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gas to one of the houses because of a leak.
• Police say the bus hit one house, then crossed the street and crashed into another house. The 66-year-old driver told authorities he blacked out and doesn't remember anything. He was taken to a hospital to have a head injury checked. He wasn't immediately identified.
• No one in the houses was hurt. Twenty-six-year-old Kara Avery was in a room near a bedroom where the bus came to rest. She tells the Argus Leader that she initially thought the noise was thunder. -- until she smelled burning rubber and oil.
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Week of rain boosts soil moisture in South Dakota
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A week of rainy weather has boosted soil moisture for South Dakota farmers getting their crops in the field.
• The federal Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop and weather report that much of the state got an inch or more of rain over the past week, but about three days still were suitable for field work.
• Topsoil moisture supplies in the state are now rated 79 percent adequate to surplus, up from 72 percent a week ago. Subsoil moisture supplies are rated 80 percent adequate to surplus, up from 78 percent.
• More than half of South Dakota's spring wheat crop is now in the ground, along with one-fourth of the corn crop. Planting of soybeans has just gotten underway.
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Hypothermia ruled cause of Sioux reservation death
BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- An autopsy has concluded that a woman found dead in an unheated home during a propane shortage on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas froze to death.
• The body of Debbie Dogskin, 61, was found Feb. 4 in a Fort Yates mobile home with an empty propane fuel tank. Authorities had speculated that she died from the cold -- the overnight temperature had dropped to 1 degree below zero -- and the official cause of death has now been listed as "systemic hypothermia due to exposure to cold temperature," according to Sioux County Sheriff Frank Landeis.
• Authorities are still awaiting results of toxicology tests that will show if Dogskin had drugs or alcohol in her system, the sheriff said.
• Landeis referred other questions about the investigation to Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement officers in Fort Yates, who referred the questions to the BIA's regional office in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Assistant Special Agent in Charge (Continued on page 22)
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