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Groton Daily Independent
Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 069 ~ 17 of 36
Wentworth woman killed in Lake County crash identi ed
MADISON, S.D. (AP) — Authorities have identi ed a Wentworth woman who died in a two-vehicle crash over the weekend in Lake County.
The Highway Patrol says 70-year-old Barbara May was driving a sport utility vehicle that was rear-ended at an intersection on state Highway 34 about 7 miles east of Madison.
May was declared dead at the scene shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday. The driver of the SUV that struck her vehicle suffered minor injuries. Charges are pending against the 75-year-old Madison woman.
Charges led against jail inmate accused of assault, escape
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Four felony charges have been led in Charles Mix County against an inmate who authorities say assaulted a guard before escaping the county jail and ending up in a standoff with law enforcement in Vermillion.
Nineteen-year-old Jubal Grant is charged with escape, simple assault on a correctional of cer, burglary and grand theft.
The Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan reports that Grant appeared in court Tuesday but did not enter pleas to the charges.
Authorities say Grant stole a car after escaping on Aug. 30. He and the car were found the next day at a Vermillion residence, and he was taken into custody after a standoff that lasted about seven hours.
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Information from: Yankton Press and Dakotan, http://www.yankton.net/
Sioux Falls casino robbed at gunpoint; no injuries reported
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police are looking for a man who robbed a casino at gunpoint.
Authorities say the man entered the Crown Casino about 1 a.m. Wednesday armed with a handgun and demanded cash. He ed with an undisclosed amount of money.
No injuries were reported.
New Myanmar res in empty Rohingya village raise questions
BANGKOK (AP) — Journalists saw new res burning Thursday in a Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and pages ripped from Islamic texts that were left on the ground. That intensi es doubts about government claims that members of the persecuted minority have been destroy- ing their own homes.
About two dozen journalists saw the res in Gawdu Zara village in northern Rakhine state on a govern- ment-controlled trip. Some 164,000 Rohingya from the area have ed across the border in Bangladesh in less than two weeks since Aug. 25, when Rohingya insurgents attacked police outposts in Gawdu Zara and several others, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.
The military has said nearly 400 people, most they described as insurgents, had died in clashes and that troops were conducting “clearance operations.” It blames insurgents for setting the villages on re, without offering proof.
The Rohingya who have ed Myanmar, however, all described large-scale violence perpetrated by Myan- mar troops and Buddhist mobs — setting re to their homes, spraying bullets indiscriminately, stabbing civilians and ordering them to abandon their homes or be killed.
On the Myanmar side of the border, reporters saw no Rohingya in any of the ve destroyed villages they were allowed to tour Thursday, making it unlikely they could have been responsible for the res.
An ethnic Rakhine villager who emerged from the smoke said police and Rakhine Buddhists had set the res. The villager ran off before he could be asked anything else.
No police were seen in the village beyond those who were accompanying the journalists. But about 10 Rakhine men with machetes were seen there. They looked nervous; the only one who spoke said he had