Saturday, 10.24.15 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net ress akotan NEWSROOM: [email protected] P &D the midwest PAGE 11B 21 Arrested In Family Violence Sweep RAPID CITY (AP) — Authorities in Pennington County say States Reliant On Fossil Fuels they’ve arrested 21 people on various charges as part of a fam- ily violence warrants sweep. Officers checked 97 addresses on Wednesday during two sweeps that coincided with Domestic Violence Awareness month. Sue Over New Clean Air Rules The participating agencies included the Box Elder Police Department, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, BY MICHAEL BIESECKER counter that the rules are hibits “double regulation.” company. Parole Services, the Black Hills Fugitive Task Associated Press needed to cut carbon emis- Under the act, certain chal- Members of Congress from Force, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Rapid City Police Depart- sions while curbing the worst lenges to agency rules skip the coal-mining states joined in, ment and the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office. WASHINGTON — States impacts of climate change and federal district court and go saying they will introduce new Pennington County Sheriff’s Capt. Marty Graves praised and industry groups depend- sea-level rise. They also say directly to the appeals court legislation aimed at blocking the agencies’ work and preparation to make such a high ent on fossil fuels filed court the plan will spur new clean- in Washington, D.C. the EPA from enforcing the number of arrests. challenges Friday to President energy jobs. Morrisey also filed a stay plan. Barack Obama’s Clean Power The new rules require barring the plan from taking On the other side, 15 states Plan, which aims to reduce states to cut carbon emissions effect while the court chal- and the District of Columbia SD Has First Confirmed Case Of The Flu greenhouse gas emissions. by 30 percent by 2030. Each lenges proceed, a question say they are backing the Opponents of the plan filed state has a customized target that will likely be up to the Obama administration and will PIERRE (AP) — South Dakota has its first confirmed case of a flurry of lawsuits at the U.S. and is responsible for drawing Supreme Court. begin working to comply with the flu this season. Court of Appeals as the Envi- up an effective plan to meet “We expect polluters and the new rules. Health Department officials say the case is in a Marshall ronmental Protection Agency its goal. their allies to throw every- There is some political County resident in the 70-79 age group. The person was hos- published its final version of “We are confident we will thing they’ve got at the Clean variation in the positions pitalized. the new regulations. again prevail against these Power Plan, and we expect taken within the states. In State Health and Medical Services Director Colleen Winter The challenges from all but challenges and will be able to them to fail,” said Sierra Club North Carolina, for example, says people who haven’t been vaccinated yet should get a flu two of the 25 states were filed work with states to successful- Executive Director Michael the environmental agency shot. by Republicans. They deride ly implement these first-ever Brune, among those defend- controlled by the Republican The 2014-15 flu season was one of the deadliest in South the plan as an “unlawful power national standards to limit ing the law. “The Clean Power governor joined the opposi- Dakota history, with nearly 800 hospitalizations and 63 deaths. grab by Washington bureau- carbon pollution, the largest Plan is based on a law passed tion without the participation crats” that will kill coal mining source of carbon emissions in by Congress, upheld by the of the state’s Democratic jobs and drive up electricity the ,” said EPA Supreme Court, and demand- attorney general. Prosecutors Drop SD Midwife’s Case costs. Administrator Gina McCarthy. ed by the American people.” Governors in Colorado, BROKEN BOW, Neb. (AP) — prosecutors have “The Clean Power Plan is The EPA says it has author- The states challenging the Michigan and New Mexico said dropped their case involving an unlicensed midwife who was one of the most far-reaching ity to enact the plan under plan in court are Alabama, they will work to comply with charged with manslaughter and other crimes in the 2011 death energy regulations in this the Clean Air Act. At issue Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, the new EPA rules, even as of a newborn. nation’s history,” said West are dueling provisions added Florida, Georgia, Indiana, attorneys general from their Sixty-eight-year-old Judy Jones, of Irene, South Dakota, also Virginia Attorney General to the law by the House and Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, states joined the lawsuit. was charged with practicing without a license and criminal Patrick Morrisey, among those Senate in 1990. The EPA’s inter- Michigan, Missouri, Montana, “Clean air and protecting impersonation. Authorities say Jones helped deliver a baby in leading the challenges. “I have pretation relies on the Senate Nebraska, New Jersey, North public health should be every- a rural Custer County home in September 2011, defying orders a responsibility to protect the language, but opponents argue Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, one’s top priority,” Colorado prohibiting her from practicing as a midwife in Nebraska and lives of millions of working that the House version should South Carolina, South Dakota, Gov. John Hickenlooper, a South Dakota. The infant died shortly after birth. families, the elderly and the win out. Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Democrat, said Friday. “We After several delays, Jones was scheduled to go on trial poor, from such illegal and EPA already regulates Wyoming and Wisconsin. believe that Colorado can beginning April 19 next year. Custer County Attorney Steven unconscionable federal gov- other power-plant pollutants Also filing suit against the achieve the clean air goals Bowers says the case was dropped because the parties in- ernment actions.” under a different section of EPA on Friday was Murray set by the EPA, at little or no volved didn’t want to proceed. But Bowers also says the state The Obama administration the Clean Air Act, and the Energy Corp., the nation’s increased cost to our could refile charges later if the parties were to change their and environmental groups opponents claim the law pro- largest privately owned coal residents.” minds. Boat Deployed To Reach Trucker In Pond NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Western Nebraska authori- Big Jumps Ahead In South Dakota Individual Market Premiums ties say a truck driver was rescued from his big rig after it ran BY JAMES NORD care law face an average rate increase of grows older, insurers get more stability in off Interstate 80 into a pond. Associated Press almost 43 percent for next year, said Chief their pricing — with two years of experi- Firefighters and Nebraska State Patrol troopers were sent Financial Officer David Brown. A much ence, Sandene said the company is more to the scene about two miles west of the Maxwell exit around PIERRE — Tens of thousands of larger group of about 36,000 enrollees confident about these rates. 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The patrol says most of the truck cab was South Dakota residents who buy health that have pre-Affordable Care Act plans Avera Health Plans Chief Adminis- submerged. coverage individually, including through are seeing an average rate increase of trative Officer Debra Muller said the Rescuers deployed a boat to reach the cab. They used a the federal marketplace created by the almost 15 percent. organization is hiking rates by an average Jaws of Life to cut a hole in the cab because the cab doors Affordable Care Act, are facing premium Brown said the 43 percent average of 13.7 percent, which would affect about couldn’t be opened and the driver couldn’t escape through hikes for next year ranging from an aver- rate increase is driven by a sicker enrollee 11,100 enrollees. Muller, like other carrier any of its windows. The driver was taken to a North Platte age of about 13 percent to as much as 63 pool than the company anticipated. He executives, cited a big surge in drug costs hospital after he was freed and reached dry ground. percent. said those customers used more prescrip- as a factor but said the firm has been able The accident cause is being investigated. South Dakota’s four main individual tions than anticipated, including high-cost to keep other expenses down. market insurers confirmed to The Associ- specialty drugs, and nearly a third more Kelsey Collier-Wise of Vermillion and ated Press this week their rate increases people than expected had claims that her husband currently pay about $261 a Police Find Nearly 63 Pounds Of Pot for 2016. Insurance company executives exceeded $50,000. month through the exchange — a subsidy OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man bound for Wis- cite surging drug costs to many more “I wouldn’t be surprised if we lost mar- cuts the cost by more than half. Collier- consin has been arrested after officers found nearly 63 pounds people than expected racking up large ket share,” Brown said of the hike, adding Wise, executive director of the United of marijuana in the vehicle. medical bills. that the company has to focus on viability Way of Vermillion, said they’re pleased The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says the sport utility Roughly 73,000 state residents and that it can’t afford to underprice. with their coverage through Sanford but vehicle was pulled over along Interstate 80 in eastern Omaha enrolled in individual health coverage With DakotaCare’s departure from the still plan to shop around during open around 9:20 p.m. Thursday. A deputy became suspicious of in 2014, according to the Kaiser Family federal health insurance marketplace, enrollment. the driver and called for a drug dog. The dog alerted officers Foundation. Nearly 19,000 South Dakotans just two firms —Avera Health Plans and And even with a potential premium to the back of the SUV, and the deputy reported finding the have gotten coverage through the federal Sanford Health Plan — are selling cover- hike, Collier-Wise said the subsidies marijuana in three suitcases. exchange and paid their premiums, ac- age through the exchange. Consumers mean the family can likely stomach the The Sheriff’s Office says 22-year-old Joshua Wolenec, a resi- cording to federal figures through June 30. who use the marketplace are eligible for increase. With their daughter also now dent of Wisconsin, was arrested on suspicion of possession for Two companies that offer plans federal assistance, and open enrollment covered through Medicaid, the fam- sale and a tax stamp violation. Online court records don’t list outside of the exchange, DakotaCare and begins Nov. 1. ily’s health insurance bill has dropped the name of an attorney who could be contacted to comment Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, are hik- Both Sanford and Avera’s rate increas- dramatically. on Wolenec’s behalf. ing premiums dramatically. DakotaCare es are for plans on and off the exchange. “For us, the nice thing is that with the Chief Marketing Officer Greg Jasmer said Jeff Sandene, interim president of subsidy, we’re paying so much less than next year’s individual market rates are Sanford Health Plan, said about 5,000 we were paying prior to the (Affordable increasing by an average of 63.2 percent, Sanford members, most of whom get Care Act), that the gulf between now and Ride Service Paid $3K To Settle Complaint which affects about 4,300 members. coverage through the exchange, face an what we used to pay is really huge, so LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A state official says the ride-hailing About 15,000 Wellmark members who average premium increase of about 13 there’s a lot of movement in there that we service Lyft paid $3,000 to settle a complaint filed by Nebraska have plans compliant with the health percent next year. As the health care law can probably absorb,” she said. regulators. The Nebraska Public Service Commission accused the -based company in July of failing to seek authority to operate in Nebraska and of operating illegally in the state for more than a year. Lyft later applied for the authority, which Film Narrates Efforts To Preserve Lakota Language In SD, ND was granted in September. The commissioners agreed to close the complaint Tuesday, BY REGINA GARCIA CANO said producer Larry Hott. “I wasn’t able to speak began to incorporate Lakota after Lyft paid the fine. Associated Press “They are the ones that Hol- Lakota to my own children words during practices for The commission’s Mark Breiner (BREYE’-nur) said Friday lywood thinks of; the Lakota because I was afraid for shoot, pass, dribble, miss that the commission typically doesn’t include the amount of SIOUX FALLS — A docu- have the headdresses, and the them and what shame they and rebound. fines in its orders. He also said the settlement with Lyft did not mentary that chronicles ef- buffalo, and the teepee, and would have to go through,” Philomine Lakota is now include any provision for keeping the amount confidential. forts on reservations in North Sitting Bull. So, in the Ameri- Philomine Lakota said in the a Lakota teacher at Red Dakota and South Dakota to can imagination, this is what film, her voice cracking. “I Cloud Indian High School in save the language of the La- an American Indian looks like. was afraid that they would Pine Ridge, where students Groups Want Marker Near Sculptor’s Home kota people is set to premiere “This is a community that’s be rejected in their educa- take daily classes in Lakota on public television stations very famous, that’s iconic, tion system and go through and she encourages them to CAIRO, Neb. (AP) — Two groups want to erect a histori- nationwide in November. that’s actually known around cal marker near the home of a Hall County pioneer who later the world, and here you have the punishments that I went fight for the “biggest battle The 55-minute film “Rising through.” of their lives,” which she be- became a noted sculptor of frontier life in the American West. Voices” highlights how class- a language that was once Members of the Hall County Historical Society and the Cai- room instruction and immer- spoken by many, many more A Lakota immersion lieves is the one to preserve ro Roots group visited a spot northwest of Cairo on Thursday sion preschools, dictionaries, thousands than those who program in Fort Yates, their language. where Solon Borglum lived while ranching on his father’s land voice recordings and animated speak it now. There’s only North Dakota, highlighted “There are days when in the 1880s. Borglum got his start there as an artist carving cartoons are being used to 6,000 speakers left. That cre- by the documentary had 11 we have real good days and the likenesses of Native Americans. preserve the Lakota language, ates a race against time.” children between the ages of they just start speaking Solon Borglum was the younger brother of which is estimated to be The film addresses what is 3 and 5 when the film crew Lakota on their own, and and uncle of , the two men credited with the spoken by fewer than 6,000 now seen as a dark moment in visited. Enrolled students my heart swells with pride, carvings at in South Dakota. people — less than 14 percent federal education mandates: traveled from Bismarck and and I say we have hope, we “Originally, he was a rancher,” said Jean Lukesh, who has of the Lakota population in the assimilation policy that other areas, some making a have hope, I have hope, I written a book about Solon Borglum, “Secret Brother, The North and South Dakota — forced Native American chil- two-hour round trip every have hope, they are doing Story of Solon Borglum, ‘Sculptor of the Prairie.’” with an average age that will dren into boarding schools, day. it and I don’t want to break “He was just out here ranching, but he always did sketches. soon reach 70. where students were forced He was doing sketches from the time he was a little kid. In another effort, a bas- their momentum,” she said. In the documentary, a wide to speak English and were ketball coach tells how he “Those are rare.” Always cowboys, Indians, horses, cattle and those sort of range of Lakota people and punished when they were things,” Lukesh said. some non-Native Ameri- caught speaking in their native The Borglum land now is owned by Charles Kemptar, who cans who have learned the tongues. The policy inherently guided Thursday’s visitors to where Borglum lived in a dugout language share the successes limited or erased the Lakota dwelling and to the bluffs where he carved into the clay soil. and challenges they’ve faced fluency of some Native Ameri- Yankton Transmission The carvings “would last about four or five years and then in furthering the reach of the cans who later were unable they would wash out,” Kemptar said. •Transmissions • Drive Lines SSpecialistspecialists tongue. or refused to teach it to their 2409 East Highway 50 When Gutzon Borglum visited his younger brother in 1893 children and the children of • Transfer Cases • Differentials “The Lakota are the most 2 Year/24,000 Guarantee he was impressed with Solon’s development as artistic skills iconic of American Indians,” their children. and asked him to move to California with him so he could (605) 665-1175 teach him to be an artist. 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