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• PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe says it has received notice that the federal government will provide temporary and permanent trailers for families recently displaced from their homes because of storm damage.
• Tribal spokeswoman Donna Salomon says in a news release that the Bureau of Indian Affairs notified tribal officials that 39 short-term FEMA trailers and six to eight permanent trailers will be made available soon. The federal government is also re

programming funds to cover the costs of transporting and setting up the trailers.
• The tribe says nearly 20 mobile homes were damaged or destroyed when a storm tore through the reservation community of Oglala more than a week ago.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has reinstated a vehicular homicide conviction for a South Dakota man.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley announced Monday that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the conviction for Oakley Engesser.
• Engesser of Belle Fourche (bell-FOOSH') had been serving a 25-year sentence in prison for a July 2000 traffic crash on Interstate 90 that killed one person and injured two others. But a district court judge in October concluded that Engesser's attorney was ineffective, and Engesser was released from prison.
• The state has appealed the ruling and sought to keep Engesser in prison.
• Jackley says the decision by the federal appeals court "gives important recognition to the deference that is owed to jury verdicts and state court decisions."
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• TEA, S.D. (AP) -- Water started flowing through the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System on Monday after more than two decades of planning and construction.
• A treatment plant near Vermillion began producing water for distribution to 11 of the 20 member cities and rural water systems, including Sioux Falls.
• The regional water system was incorporated in January 1990 with the goal of supplying 300,000 people in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa with water from the Missouri River.

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