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teenager in the head about 4 p.m. Wednesday, the sheriff's office said. The injured teenager is recovering at a Fargo hospital.
• Marshall County Sheriff Dale Elsen told KSFY television that the boys were hanging out in an area where most kids loiter after school.
• Authorities have not released the name of the injured 17-year-old because he's a minor.
• Elsen said the teen was talking and alert Thursday afternoon and should be able to go home once he's able to have something to eat.
• Groom faces charges of reckless discharge of a firearm, possession of a firearm on school property and false reporting to police. He's expected to make a court appearance on May 20.
• Attorney information for Groom was not immediately available.
• The incident remains under investigation.
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Report: Fed caseload up in S. Dakota in 2012
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Crime in Indian Country accounted for more than half of federal prosecutors' South Dakota caseload in 2012, according to a new report released by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Thursday.
• The annual report from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Dakota said there were 769 cases filed last calendar year. Of those, 46 percent were for violent crime on the state's nine Indian reservations and 7 percent were for nonviolent cases on the reservations. Immigration cases accounted for 13 percent of filed cases, while drug cases accounted for 11 percent.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson said in the report that prosecutions on the Rosebud Indian Reservation have increased 131 percent over the past four years and 82 percent on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
• "We have focused on making tribal communities safer," Johnson said. "We do not believe that prosecutions alone will make tribal communities safer, and that is why we have also engaged in extensive community outreach with our tribal partners to build a cooperative and productive relationships based on mutual trust and respect."
• Those outreach efforts included a town hall meeting in Rapid City about public safety issues in Indian Country and community group presentations.
• In fiscal year 2012, the U.S. Attorney's Office filed 552 cases involving 711 defendants. Compared to 2008, that's a 23 percent increase in the number of new cases filed and a 27 percent increase in the number of defendants.
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