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putting together a state budget is complicated by uncertainty over how much money the federal government will give the state. Congress and President Barack Obama face a Dec. 31 deadline to craft a deficit-reduction plan. If they fail, taxes will rise and automatic cuts to government programs will kick in.
• Daugaard said his budget assumes that the president and Congress will not allow the automatic spending cuts to occur on Dec. 31.
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Prescribed burn set at Mount Rushmore Memorial
• KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) -- A prescribed burn will take place Tuesday at Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
• The park says the burn is needed to reduce accumulated slash piles.
• The burn will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will cover approximately 30 acres.
• Visitors to the park may see drifting smoke and haze throughout the week because of the burn.
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Funerals set for victims of North Dakota slayings
JAMES MacPHERSON,Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Hundreds of mourners filled a tiny northwest North Dakota church for the funeral of a 64-year-old woman shot to death with three of her grandchildren last week in their New Town home.
• Martha Johnson was remembered Monday as a civic-minded, churchgoing woman who loved life and her family, said the Rev. Grant Patterson, the family's pastor.
• "A lot of tears were shed here today," said Patterson, who presided over the funeral.
• Johnson and her grandchildren -- 13-year-old Benjamin Schuster, 10-year-old Julia Schuster and 6-year-old Luke Schuster -- were found fatally shot in their home on the Fort Berthold Reservation on Nov. 18.
• The FBI told The Associated Press that a New Town man who killed himself in Parshall later in the day, Kalcie Eagle, 21, is considered a person of interest in the case. The FBI is handling the investigation because it has jurisdiction on reservations.
• Neither Johnson nor her grandchildren were tribal members, authorities said. Eagle was a member of the Three Affilated Tribes.
• FBI spokesman Greg Boosalis declined to discuss details of the case again Mon (Continued on page 24)
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