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Radar waves behave much the same way. f-- I bery and false identification. Nelson said Brunner probably would have been eligible for parole in about two years. Under the agreement with prosecutors, Brunner must give testimony against Anderson under oath and be cross-examined before he is released from prison. He also must keep in contact with law enforcement and needs to appear and testify at Anderson's trial or all other hearings.

Violating the agreements could send him back to prison. On Nov. 3, 1996, he and another man got into a dispute over money at the Stop Light Lounge, 2501 E. 10th Nelson said. Brunner was convicted of taking $50 and giving police a false name when they tried to arrest him.

The informant has past convictions for forgery and larceny in Battle Creek, Mich. Brunner was sentenced to the penitentiary in April and became a cellmate to Anderson. A court motion asking for Brunner's early release stated that Brunner told prison officials that Anderson had been talking to him Anderson See 3A By JENNIFER GERRIETTS Argus Leader Staff The prisoner who gave authorities the information they needed to charge Robert LeRoy Anderson with murder was granted his freedom conditionally Wednesday if he testifies against his former cellmate. Jeremy Brunner, 21, had his five-year prison sentence for a November 1996 robbery reduced to two years of supervised parole in a hearing before Circuit Judge Glen Severson. He will be held in prison until after his testimony at Anderson's preliminary hearing today and Friday in Minnehaha County Circuit Court on murder charges.

In August, Brunner told officials that Anderson shared details of murdering and raping Larisa Dumansky and Piper Streyle. Authorities charged Anderson with murder, rape and kidnapping, using the information from Brunner. Dumansky, 29, of Sioux Falls has been missing since Aug. 27, 1994, when she did not return home after working the night shift a John Morrell Co. Anderson was convicted in May of the July 28, 1996, kidnapping of Streyle from her rural Canis- Stents 6t "opplenadar Jeremy Robert Brunner Anderson tota home.

Both women are presumed dead; neither body has been found. State's Attorney Dave Nelson said he could not comment on whether he was concerned about Brunner's safety or whether Brunner should be released before Anderson's trial. A gag order imposed by Circuit Judge Lee Anderson forbids officials from commenting on the case. Nelson said that such an agreement with a prisoner is extremely rare in his experience as a prosecutor. He said this is the first case in which he remembers arguing for someone's early release in exchange for criminal information.

"All I can say is that he deserves to be out," Nelson said. Brunner was serving a five-year sentence for rob pjpr Hoar does Doppler radar differ from conventional radar? Conventional: Offers a two-dimensional look at a storm and requires a senes of radar images to show a storm's movement Is Doppler foolproof? Earfi Jer and more warms "o'ent weather. Quicker wamino. No. Doppler may miss tornadoes if they are too far away or if they form below the radar's signal.

"PsaveftW Lflp Weather Service; Federal '-n Avtakon AOminetraton I VUI 1 By BOB KEYES Argus Leader Staff The day began like few others in South Dakota clear skies and calm conditions. But by early afternoon on Sept. 8, tornadoes were ripping through the area. At KELO-TV, when general manager Mark Anton-itis noticed the ominous clouds rolling through outside his office window, he bolted from a meeting and huddled with news director Mark Millage. Within minutes, chief forecaster Jay Trobec was on the air telling viewers near Turkey Ridge to take cover.

And with that broadcast, KELO-TV debuted its much-hyped Live Doppler 2000 dual-radar weather tracking system. Life hasn't been the same around KELO-TV ever since. If it seems that Live Doppler 2000 has taken over the evening news since then, that's because it has. KELO-TV has reworked its logo, altered its look and changed the music it uses to introduce newscasts, all at least in part because of Live Doppler 2000 a radar system that looks good on TV but that critics call rinky-dink compared to what the National Weather Service uses. The critics are right but only to a point.

While KELO's new system can instantly pinpoint the location of a storm on TV and tell people when it will cross their path, the National Weather Service radar is more powerful. And KELO still relies on data from the National Gateway saying little about job-cutting plan Linda SmMVArgus Leader. KHT Graphics Uoyd B. CunninghamArgus Leader photo ployees. The written statement was issued amid rumors that Gateway might lay off as many as 1,000 workers.

The company employs about 5,000 people at its main manufacturing plant in North Sioux City. Sioux Falls is what the company calls a remanufac-turing plant, meaning personal computers are fixed and serviced here. Sioux Falls also has a telephone service center. Gateway See 3A been discontinued. Others fear they could lose work.

Local executives deferred comment to company headquarters in North Sioux City, which has issued a brief, written statement. According to the statement, about 300 Gateway employees are being given the choice of reassignment or termination with severance pay. The statement also says the company will continue to hire in some areas and expects to finish the year with its current level of em By ROB SWENSON Argus Leader Staff Gateway 2000 executives would not say Wednesday how many Sioux Falls employees are losing jobs in a cost-saving move. The computer-making giant, based in North Sioux City, said it is reassigning or firing about 300 workers throughout the company, which employs more than 12,000 people worldwide. Gateway employs about 1,400 people in Sioux Falls.

Some workers have been notified that their jobs have market will have one," Heitkamp said. Antonitis, KELO's general manager, doesn't think that day will come anytime soon. He won't say how much, only that KELO's parent company, Young Broadcasting invested Doppler See 3A Weather Service as well as its NEXRAD radar system for much of its forecast. "Our radar looks at thunderstorms 3-D. Theirs does not.

Ours is a warning radar. Theirs is to help people find out where it's located," says National Weather Service meteorolo gist Todd Heitkamp. "Ours is about three times stronger than what theirs is. But that's not to say theirs is a bad radar. Each serves its own needs.

That's why KELO decided to spend the money they did. Sooner or later, I think every TV station in this Dane with school, skeleton finds new career Congress closes in on 2.3 pay raise As you might imagine, those in the group lost it in laughter. And Colly Brov-eleit, principal at the junior high, still snickers whenever she this is no scale-model plastic rendition. These bones are the real thing. Because they are, simply disposing of them was not an option for St.

Joseph, which plans to merge its junior high with the one at St. Mary Catholic Church and thus no longer needs them. "They are not something you would just set out in the garbage," Broveleit said. You might wonder how a junior high ended up with a Young See 3A A humorous story about a biology class skeleton and detention surfaced several weeks ago as a group of Cathedral High School alumni toured St. Joseph Cathedral Junior High.

The laughter was flowing, the mood right as the tour stepped into the biology classroom. Suddenly, a member of Cathedral's Class of '57 shrieked as she spied the human bones. "Oh my gosh," the woman yelled. "Sister forgot the kid she put on detention." STEVE YOUNG STAFF COLUMNIST retells the story. But, in fact, this skeleton has turned out to be a fairly serious matter for her and other Catholic school officials.

For How they voted How senators from South Dakota and neighboring states voted Wednesday as the Senate backed a pay raise for members of Congress. The measure passed 55-45. South Dakota Tom Daschle (D) Yes; Tim Johnson (D) No. Iowa Charles Grassley (R) No; Tom Harkin (D) Yes. Minnesota Rod Grams (R) No; Paul Wellstone (D) No.

Many child-death cases reopened as theory shifts from SIDS to abuse "4 INDEX 52 pages Ann Landers 2B Bridge column 4C Business 6D By DAVID ESPO Associated Press WASHINGTON Capping weeks of intense maneuvering, Congress approved legislation Wednesday that clears the way for a $3,000 cost-of-living increase in lawmakers' $133,600 pay. The 55-45 Senate vote was the latest in a series of close calls for the bill, which leaders in both houses and both parties nursed toward passage without permitting a direct roll-call vote. Even so, the political anxiety was evident in the Senate, where 19 of the 30 lawmakers seeking re-election next year voted against the bill. "We shouldn't be receiving a (cost-of-living adjustment) during that period of time" when lawmakers are asking others to sacrifice, said Sen. Sam Brownback, who faces the voters in 13 months and was one of a number of senators to speak against the increase.

The 2.3 percent increase would amount to $3,072 for most members of Congress. The same 2.3 percent fx Movies Venture National Obituaries 3D Opinions 8-9A Sioux Empire 2B Comics 7C Crossword 6C Sports Jumble 5D Stocks Life 9 4' Television 3B 1 rl Lottery results 1 Classified ads 4-6B, 4-1 OC Gannett News Service CHICAGO Spurred by new theories about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, police in Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis have re-opened dozens of SIDS cases involving families where more than one child died. Investigators are seeking signs that child abuse, not SIDS, caused the deaths. "There's been a dramatic change in thinking," says Edmund Donoghue, medical examiner in Chicago. "It opens the possibility that children have been For decades doctors believed that SIDS ran in families.

But that is soundly rebuked in the October issue of Pediatrics, due out today. Editor Jerold Lucey apologizes for publishing a landmark study 25 years ago on multiple SIDS deaths. "It's a sordid tale of a flawed hypothesis," he writes. Some fear suspicion will be cast on all SIDS deaths. But Chuck Mihalko of the SIDS Network, a parents group, supports reopening cases of multiple deaths "as an opportunity to educate not just to accuse." 1997 Gannett Inc.

Associated Press would go to federal judges, most of whom are paid the same as rank-and-file lawmakers. At the White House, spokesman Barry Toiv said Clinton believed the pay raise "is a matter for members of Congress to decide." He said, though, that the president had not decided whether to sign the legislation because aides have not finished reviewing its other provisions. limn New York in fall Fog fills the valley south of Snowy Mountain near Indian Lake, N.Y. The mountain has a peak and spectacular cliffs. Foliage has begun to take on its autumn coloring.

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