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Egypt: Drive-by shooting east of Cairo kills 1 army officer, 4 soldiers
• CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian security officials say one army officer and four soldiers were killed in a drive-by shooting east of Cairo.
• The officials say the five were on patrol in a pickup truck when masked gunmen in another vehicle opened fire at them in an area west of the Suez Canal city of Ismailia on Monday.
• The officials say the killed officer was a lieutenant. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
• The drive-by attack and a blast earlier on Monday that hit a security headquarters building in southern Sinai, killing two and wounding nearly 50 people, come a day after at least 51 people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
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AP IMPACT: Audits show Indian tribes mishandle millions in fed funds, suffer few consequences
• ETHETE, Wyo. (AP) -- American Indian tribes have been caught misappropriating tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, according to internal tribal audits and other documents. But federal authorities do little about it -- due to a lack of oversight, resources or political will.
• The result? Poor tribes like the Northern Arapaho of Wyoming suffer.
• One Arapaho manager pocketed money meant to buy meals for tribal elders. Another used funds from the reservation's diabetes program to subsidize personal shopping trips. And other members plundered the tribal welfare fund, then gambled the money away at one of the tribe's casinos.
• Altogether, employees drained at least a half-million dollars from the coffers of a tribe whose members have a median household income of about $16,000 a year.
• Federal agencies questioned millions more dollars the Northern Arapaho government spent, but decided not to recover any of the money -- and even increased funding to the tribe.
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