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pay Jackley's office $21,500. • Similarly, M.G. Oil is paying $28,500 for octane testing and educational materials. •
Oglala Sioux Tribe president injured in car wreck
• Oglala Sioux Tribe president injured in car wreck on Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota • RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The newly elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has been injured in a one-vehicle wreck on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota. • Bryan Brewer's administrative assistant says the cause of the Saturday night wreck is so far unknown. Angie Sam says Brewer is still "pretty heavily medicated." • The Rapid City Journal (http://bit.ly/W9FHuD ) reports that Brewer suffered cuts to his head and a broken hip, but Sam tells the newspaper it was a clean break and the president is expected to make a fast recovery. • Brewer is being treated at the Rapid City Regional Hospital. The wreck was near Red Shirt Table. • Sam says the injuries won't sideline Brewer's ability to fulfill his presidential duties for the tribe, though some meetings will need to be rescheduled. •
South Dakota mourns 2 former state officials
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- One was a small-town lawyer-turned-state senator and South Dakota Supreme Court justice. The other launched his career as a state representative after 36 years as a banker. • Frank "Rudy" Henderson and Burdette Solum, both former lawmakers with roots in small South Dakota towns, died separately Friday. • Henderson, 84, passed away at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Sheridan, Wyo. Solum died at a Watertown hospital at age 85. • Gov. Dennis Daugaard has ordered that flags at the State Capitol be lowered to half-staff Wednesday and Thursday to honor the men. • Henderson, the high court justice, was born in Miller, S.D., in 1928. His family remembers him as a big man with a big voice and unflappable conviction. • Those who met him, never forgot him, son John Henderson told the Rapid City Journal on Sunday. • "He was a man of conviction, period. He did what he believed in, no ifs, ands or buts about it," Henderson said.
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