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An Idaho inmate who slipped custody after the correctional officers guarding him were attacked at a hospital has pleaded guilty to escape.

Alaska state game officials say the first apparent case of a rabid moose in North America has been confirmed in western Alaska. The moose was acting aggressively and drooling near the community of Teller on June 2. The animal has been killed. Its carcass has been burned to prevent further spread to scavengers. Testing has revealed the moose had the Arctic fox rabies variant. The moose had a wound from a fox bite. The game department plans to test all dead wild mammals from parts of the state where rabies is generally present at a certain level among foxes.

WINDOM, Minn. (AP) — An Iowa pork producer says it it will not keep more than 1,000 employees at a bankrupt Minnesota plant if a judge approves its winning bid to purchase the business. Premium Iowa Pork, based in Hospers, Iowa, bid $13 million to buy the slaughterhouse in Windom, which is the largest employer in the southwestern Minnesota town.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Republican Gov. Kristi Noem opened a hotline for complaints about South Dakota colleges and is calling on the state's higher education governing board to ban drag shows, she announced Friday.

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a house explosion that killed a young girl and her grandparents and left two young children hospitalized with burns.