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Diane Peterson Diane Peterson, age 71, of Yank-

ton, SD died Friday, July 27, 2012 atAvera Sacred Heart Hospital, Yank-ton, SD. Funeral Services will be 10a.m., Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at Pleas-ant Valley Lutheran Church, Vermil-lion, SD with Rev. Anna M. Peckofficiating. Burial will be in PleasantValley Cemetery, Vermillion, SD. Visi-tations will begin at 5 p.m., Monday,July 30, 2012 at the Opsahl-KostelFuneral Home & Crematory, Yank-ton, with a Scripture service at 7PM. Visitations will resume one hourprior to the service at the church.

Arlene GrahamArlene H. Graham, age 88 of Ran-

dolph, Neb., died Wednesday, July25, 2012 at Colonial Manor of Ran-dolph. Funeral services will be heldat the United Methodist Church inRandolph, Neb. on Saturday, July 28at 1:30 p.m.

Edna SmithFuneral services for Edna M.

Smith, age 94 of Creighton, Ne-braska, will be 1 p.m. Monday, July30, 2012, at St. Ludger CatholicChurch in Creighton. ReverendGarry Welsh will serve as Celebrant.

Visitation will be one hour priorto services at the church.

Brockhaus Funeral Home ofCreighton is in charge ofarrangements.

Edna died Wednesday, July 25,2012, at Avera Creighton Hospital inCreighton, Nebraska.

Gary TewsFuneral services for Gary D.

Tews, age 72 of Fremont, Nebraska,formerly of Niobrara, will be 10:30a.m. Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at MoserMemorial Chapel in Fremont. Rev-erend Harold Schmidt of PohaccoLutheran Church will officiate. Bur-ial with Military Honors will be 11:00a.m. Wednesday, August 1, 2012, at

L’Eau Qui Court Cemetery in Nio-brara, Nebraska.

Visitation with the family receiv-ing friends will be Friday, from 5 to 8p.m., at Moser Memorial Chapel inFremont.

Gary died Thursday, July 26,2012 at his home at Woodcliff.

Adolph Krcil Adolph Krcil, age 80, of Yankton,

died Friday, July 27, 2012 at hisdaughter’s residence in Kearney, NE.Funeral services are pending withthe Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home &Crematory, Yankton, SD.

Carol RysavyCarol Rysavy, age 69, died unex-

pectedly at her home in Wagner onFriday July 27, 2012. Funeral Masswill be 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 31,2012 at St John Catholic Church inWagner. Burial is in St John CatholicCemetery, rural Wagner. Visitation isfrom 2 to 5 p.m. Monday, at theCrosby-Jaeger Funeral Home in Wag-ner. Rosary/Wake services are 7:30p.m., Monday at the church.

Karen “Carrie” BoulterKaren “Carrie” Boulter passed

away January 1, 2012. A second me-morial service will be held at ChristThe King Lutheran Church, 305 W.26th Street Yankton, SD on Saturday,July 28 at 10 a.m., followed by lunchat the VFW Hall Post 791, 209 CedarSt., Yankton. Interment will follow atHillcrest Cemetary in Irene. Friendsand family are welcome to attend allevents. In lieu of flowers, donationscan be sent to the VFW Women’sAuxiliary Post 791 and Christ TheKing Lutheran Church.

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Lorraine TrampLorraine E. (Schroeder)

Tramp, age 85, of Yankton, andformerly of rural Crofton, NEpassed away Thursday evening,July 26, 2012 at the Avera SisterJames Care Center, Yankton, sur-rounded by her family. Mass ofChristian Burial will be 10:30 a.m.,Monday, July 30, 2012 at St. Boni-face Catholic Church, Menomi-nee, NE with Rev. David Fultonofficiating. Burial will be in theparish cemetery. Visitations willbegin at 5 p.m., Sunday, July 29,2012 at St. Boniface CatholicChurch, Menominee, Neb. with aWake service at 7 p.m. Visitationswill resume one hour prior to theservice at the church. The Op-sahl-Kostel Funeral Home & Cre-matory, Yankton, SD, is assistingwith the details. Pallbearers willbe Reynold Tramp, Merle Tramp,Bill Tramp, Rodney Tramp, BertTramp, and Chris Tramp. Hon-orary pallbearers will be VeronaBedrous, Mary Jane Heine,Lavonne Bierle, Janice Hesse,Joan Kollars, Kay Tweedy, andLeanne Wendte.

Lorraine was born Oct. 26,1926 to William and Josephine

(Schmitt)Schroeder at thefarm home nearCrofton, NE. Sheattended elemen-tary school at Dis-trict 11 and St.Boniface CatholicSchool in Menomi-nee, NE. In 1944,she graduated

from Mount Marty Academy inYankton, SD.

Lorraine worked at Kunkel’sLaw Office and Gurney's in Yank-ton, SD.

On June 4, 1947, she marriedVernon E. Tramp at St. BonifaceCatholic Church in Menominee,NE. They spent their entire lifefarming the land they lovednortheast of Crofton, NE. She wasa lifetime member of St. BonifaceChurch in Menominee. Her hob-bies included playing piano andreading. They were blessed with 8daughters and 5 sons.

She is survived by twelve chil-dren and their spouses, VeronaBedrous of Moreno Valley, CA,Mary Jane Heine of Vermillion, SD,Reynold (Susan) of Crofton, NE,Lavonne (Jack) Bierle, Meridan,ID, Merle (Sue) of Crofton, NE, Jan

(Bill) Hesse of Yankton, SD, Joan(Sid) Kollars of Norfolk, NE, Bill(Dawn Ann) of Miles City, MT,Rodney (Dee Dee) of Crofton, NE,Kay (Scott) Tweedy of CastleRock, CO, Leanne (Jody) Wendteof Crofton, NE and Bert (Pam) ofCrofton, NE; 39 grandchildren, 27great-grandchildren; Two broth-ers - Emil Schroeder of GreatFalls, MT and William Schroederof Sioux Falls, SD and Three sis-ters - Cleopha Schurman ofCrofton, NE, Lee Walz of Sacra-mento, CA, and Mary Ann Dankertof Omaha, NE.

She was preceded in death byher husband, Vernon; her parents,William and Josephine; daughter,Lori Schieffer; sons-in-law, LarryMuxfelt and Paul Heine; siblings,Michael and Roman Schroeder;great-grandson, Michael Ruzicka.

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Former R.C. Mayor Pleads Guilty To ChargesRAPID CITY (AP) — A former Rapid City mayor has pleaded guilty

to charges stemming from a traffic stop.KOTA reports that 65-year-old Jim Shaw pleaded guilty Friday to

speeding and failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. The chargesstemmed from an early June traffic stop. The two charges aremisdemeanors.

In exchange for pleading guilty to the two charges, a third charge ofobstructing a police officer has been dropped.

Shaw must pay fines totaling $145 and write a letter of admission tothe court by Aug. 1.

Shaw was mayor of Rapid City for a total of eight years between1997 and 2007.

SUV Crashes Into Bedroom, Driver ChargedOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man police say crashed his SUV through a

woman’s bedroom, knocking her and her bed into the back yard, is injail.

KETV television reports 21-year-old Paul Mosher refused to take abreath test. He is charged by Omaha police with suspicion of drivingunder the influence and collision with a fixed object.

Investigators say Mosher was driving fast at 3:15 a.m. Friday whenhis sport-utility vehicle hit six cars parked on a street, struck a curb,and went airborne into the bedroom of a home.

A woman and the mattress she was sleeping on were pushed intothe back yard. The woman is being treated for broken bones but her fa-ther says she will recover.

The case is not yet listed in online court records.

SD Taxpayers’ Bill For Abortion Law: $380KSIOUX FALLS (AP) — A federal appeals court victory for a South

Dakota anti-abortion law cost state taxpayers almost $380,000, Attor-ney General Marty Jackley’s office said.

The sum, which does not include private donations made to sup-port the law’s legal defense, is much less than some of the law’s oppo-nents predicted when the South Dakota Legislature approved theso-called “informed consent” law seven years ago.

The law requires a doctor to tell a woman who is seeking an abor-tion that she could be putting herself at greater risk for suicide.

The cost includes travel expenses, fees paid to expert witnessesand advice from outside law firm as well as the time of state deputy at-torneys general who worked on the case.

Sen. Corey Brown, R-Gettysburg, the chairman of the South DakotaLegislature’s joint appropriations committee, said the figure was notsurprising, especially for a case that dragged on for seven years.

The appeals court’s ruling left all major portions of the law in-tact after Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, Nebraska and theDakotas challenged it in federal court.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — One ofthree north-central Nebraska wild-fires, which have blackened anarea of the size of Omaha, hasgrown, but crews remain on trackto have all the fires completelycontained by the end of the week-end, officials said Friday.

The total burned area expandedby about four square miles lateThursday and overnight becauseflames jumped a fire line on thesouthern edge of one of the fires,the Wentworth fire, NebraskaEmergency Management Agencyspokesman Mike Wight said.

The fires burned more than 117square miles of land along the sce-nic Niobrara River by Friday, Wightsaid.

Wight said firefighters have thethree fires 70 percent containedoverall, with 97 percent contain-ment of the Fairfield Creek fire,which is the biggest. Complete con-tainment still was expected by Sun-day, he said.

Cooler conditions and higherhumidity have helped firefightersin their efforts since Wednesday,and Friday morning temperaturesin the upper 60s prevented theflames from growing. Friday morn-ing also saw a weather occurrenceknown as a temperature inversionthat aided firefighters’ efforts, saidLinda Hecker, a spokeswoman withthe emergency response team.

“It’s literally like a lid keepingcooler air over the area and hold-ing the fire down,” Hecker said.“The fire is not going to be reallyactive today under those condi-tions, so firefighters can be veryaggressive in constructing fire linesand trying to secure some of thoselines.”

That lid was expected to lift late

Friday, however, and winds wereexpected to shift to the northwest.That could push flames in theWentworth fire in a new directionand cause it to grow, Hecker said.Firefighters were scrambling to digtrenches around that fire Fridaymorning in an effort to keep thatfrom happening, she said.

The fires have destroyed atleast 10 structures, some of themhomes, with most of the damagehappening last weekend near thesmall town of Norden.

Wight said there were no re-ports Friday of additional struc-tures being burned and no newinjuries reported. Three firefight-ers were injured in the first daysof the fire.

More than 400 firefighters andsupport personnel remain in thearea battling the fires sparked bylightning a week ago. Five helicop-ters also are dumping water onthe flames.

Firefighters also are containinganother wildfire in the northwestcorner of Nebraska. The AshCreek Fire near Chadron hasburned a little more than threesquare miles, Cyd Janssen withthe U.S. Forest Service said Friday.

The fire started with lightningSaturday and burned mostly onfederal recreation area land southof U.S. Highway 20 betweenChadron and Crawford.

Another fire was burning about10 miles south of Crawford inDawes County, blackening lessthan a square mile of private land.Crawford Fire Chief Brian Prosserestimated late Thursday that theSteineke fire was about 60 percentcontained.

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — A man ac-cused of fatally injuring a motorcy-clist while he was speeding andtexting is facing manslaughtercharges in a case that could fuel ef-forts to ban texting while driving inSouth Dakota’s largest city.

Authorities say 21-year-oldBrent O’Neal was driving 60 mph ina 30 mph zone and was texting onhis cellphone when he caused achain of accidents in central SiouxFalls on Wednesday.

O’Neal’s car hit three vehiclesand Philip Sorensen’s motorcyclebefore crashing into a light pole.The 33-year-old Sorensen died laterat a Sioux Falls hospital.

The death prompted a heart-rending outpouring Thursday asdozens of people gathered at thesite of the accident for a candlelightobservance. Friends tearfully de-scribed Sorensen as a fun-lovingman who sought to make peoplelaugh.

“He got robbed,” friend NathanAlexander told the Argus Leader.“All of you should have known him.He brought a lot of people to-gether.”

The death has underscored re-cent talk of banning texting whiledriving in Sioux Falls. Earlier thismonth, the city’s Public ServicesCommittee endorsed a proposed

distracted driving ordinance thatwould ban texting, emailing, tweet-ing and Facebook use while behindthe wheel.

Leaders in other South Dakotacities have indicated they might fol-low Sioux Falls’ lead if the ban isadopted.

The South Dakota Legislaturehas rejected statewide bans in thelast two years, saying that existingreckless driving laws make addi-tional laws redundant. Some law-makers have also said that it’sunrealistic to enforce a statewideban in such a vast state with hun-dreds of miles of rural driving.

All drivers are prohibited fromtexting while driving in 39 statesand Washington D.C., and five otherstates have bans in place for novicedrivers, according to the GovernorsHighway Safety Association, a traf-fic safety advocacy group.

Police said Friday that O’Nealfaces charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter. He was ini-tially charged with felony hit andrun and other offenses.

The most serious manslaughtercharge carries a potential life im-prisonment sentence.

O’Neal has a previous drunkendriving conviction, six speedingtickets and four tickets for carelessdriving, authorities said.

Neb. Fires Nearly Contained

Texting S.D. Driver ChargedWith Manslaughter

BY MARGERY A. BECKAssociated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — The NebraskaSupreme Court on Friday upheldthe conviction and sentence of anOmaha man serving up to 60 yearsin prison for a fatal parking lotshooting.

Rufus Freemont, 26, was con-victed early last year on second-de-gree murder and weapons chargesin the June 2010 shooting death of19-year-old Andrew Galligo.Freemont was sentenced in Marchto 55 to 60 years in prison for themurder conviction, 20 years forusing a weapon and up to 10 yearsfor being a felon in possession of agun. All the sentences are to beserved at the same time.

According to witness testimonyand police accounts, Freemont wasin the back seat of a car when a

friend who was driving spotted Gal-ligo wearing the red and black col-ors of a gang to which shebelonged. The woman pulled intothe parking lot, got out of the carand began arguing loudly with Gal-ligo.

A few minutes into the argu-ment, someone in the back seat ofthe car stuck a gun out of the car’swindow and shot Galligo severaltimes, witnesses said. Police saidthe shooter was Freemont.

Freemont argued in his appealthat a Douglas County DistrictCourt wrongly allowed evidence athis trial that he had a gun in theweek before the shooting and thathe jumped out of a second-storywindow to escape police trying toarrest him. He also said the lowercourt made a mistake by allowingautopsy photos into evidence andthat his trial lawyer was ineffective.

Neb. Court Upholds Conviction