.Chippewa Cree Tribe

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A jury has found the former head of the Chippewa Cree Tribe's water department not guilty of federal charges that he lied to authorities about contamination to a drinking water tank.

A judge has denied prosecutors a mental exam for Jesus Deniz Mendoza, the Wyoming teenager accused of gunning down a husband and wife and wounding their daughter on Montana's Crow Reservation.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — The former finance manager of a Chippewa Cree tribal clinic in Box Elder has been sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling federal money provided to the tribe to operate the clinic.