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Delaware governor's attorney 'eager to defend' Delaware's party-balance judicial-selection rule before SCOTUS

Delaware governor’s attorney ‘eager to defend’ Delaware’s party-balance judicial-selection rule before SCOTUS

On Monday, attorneys representing Delaware Gov. John Carney are set to argue to the U.S. Supreme Court that the state’s longstanding requirement of politically balanced courts is constitutional.

Carney, who is represented by attorneys from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has asked the Supreme Court to reverse decisions made by the district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third…

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Justice for Jasmine: 10 years after teen's murder, family fights to keep memory alive

Justice for Jasmine: 10 years after teen's murder, family fights to keep memory alive

Read the original story here. This is the third in a three-part series recounting the 2009 murder of 16-year-old Jasmine Guevara.

Jasmine Guevara loved life so much, she compared it to a carnival.

In 2009, Guevara was a busy, social teenager: she ran track and cross country, played hockey and was in the school marching band; she worked multiple jobs so she could pay for everything from…

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Murder indictment was a ‘no-brainer’ in Guevara case

Murder indictment was a ‘no-brainer’ in Guevara case

Read the original story here. This is the second in a three-part series recounting the 2009 murder of 16-year-old Jasmine Guevara.

Though Alexander Salgado and Maricela Diaz made confessions to police at virtually the same time and were arrested for 16-year-old Jasmine Guevara’s murder on the same day, their cases took different paths from that point forward.

The two were indicted by a…

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Guevara killers arrested within 48 hours of 2009 murder

Guevara killers arrested within 48 hours of 2009 murder

Read the original story here. This is the first in a three-part series recounting the 2009 murder of 16-year-old Jasmine Guevara.

On the night of Nov. 10, 2009, a fire was reported in a rural area of western Hanson County.

Almost exactly 48 hours later, two people were in jail, having confessed to stabbing 16-year-old Jasmine Guevara and putting her in the trunk of her car before setting it…

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SD women's prison event turns adversity to empowerment

SD women's prison event turns adversity to empowerment

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PIERRE — Among the usual crowd of khaki and red outfits at the South Dakota Women’s Prison, hints of purple were seen on staff and incarcerated women alike on Thursday.

In the middle of National Domestic Violence Month, the small purple ribbons many wore were in honor of the first domestic and sexual violence-focused event held at the prison. Known as the…

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Mitchell manufacturing sees increase in female leadership

Mitchell manufacturing sees increase in female leadership

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Women currently make up less than a third of the national workforce in the historically male-dominated manufacturing industry, and that proportion is slightly lower in South Dakota.

But in Mitchell, several women now hold top leadership positions at local plants, and they said they’ve seen an increase in the number of women gaining interest and applying for…

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Evidence uncovered on iPhone in Long murder case

Evidence uncovered on iPhone in Long murder case

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Texts have been recovered from the phone of the woman accused of attempted first-degree murder and reckless burning in 2015.

Using computer software purchased by the state, messages sent and received by Dawn Long, 40, were recently uncovered from Long’s iPhone.

Dan Meinke of Forensic Computer Resources, who took Long’s phone to Rapid City so the software could be…

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Humans lie down stationary and unconscious for hours every night experiencing weird hallucinations and we all just seem to accept it

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The Twitter story

Here it is, finally: the finished Twitter story.

In November 2015, when Twitter polls were fairly new, I decided to use that feature to write a story. I tweeted options, and my followers (and anyone else who wanted to participate) voted for the direction they wanted the story’s plot to take. More than two years, thousands of votes and a surprising amount of audience input later, I finished the following story. *whale noises*’ autobiography Part…

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