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Sheldon and his family.
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SD reservation school honoring volunteers
• PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- A school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is honoring the work of its volunteer staff next week.
• Red Cloud Indian School says it will recognize and highlight the work of its 32 volunteers during the week of March 9-17.
• The week coincides with the national celebration of AmeriCorps Week.
• Volunteers at Red Cloud hold a range of positions at the school, including serving as librarians, bus drivers, teachers and program directors.
• Red Cloud Superintendent Ted Hamilton says the volunteers and AmeriCorps members have a tremendous impact in the school.
• The volunteers will be honored through various events.
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AP News in Brief
US defense chief visits Afghanistan as explosions in Kabul, eastern province kill at least 18
• KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber on a bicycle struck outside the Afghan Defense Ministry on Saturday, one of two attacks that killed at least 18 people as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited the nation, officials said.
• Nine people were killed in the bombing at the ministry, a fresh reminder that insurgents continue to fight and challenges remain as the U.S.-led NATO force hands over the country's security to the Afghans.
• About a half hour later, another suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Khost, the capital of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan. An Afghan policeman and eight civilians, who were mostly children, died in that blast, said provincial spokesman Baryalai Wakman.
• "We are still at war," Hagel said shortly before he arrived on Friday, the same day that three men wearing Afghan army uniforms and driving an Afghan army vehicle forced their way onto a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan and opened fire, killing one civilian contractor and wounding other U.S. troops.
• On Saturday, a U.S. military official identified the dead contractor as an American citizen, and added that four U.S. soldiers were injured in the attack. The official said investigators were "95 percent certain it was an insider attack," because the three men came from the Afghan side of the joint U.S.-Afghan base, and rammed an Af (Continued on page 46)
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