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Huron lawyer appointed magistrate judge in SD
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court has appointed a Huron lawyer to be a new magistrate judge in a judicial circuit that covers 14 counties in the eastern part of the state.
• Carmen Means will be sworn in on Friday.
• Means graduated from Madison High School in 1985, received an undergraduate degree at Georgetown University, and then obtained a law degree from Creighton University in 1993. She worked as a public defender and recently was in private practice in Huron.
• The 3rd Judicial Circuit includes Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody and Sanborn counties.
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Memorial run at Black Hills State honors student
• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- Black Hills State University is holding its annual memorial run in memory of a former BHSU student killed in a 1984 car accident.
• The Kevin Whirlwind Horse Memorial Run honors Whirlwind, who was raised around horses and was an avid rider. It's held each year in conjunction with the Lakota Omniciye spring powwow.
• The race begins at 10:30 a.m. Sunday and is open to people of all ages.
• All proceeds go to Kevin Whirlwind Horse Memorial Scholarship Fund.
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Daskotas tribe holding hearings about foster care
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is hosting two hearings about Native Americans in the foster care system ahead of a planned summit next month.
• The tribe is hosting a pre-summit hearing April 20 at the Grand River Casino in Mobridge, S.D., and another one on April 26 at Prairie Nights Casino in Fort Yates, N.D.
• The Bureau of Indian Affairs is holding a summit in May in Rapid City to address concerns raised by tribal members.
• At the hearings, relatives of children in the foster care system will be able to (Continued on page 16)
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