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• Emergency personnel responded to the accident around 11:50 p.m. Sunday. Authorities say the man lost control of the vehicle, went into the ditch, overcorrected and rolled the car.
• Swenson says authorities first believed the man had been ejected from the vehicle.
• Police say the man is also wanted in connection with another incident.
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Residents being urged to keep vaccines up-to-date
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Health officials in Sioux Falls are urging residents to verify that their vaccinations are up-to-date, following a reported increase in the number of pertussis cases in South Dakota.
• The state Health Department late last week said 29 cases of pertussis or whooping cough had been reported statewide so far this year, compared to 67 in all of last year. More than one-third of this year's cases have been in the Black Hills.
• Sioux Falls health officials are also concerned about the reported cases of measles in Minnesota.
• Jill Franken is the city's public health director. She says it is important that adults and children are fully immunized.
• Vaccines are available at the Falls Community Health center. Residents can schedule an appointment by phone at 605 367-8793.
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Senate chair: fix 'dysfunctional' Indian health
MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The chairman of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee says he wants the Obama administration to address the "dysfunction" that is hobbling Native American health care and causing rising dissatisfaction over poor and delayed care on reservations.
• Chairman Jon Tester has invited tribal leaders from Montana and Wyoming to a Tuesday field hearing in Billings to air grievances about the U.S. Indian Health Service -- a $4.4 billion agency that provides health care for 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.
• The agency's director for Montana and Wyoming, Anna Whiting-Sorrell, resigned this month after just over a year on the job, saying her efforts to help Indians were frustrated by the agency's failure to connect with tribes that suffer from high rates of diabetes, substance abuse, heart disease and other illnesses.
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