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codone in her blood.
• The patrol says a van driven by 23-year-old Sara Claggett, of Tripp, drifted into oncoming lane of Highway 37 and collided with a pickup driven by 82-year-old Donald Geidel, of Dimock.
• Both vehicles caught fire after the Sept. 25 crash and both drivers were killed.
• Claggett's 2-year-old daughter was injured.
• The state says toxicology reports show the presence of THC and hydrocodone in Claggett's blood. Tests on Geidel were negative.
• The Highway Patrol says its investigation confirmed that before the crash, a 911 caller reported the van to police after seeing a white passenger van being driven erratically on Highway 37 south of Mitchell.
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PBS documentary features 3 young Lakota
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A documentary that was scheduled to debut Monday on PBS follows three young Lakota tribal members and their political awakening in 2006 when the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was caught in the abortion debate.
• "Young Lakota" focuses on Sunny Clifford, her twin sister Serena and friend and neighbor Brandon Ferguson. Although the 2006 abortion issue provides the backdrop, the one-hour documentary more broadly explores relationships, political activism, personal choice and discovering one's heritage.
• Sunny Clifford was 21 when Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt filmed "Young Lakota" on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 2006. Clifford, now 28 and living in California, said it helped her find her voice.
• "I'm more certain of myself and have more confidence in my beliefs and values," she said in an interview Monday.
• Lipschutz and Rosenblatt, who had teamed for a string of films on reproductive health and rights, had been working on a different film in 2006 when the Oglala Sioux Tribe council called an impeachment hearing to oust Oglala Sioux Tribe president Cecelia Fire Thunder.
• South Dakota had just passed the nation's most restrictive abortion law, and Fire Thunder had proposed building a women's health clinic on the reservation because she was outraged over the proposed lack of exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
• The Clifford sisters backed Fire Thunder and worked to fight the measure that was eventually defeated by voters that November.
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