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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) The state won't appeal a judge's decision that allows South Dakota's new smoking ban law to be referred to a public vote in the 2010 election. A judge ruled last week that opponents had collected enough signatures to force a public vote.

The law would ban smoking in bars and casinos.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Bogus burglar and robbery alarms are becoming such a nuisance for the Sioux Falls Police Department that city officials are considering charging a fee to cover the cost of responding to repeated unfounded reports. Police say most of the 1,900 burglar and hold-up distress alarms they responded to this year were false.

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) A woman accused of robbing a Mobridge bank will be charged in federal court. Authorities say Sonja Mae Brown was captured when she tried to leave the Mobridge Dacotah Bank with an undisclosed amount of money.

PRESHO, S.D. (AP) The South Dakota Highway Patrol says a Kennebec teen was the driver of a pickup involved in a fatal crash Nov. 13 on old Highway 16 west of Presho. Sixteen-year-old Maci M.

Busack and 19-year-old Alexis Bowsher of Minot, N.D., were killed in the rollover. Initially, investigators had been unable to determine which of the occupants was driving at the time of the accident.

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