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Groton Daily Independent
Sunday, June 10, 2018 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 331 ~ 17 of 43
South Dakota family recovers from injuries after house fire
STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man says his family injured in a house fire last month should make a full recovery.
Bill McKee told The Black Hills Pioneer that doctors have predicted his son, Jason McKee, daughter, Mandy McKee, and grandson, Ethan Baker, will fully heal with time. The three family members suffered smoke inhalation injuries in the May 12 fire that destroyed McKee’s home in Sturgis. It’s unclear what caused the fire.
McKee’s adult children and his grandson were staying in his house when the fire broke out early in the morning. Ethan Baker was sleeping on the living room couch and alerted the others. Bill McKee, his wife, Cherie, and his daughter and grandson were able to evacuate the burning house, but Jason McKee was still stuck inside.
Sturgis police arrived on scene before the fire department and rescued Jason McKee.
“If it weren’t for those officers trying and trying and trying to get him out, he wouldn’t be here today,” Bill McKee said. “I tried so many ways to get in that house. I couldn’t do it and they did.”
Jason McKee said he will be forever grateful to the officers who saved his life.
“Everyone is doing very well, but it’s going to take a very long time for them to heal,” Bill McKee said. “The smoke in their lungs has been cleared, but they have to be really careful.”
Bill and Cherie McKee are living in a motel while the insurance company settles plans for their former home’s future.
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Information from: Black Hills Pioneer, http://www.bhpioneer.com
Peltier supporter says pardon request ‘worth the effort’
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A supporter of jailed American Indian activist Leonard Peltier says he considers President Donald Trump “a wild card” who might be willing to look into setting Peltier free.
The 73-year-old Peltier has spent most of his life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents in South Da- kota in 1975. President Barack Obama denied a clemency request for Peltier before leaving office last year. A Peltier attorney has filed a formal request asking Trump to grant a pardon or commute Peltier’s sen- tence. Paralegal Sheridan Murphy tells KFGO radio that “it’s certainly worth the effort” because “you have
no idea” what Trump will do.
Murphy says Peltier is in poor health and wants to go home to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation
in North Dakota.
The White House declined comment.
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Information from: KFGO-AM, http://www.kfgo.com
Authorities identify woman killed in Meade County crash
WASTA, S.D. (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman who died in one-vehicle rollover in Meade County.
The Highway Patrol says 65-year-old Carol Barber, of Wall, was driving north of Wasta Tuesday afternoon when she lost control of her pickup truck on a curve. The truck traveled into a ditch and rolled over.
Barber was alone in the vehicle. The patrol says she was wearing a seatbelt.
Isolated Kim takes big gamble leaving home for Trump summit By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press
SINGAPORE (AP) — Spare a moment, as you anticipate one of the most unusual summits in modern his- tory, to consider North Korea’s leader as he left the all-encompassing bubble of his locked-down stronghold of Pyongyang on Sunday and stepped off a jet onto Singapore soil for his planned sit-down with President Donald Trump on Tuesday.