• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Tribal leaders from Montana and Wyoming are due to testify during U.S. Senate committee field hearing on the federal government's troubled health program for American Indians.
• Representatives of eight tribes are scheduled to appear Tuesday.
• Montana Sen. Jon Tester chairs the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, which has jurisdiction over federal government dealings with 566 American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
• The Democrat is holding the hearing after receiving complaints from the Crow Tribe and others about poor and delayed health care provided by the Indian Health Service.
• The agency's acting director, Yvette Roubideaux, also is scheduled to appear.
• Tester and U.S. Sen. John Walsh earlier this month asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to examine problems at the agency's area office in Billings.
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No foul play suspected in SD school fire
• HOVEN, S.D. (AP) -- Hoven firefighter Rick Schaefer says officials have no reason to suspect foul play in a fire that destroyed the town's junior and senior high school.
• Schaefer tells the American News that the cause of the Sunday blaze isn't known. The state fire marshal's office will be investigating.
• Schaefer estimates that more than 100 people helped fight the fire. He says one Hoven firefighter was flown to an Aberdeen hospital with unspecified injuries. Firefighters remained on the scene Monday to deal with hot spots.
• KELO-TV reports that a donation fund has been set up in the wake of the fire, at P.O. Box 404 in Hoven. The zip code is 57450.
• About 400 people live in Hoven, in northern South Dakota.
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