Deployment set Wednesday for SD Guard soldiers
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A deployment ceremony is scheduled Wednesday for South Dakota National Guard soldiers heading to Afghanistan.
• The ceremony for the four soldiers with the 1978th Contingency Contracting Team is set for 10 a.m. at the Duke Corning Armory in Rapid City. The group is deploying for nine months of duty in Afghanistan after final training at Camp Shelby, Miss.
• The unit's mission will be to coordinate contracting functions at a brigade or combat team level.
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SD hearing postponed on uranium mine water permits
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A state board has postponed a hearing on two water rights permits sought by a proposed uranium mine in southwestern South Dakota.
• Powertech Uranium Corp. plans to pump groundwater into the underground ore deposits near Edgemont to dissolve the uranium. The water would be pumped to the surface, where the uranium would be extracted. The company estimates the mine would produce 1 million pounds of uranium oxide a year for 20 years.
• The state Water Management Board had set a hearing on the water rights permits for Dec. 5. But that hearing has been delayed at the request of some people involved in the case.
• Powertech also has applied for a state mining permit.
• In addition, the company is seeking an operating license from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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FBI: Tribe member charged in reservation death
• LAKE ANDES, S.D. (AP) -- Federal authorities have charged a 23-year-old Yankton Sioux Tribe member in a man's shooting death on the tribe's reservation in southeastern South Dakota.
• The FBI said in an arrest affidavit that Dancing Bull Fischer is being held on a second-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of Tony Fischer Sr., 47. It hap (Continued on page 19)
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