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member of the second class would be paid $800 plus a share of the balance of the settlement funds as calculated by a formula based on the activity in their trust accounts.
• U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan last week authorized the law firm Kilpatrick Townsend to issue the first round of $1,000 checks to about 350,000 beneficiaries.
• Besides the cash buyouts and land buybacks, an education scholarship of up to $60 million for young Indians also will be established under the settlement. Interior Solicitor Hilary Tompkins said a portion of each land transaction will go to the scholarship fund.
• Congress approved the Cobell settlement in December 2010 and Hogan approved it after a June 2011 hearing. Hogan said that while the settlement may not be as large as some wished, the deal ended the legal deadlock and provided some certainty for the beneficiaries.
• Cobell died last year of cancer.
• Three consultations to solicit tribal comments on the buyback program's initial framework will be held in the coming months: Jan. 31 in Minneapolis; Feb. 6 in Rapid City, S.D.; and Feb. 14 in Seattle.
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2 fatal crashes along slick I-29 in Union County
• ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Highway Patrol says freezing drizzle along Interstate 29 in Union County led to two fatal crashes Tuesday morning.
• Troopers say 27-year-old Angela Beth Snoozy, of Emery, was killed around 7 a.m. after her car lost control one mile south of Elk Point, crossed the median and struck a garbage truck. A third vehicle then struck the engine assembly of Snoozy's car, which had been dislodged in the crash with the truck, but no one was injured in that vehicle.
• In a separate crash 40 minutes later 12 miles south of Beresford, 38-year-old Tonya Marie Anderson, of Akron, Iowa, was killed after her pickup truck lost control, skidded into the median and rolled. The patrol says Anderson was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the truck.
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Primary Care Task Force makes recommendations
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A task force created to train more primary health care providers for rural areas of South Dakota says health professions' education programs should work more closely together and that training opportunities in rural areas (Continued on page 23)
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