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Santa Fe train as it crossed the train bridge. She says the train wasn't moving very fast, and tried to stop right away.
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Tribal veteran's cemetery to be built in S. Dakota
• PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved the creation of a new tribal veteran's cemetery on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with a multimillion grant, the Oglala Sioux Tribe has announced.
• The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding a $6.5 million grant for the cemetery, which will be located on 63 acres of land about 8 miles east of Kyle, the tribe announced in a news release over the weekend. The grant money will go toward establishing a cemetery entrance, roads, administration building, memorial walkway and burial areas. The construction will include 260 pre-placed crypts and 40 gravesites.
• "As a veteran myself, I am greatly pleased with the Tribe on the positive outcome of this project and it is finally a reality," Oglala Sioux President John Yellow Bird Steele said. "I know many of my fellow veterans will be happy."
• Veterans, their spouses and children will be allowed to be buried at the cemetery.
• The tribe will bless the land during a ceremony on Wednesday. A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 4.
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AP News in Brief
AP Interview: Iran's Ahmadinejad pushes new world order, end to American 'bullying'
• NEW YORK (AP) -- After an hour of fielding questions about Syria, sanctions and nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had enough. Now, he said, it was his turn to choose the topic -- his "new order" which will inevitably replace the current era of what he called U.S. bullying.
• Continuing his hectic pace of media appearances and diplomatic meetings, Ahmadinejad presented an air of boredom when it came to the hot topic on everyone's mind -- Iran's nuclear program and the possibility of impending war. Whether it was feigned or sincere, he said he would much rather be talking about his vision of what the next world order might be.
• Conveniently, it would be an order in which the U.S. and the traditional powers (Continued on page 27)
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