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• A recent agreement between the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and the state Highway Patrol to ensure safety at a powwow demonstrates that the two groups can collaborate without getting mixed up in issues of sovereignty and jurisdiction, he said.
• "South Dakota and the tribes can redefine their relationship through cooperative agreements," he said.
• LaPlante said he's laid a foundation for future secretaries, but there are still major problems to address. Affordable housing on reservations is an ongoing issue, and LaPlante and committee members agreed that problems with restraining orders are also worth a close look. Sen. Billie Sutton, D-Burke, said he's heard of reservation residents getting a restraining order but finding it doesn't apply in other parts of the state.
• LaPlante said that he thinks state officials will find a good replacement but said that the work is not easy. He said his department is a "generalist agency" because it deals with a wide range of issues, from education and social services to public safety. He's worked with every other state agency, legislators and with leadership in all nine tribes in the state.
• Daugaard's office says it is still accepting resumes from candidates interested in the position.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court will hear a second appeal of in the case of a man who helped kill a guard at the State Penitentiary.
• Rodney Berget was sentenced to death for the 2011 killing of Ron Johnson during a failed escape attempt. Berget was serving two life sentences for attempted murder and rape.
• The state Supreme Court overturned his initial death sentence because of an error by the judge in the case, but Berget was sentenced again to death last year. Berget is now arguing that the trial court should have taken additional evidence at the second sentencing.
• Arguments are slated for Tuesday.
• Two other inmates were involved in Johnson's death. Michael Nordman was sentenced to life in prison, and Eric Robert was executed in 2012.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has been

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