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ness to frame the issues around employment for individuals with disabilities.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The founder of a California film festival dedicated to showcasing Native American talent says former American Indian Movement activist and actor Russell Means will be honored during this year's event.
• Red Nation Film Festival founder Joanelle Romero tells The Associated Press that organizers will screen Means' film "Tiger Eyes" and air a montage of the actor at the Nov. 7-14 festival in Los Angeles.
• Means, a onetime leader of AIM who later appeared in several films, died at his home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on Monday. He was 72.
• Romero says Means was on the festival's board. A lifetime achievement award was created in honor of the actor last year.
• Means got his start in movies with "The Last of the Mohicans."
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A federal judge has denied the motion of a woman with loose family ties to death row inmate Donald Moeller to halt his upcoming execution.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley announced Tuesday that District Court Judge Lawrence Piersol denied the motion filed by Donna Nichols to stay the execution of the 60-year-old Moeller.
• Moeller was convicted for the 1990 kidnapping, rape and murder of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell. He recently asked a federal judge to dismiss his appeals and let him die. His execution is scheduled for next week.
• Nichols, whose mother married Moeller's stepfather, says Moeller wasn't psychologically qualified to dismiss his appeals.
• But Piersol found the motion to be without merit and dismissed it.
• Jackley says a notice of appeal has been filed with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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• SUMNER, Texas (AP) -- In a story Oct. 17, The Associated Press reported that landowners were filing lawsuits to fight TransCanada's land condemnations. Attorneys for some of the landowners say the lawsuits are in the process of being filed

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