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dian children from their homes and then puts them in foster care with non-Indian families.
• The defendants said the tribes have failed to state a claim and lack standing to bring the suit. They asked that the federal lawsuit be tossed.
• Steven Pevar, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing the tribes, said he expected the defendants to file a motion to dismiss and the tribes will be responding within the time required.
• Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 because of the once high number of Indian children being removed from their homes by public and private agencies.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The Rapid City Police Department and Pennington County Sheriff's Office are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a drainage ditch.
• Employees at a car dealership discovered the body late Monday afternoon. Au

thorities say it appears that the man had been dead for several days.
• They're still working to identify the man and determine the cause of death. An autopsy is planned.
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• GREGORY, S.D. (AP) -- Patrons of a financially troubled cooperative grain elevator in the southeastern South Dakota city of Gregory have decided to sell the facility to an East Coast-based company to keep it in business.
• Gregory Farmers Elevator's patrons voted 63-4 on Monday to sell the facility to Interstate Commodities Inc., of Troy, N.Y., for $555,000, The Daily Republic newspaper reported (http://bit.ly/10j0iDp ).
• "It gives a positive outlook for Gregory to give the elevator working capital," board member Jessy Diggins said. "(Interstate Commodities) has the funds to expand and make it better."
• A lack of working capital was one of the reasons cited by state regulators last month when they revoked the elevator's grain buyer and warehouse licenses.
• "Working capital was gone and we saw no hope of recovering that money," Jim Mehlhaff, director of the Public Utilities Commission's grain and warehouse division,

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