Dakotas teams ranked in final NAIA hoops polls
• JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) -- Several teams from the Dakotas are ranked in the final NAIA Division II men's and women's basketball polls.
• In the women's poll, Jamestown is No. 14 and Valley City State is No. 25. Mayville State received votes but didn't crack the Top 25.
• In the men's poll, Dakota State is tied for the 14th spot. Valley City State received votes but didn't crack the Top 25.
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1 SD missing inmate found, another still sought
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A state prison inmate who walked away from a minimum-security unit in Rapid City earlier this month is back in custody. Authorities are still looking for an inmate who failed to return to a similar unit in Sioux Falls.
• State Corrections officials say 19-year-old Cody Summerside was apprehended by local authorities on Monday near Rapid City. He had left the prison on March 8 to search for a work release job and didn't return. Summerside was serving a four-year sentence on a Meade County drug charge.
• Thirty-year-old Travis Thorngren went missing Monday from the minimum-security unit at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls. He had been serving a five-year sentence on a grand theft conviction in Lincoln County.
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SD tribes to file lawsuit against social services
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Two Native American tribes in South Dakota are expected to file a class action lawsuit Thursday alleging that the state's Department of Social Services has violated the Indian Child Welfare Act.
• The federal law requires that Native American children removed from homes be placed with relatives or put in foster care with other Native American families except in unusual circumstances.
• The Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe are set to file the lawsuit in federal court in Rapid City.
• The Department of Social Services has acknowledged a disproportionate num (Continued on page 16)
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