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gram to Stimulate Competitive Research.
• Grants are going to the Brookings, Canton, Harding County, Rapid City, Sioux Falls and Sisseton school districts. Also receiving grants are Lake Area Multi District and the East Dakota Education Cooperative.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has selected South Dakota to host a public health fellow focused on assisting individuals and neighborhoods struggling to maintain their property.
• The city of Sioux Falls says in a news release that the CDC is placing Vanessa Sweeney in the two-year position. Sweeney will be working with the Sioux Falls' Health Department and Planning and Building Services. Her specialty is mental illness and substance abuse within indigent populations
• This is the first time South Dakota has been selected to host a CDC public health prevention specialist fellow. Sweeney will be introduced to the City Council on Tuesday.
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• HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court won't consider a Colorado woman's challenge of a $3.4 billion settlement between the federal government and Native American land trust beneficiaries.
• The settlement was reached in 2009 following years of litigation in which Montana resident Elouise Cobell, who is now deceased, argued government officials mismanaged billions of dollars in land royalties held in trust for Native Americans.
• Court records show Kimberly Craven's petition asking the Supreme Court to review the settlement was denied Oct. 29. She had argued the settlement enriched the attorneys and the named plaintiffs led by Cobell.
• The named plaintiffs' attorneys said Wednesday that three other people have agreed to dismiss their appeals in exchange for having their attorneys' fees and expenses paid, so settlement funds are closer to getting distributed.
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