March 11, 2015

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Bill Badger was a hero even before he helped save people’s lives during the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting in a grocery store parking lot that killed six people and injured 13, including former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords. The Army veteran died Wednesday morning of pneumonia, according to his wife, Sallie Badger. […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South-Dakota based Raven Industries Inc., which makes products from high-tech farming equipment to balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, is citing a weak agricultural market as it lays off 115 employees. The move Tuesday is part of a plan to save the company $13 million a year following months […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota House and Senate are trying to figure out whether current college students should receive increases in the amount of their Opportunity Scholarships. The House voted Wednesday to not sign off on an altered version of a measure that would increase the per-student amounts of the scholarship only for […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s new acting U.S. attorney says he’s going to apply for the permanent job. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler (SY’-ler) takes over leadership of the office on Wednesday from Brendan Johnson, who stepped down for a job in private practice. Seiler will be in charge of the office until […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A man fishing on Bitter Lake has caught the largest yellow perch ever recorded in South Dakota. Aurora resident Chase Jensen iced the monster perch on Saturday. The fish weighed 2 pounds 13 ounces, that’s two ounces heavier than the previous yellow perch record. State wildlife officials say yellow perch is […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities in southeast South Dakota say an inmate at a county jail died at a hospital Wednesday after he was found hanging in his cell. Minnehaha County Chief Deputy Sheriff Michelle Boyd says inmate Phillip Sean Bland was found hanging from his bedsheets shortly after midnight. Boyd says Bland still […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s U.S. attorney leaves the job Wednesday for private practice. Brendan Johnson is opening a Sioux Falls office for the Minneapolis-based law firm Robins Kaplan LLP. He says he’ll spend about 40 percent of his time in South Dakota and the rest in Minneapolis and elsewhere nationwide where the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Raven Industries Inc. is citing a weak agricultural market as its reason to lay off 115 employees. The Argus Leader ( ) reports the employees were let go Tuesday. The cuts are part of a plan intended to save the company $13 million a year. The net income of the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The Legislature’s budget-writing committee has adopted revenue estimates for the upcoming budget cycle that are short of projections made when Gov. Dennis Daugaard proposed his state budget in December. The Joint Appropriations Committee voted 13-4 along party lines to adopt recommendations from a sub-panel. That means lawmakers are looking at about […]