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• Glen Yellow Eagle with the tribe's disaster office says winds in Tuesday's storms near Parmelee destroyed a trailer house and blew another mobile home off its foundation. He says another house near Norris had part of its roof blown off.
• Yellow Eagle says a lot of roads were washed out and a dam breached that drained into another dam, which caused flooding in several houses that had to be evacuated.
• He says hail damaged numerous windows.
• The National Weather Service says the storms packed winds gusting to 70 mph.
• There also was a brief tornado touchdown in Haakon County, with no immediate reports of damage.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Investigators told jurors that a South Dakota man accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter punched the girl in the head, but his attorneys contend the child fell from a chair.
• Testimony began Tuesday in the trial for Mario Contreras of Waubay, who is charged with murder and other crimes in connection to the death last year of his daughter, Aleeyah Cook. If convicted during his federal trial in Sioux Falls, he could face life in prison.
• Defense attorney Sam Khoroosi told jurors that on Jan. 9, 2012, Aleeyah fell from a chair while eating at the kitchen table and that her 35-year-old father did everything he could to try to save her, the American News and KELO-TV reported. She died three days later at a hospital in Fargo, N.D.
• Khoroosi argued that that when Contreras got Aleeyah from her mother on Jan. 4, the girl seemed lethargic and sickly and was vomiting. When he noticed the child was unresponsive on Jan. 9, Contreras took her to see his uncle who lived nearby and knew CPR, though he couldn't resuscitate the girl, Khoroosi said.
• But the assistant medical examiner in Minnesota's Ramsey County who conducted the autopsy, Victor Froloff, testified that injuries to Aleeyah's head and brain were caused by fists, not falls.
• FBI agent Robert Mertz, who interviewed Contreras after the death, testified that Contreras told him the girl also fell from a folding chair to a floor on Jan. 6, while being watched by someone else. And Mertz said Contreras told him that Aleeyah also fell in the shower on Jan. 7.
• The trial is scheduled to run through the rest of the week.
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