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• The juvenile court later granted a request from the state Department of Economic Security to sever the parental rights of the mother, who is Navajo, and the unknown father.
• The Navajo Nation was notified in September 2010 that the boy's case could be guided by the Indian Child Welfare Act. However, the tribe did not notify the court of a suitable placement until nine months later, citing heavy caseloads of tribal social workers and an inability to find the mother.
• The sister of the boy's maternal grandmother said she would rather have him placed with her, but she also would expose him to Navajo culture if he remained

with his current family. He is now 2.
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• NTSB completes on-site investigation of crash
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The National Transportation Safety Board has finishes its on-site investigation into the crash of a single-engine experimental airplane at the Pierre airport that left one person dead.
• Dan Baker with NTSB tells KGFX and KCCR that investigators will return to Denver and begin piecing together the crash. The plane crashed on takeoff Tuesday morning. The Federal Aviation Administration identified it as an SQ2000, a plane that can be built from a kit. Sixty-nine-year-old Paul Lee, who owned the plane, was killed.
• Baker says the NTSB will issue a preliminary report within five days. The complete investigation will take six to nine months.
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