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sponsorship of the chamber forums after electing new leaders including Chairman Dave Roetman.
• The first chamber forum is scheduled for Saturday.
• Former party leaders announced their own forums earlier this month, saying the

chamber and the League of Women Voters were unresponsive to concerns that audiences were too liberal and conservatives couldn't ask their questions.
• The chamber says questions aren't biased against Republicans, and lawmakers will now be given 90 seconds each to talk about whatever they want.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A factual basis report on the fatal crash of a single-engine experimental airplane at the Pierre airport indicates that an entrance door was open 50 feet above the ground.

• KGFX and KCCR report that witnesses quoted in the report observed the open left "gull-wing" entrance door and saw the airplane go into a series of four up and down pitches.
• Sixty-nine-year-old Paul Lee, who owned the plane, was killed in the August crash of the SQ2000. The plane that can be built from a kit.
• The report is being forwarded to National Transportation Safety Board headquarters, which will determine a probable cause of the crash.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Investigators say they should be able to pinpoint the cause of a house fire in Sioux Falls last month that killed three children.
• Authorities got their first look inside the burned-out home Tuesday. Sioux Falls Fire Rescue investigator John Daniels tells the Argus Leader newspaper that the fire's origin and cause might be determined in as little as a week.
• KELO-TV reports that an accelerant-sniffing dog was brought in for a second time to search for any evidence of gasoline or other fuel, and again did not find anything.
• The fire early on Dec. 22 killed 16-year-old Michael Hensley, 12-year-old Savannah Coon and 6-year-old Alivia Coon. Their mother, Rhiannon White, appeared in court on drug charges on Wednesday and was assigned a court-appointed attorney, who asked for a preliminary hearing.
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