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flawed because it had no proof for its main allegations, included factual errors and misleading use of data, and had incomplete reporting. But the ombudsman said he could not determine whether the state should be doing more to keep American Indian families together.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard recently said he supports the tribes' efforts to run their own child welfare and foster care services with federal money.
• "The state is confident the Indian Child Welfare Act is being followed in these cases. The governor also has expressed his support for the idea of the tribes taking on this responsibility, if that's what they want to do," Daugaard's communications director, Tony Venhuizen, said Monday.
• Pozos said nationally only two or three tribes a year have been getting planning grants to set up their own child welfare systems, and all nine tribes in South Dakota want to start planning to do so.
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Snow making travel treacherous in western SD
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Snow is making travel treacherous in parts of western South Dakota.
• The National Weather Service says 1-2 inches of snow is expected in the region by Monday evening. The Rapid City Journal reports that the snow has made Interstate 90 off ramps slick, and that some vehicles are in the ditch.
• Light snow also is falling or expected in the Pierre area of central South Dakota and in the Yankton area in the southeast.
• The snow won't stick around for long -- the weather service says high temperatures Tuesday should in the 30s east to the 50s in the southwest.
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Body found in Minnesota River likely SD kayaker
• ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) -- Nicollet County Sheriff's deputies have recovered a body from the Minnesota River and believe it's a South Dakota kayaker missing since June.
• A fisherman found the body in a log jam on the Minnesota River at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, according to The Journal in New Ulm (http://bit.ly/17h3EXL).
• Steven Fritze's kayak overturned June 22 in a fast-moving, rising river after becoming entangled in bushes. Two friends made it to shore but Fritze did not. He was visiting family in New Ulm at the time.
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