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Groton Daily Independent
Monday, June 26, 2017 ~ Vol. 24 - No. 347 ~ 9 of 39
News from the
Police: Man threatens children with gun in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A man is under arrest after police say he threatened his children with a gun in Sioux Falls.
Law of cers responded late Saturday to a report of an intoxicated man who had allegedly threatened his children with a rearm in a northeast Sioux Falls neighborhood. Authorities believed the man was still inside the home with several children, so surrounding roads were shut down and a perimeter was established.
But authorities learned the man had left in a vehicle before of cers arrived. He was eventually located and arrested in Minnehaha County without incident.
The children were all located. One had minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
The man is being held on suspicion of assault and possession of a rearm while intoxicated.
Car hits, injures 2 pedestrian in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police say a car struck and injured two pedestrians in a late-night hit-and-run.
Police and paramedics were called late Saturday and found a man and a woman lying in the street. The man was conscious but had suffered a broken leg and internal injuries. The woman had multiple broken bones and was not conscious or breathing.
Of cers began CPR on the woman. Both victims were taken to Avera McKennan Hospital, where medical personnel were able to revive and stabilize the woman.
Investigators were called to reconstruct the accident scene. Witnesses describe the vehicle as a four- door blue sedan. Two males were seen in the car at the time of the crash.
Dakota Access review to re-examine impact on tribe By BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge’s order for more environmental review of the already-operating Dakota Access oil pipeline has several potential outcomes, all of which could spark even more wrangling in a Washington, D.C., court room. The big question is whether the pipeline will be shut down while the case plays out — and if so, for how long.
Some questions and answers about the case:
WHAT IS THE PIPELINE AGAIN?
The $3.8 billion pipeline built by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners moves oil from western North
Dakota to a distribution point in Illinois, where it can be shipped to the Gulf Coast and potentially lucra- tive markets abroad. It began operating June 1 and has the capacity to move half of North Dakota’s daily oil production. American Indian tribes in the Dakotas fear environmental and cultural harm — which ETP disputes — and are trying to persuade a federal judge to shut down the line that they’ve been battling nearly a year.
WHY IS THE COURT CASE STILL UNRESOLVED?
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on June 14 ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers “largely complied” with environmental law when permitting the pipeline. But he also said they didn’t adequately consider how an oil spill under the Missouri River might affect the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s shing and hunting rights, or whether it might disproportionately affect the tribal community — a concept known as environmental justice. That aims to ensure development projects aren’t built in areas where minority populations might not have the resources to defend their rights.
In its analysis of the Missouri River crossing, the Corps studied the mostly white demographics in a half- mile (0.8-kilometer) radius, which the agency maintains is standard. But if the agency had gone another