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• Gov. Dennis Daugaard says activities for the July 31 celebration will include a Main Street walk, business tours around town and a social hour. The governor will also hold a roundtable lunch for community leaders to meet and discuss the needs of the city.
• Recently retired Wall Mayor Dave Hahn says the selection is a wonderful blessing and honor.
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A 20-year-old Bismarck man was found guilty on murder conspiracy charges Wednesday in the death of an 18-year-old South Dakota man.
• Joshua Clark was found guilty on one count of conspiracy to commit murder, a class AA felony. Clark could be sentenced to life in prison for his role in the death of John Swain, who had recently moved to Bismarck from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, before he was killed on May 11, 2013, according to the Bismarck Tribune (http://bit.ly/U4OxAa ).
• Defense attorney Kent Morrow said Clark asked him Wednesday to file an appeal after he is sentenced.
• Authorities have said Clark and 26-year-old Theo Crowe killed Swain in May 2013, before cutting off his legs and hiding his body at the home of Crowe's grandmother in Poplar, Montana.
• Crowe pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in the case last October and was sentenced in January to life in prison.
• Morrow said there was no agreement between the two to murder Swain beforehand and called any thoughts otherwise "pure speculation."
• Testifying for the first time in his defense Wednesday, Clark said he hit Swain with a hammer after Crowe had because he feared what Crowe would do to him he didn't help. He said Crowe threatened to kill him if he didn't hit Swain.
• "I believed John Swain was already dead. There was nothing I could do to help him," he said.
• Clark said he helped clean up and later hid the hammer in fresh concrete at a home in north Bismarck.
• "He certainly didn't call for help; he certainly didn't run; he certainly didn't stop Theo," said Assistant State's Attorney Pamela Nesvig. "Why? Oh, that's right, he froze. He froze to everything except helping his co-conspirator."
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