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occur, and that's what actually has happened. In fact, I think there's some people around town who have forgotten about that ice storm, and that's a big, big win."
• Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in South Dakota meeting with applicants and reviewing cleanup costs in seven counties and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. President Barack Obama last month declared them disaster areas. The reservation in southern South Dakota got about 2 feet of snow during the storm, isolating some residents for a time.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A judge is granting prosecutors access to the psychological evaluation of a 17-year-old Pierre boy charged with murder.
• Defense attorneys say psychologists who questioned Braiden McCahren went too far, delving into events surrounding the Dec. 18 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Dalton Williams. They say that violated McCahren's constitutional rights, and the report should be suppressed before prosecutors can even read it.
• Prosecutor Michael Moore says he needs access to the report so he can prepare for a hearing on whether it should be allowed at trial. The Capital Journal and KCCR report Judge John Brown has granted that access and set a June 27 hearing to further discuss the report.
• The next step is a September hearing on whether the case should be transferred from adult court to juvenile court.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A proposal to expand bison grazing in Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota is being questioned by some neighboring cattle ranchers who fear it could harm their operations.
• The park's bison herd, which has been confined to a 100-square-mile area for the past 50 years, has grown to about 1,000 animals, according to National Park Service wildlife biologist Eddie Childers. The park wants to expand grazing to other areas in the national park that spreads out over nearly 400 square miles.
• Doing so would give visitors a better opportunity to see the animals and also help improve the park's natural resources, said Childers and Park Service resource manager Greg Schroeder.
• Some area cattle ranchers say the park already can't properly manage and contain its bison, some of which damage fences and end up on their private properties.
• "I'd like to see the federal government manage what they have already, instead

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