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fices in counties with courthouses. Healy said he believes Gant has authority to allocate money for those voting stations under the state's plan for carrying out the federal act.
• Gant said he doesn't believe the state Election Board should go on record supporting the three proposed satellite offices until the state checks with the federal Election Assistance Commission, which oversees some aspects of the Help America Vote Act and audits use of its funds.
• Asked if he would support setting up the satellite offices if federal officials approve, Gant said he first wants to find out if federal officials will allow the spending.
• "First, we need that answer before we deal with all kinds of hypotheticals," Gant said.
• Board member Linda Lea Viken, a Rapid City lawyer, said she believes the board should support setting up the satellite voting offices to improve Native American access to registration and voting.
• Four Directions estimates the satellite offices would cost only $15,000 to $16,000 each for the 2014 election cycle. Viken said the state now has $9 million in Help America Vote funds.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A woman has testified that the man standing trial in Rapid City for manslaughter had blood on him about the time of the slaying.
• Miranda Brown Bull took the witness stand Wednesday in the trial of Charles Birds Head, who's accused of shooting to death Eustactio Maruffo in a motel parking lot.
• KOTA-TV (http://bit.ly/1bLnXUf ) reports that Brown Bull said Birds Head was staying with her and returned the night of the killing agitated and bloody. Brown Bull said when she asked Birds Head about the killing after hearing about it on the news, he replied, "he's dead."
• Brown Bull said she then asked Birds Head for the gun, which she hid at her aunt's home. Brown Bull said she later gave it police, along with Birds Head's bloody winter coat that he was wearing.
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• ROSEBUD, S.D. (AP) -- High winds, hail and flash flooding from severe thunderstorms destroyed a trailer house and damaged other homes on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

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