity and questions to ask when submitting soils for salt analysis.
• Visits to the field site will include a soil pit to demonstrate issues with saline/sodic soils, soil amendment plots and a discussion about salt type in fields and potential

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