• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Officials have postponed a January trial in adult court for a 17-year-old Pierre boy accused of murder.
• The South Dakota Supreme Court earlier this month ordered a circuit court judge to reconsider whether Braiden McCahren should be tried in adult court. His two-week trial that was to begin Jan. 21 has now been called off, and attorneys have scheduled a bond hearing and two motions hearings in the coming weeks.
• McCahren has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in the shooting death last Dec. 18 of 16-year-old Dalton Williams in McCahren's home, when McCahren was 16.
• Judge John Brown ordered McCahren to stand trial as an adult rather than as a juvenile, but the Supreme Court sided with defense attorneys on appeal and ordered Brown to reconsider.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- People who lost jobs or became unable to do business because of the early October blizzard that hit western South Dakota have until next Wednesday to file for disaster unemployment insurance.
• The state Department of Labor and Regulation says that to be eligible for benefits, workers must be unemployed or self-employed people must be unable to do business as a direct result of the snowstorm and subsequent flooding that occurred from Oct. 3 through Oct. 16.
• The filing deadline applies to people hurt by the storm in Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Perkins, Shannon and Ziebach counties. That area includes the Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge Indian reservations.
• People can apply for benefits by calling the Unemployment Insurance Call Center at 605-626-3179.
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