May 2015

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Police in Rapid City have identified the victim of a fatal shooting that occurred early Monday. Police on Tuesday identified the victim as 22-year-old Charles Metcalf of Rapid City. Authorities say preliminary results from an autopsy indicate the cause of death to be multiple gunshot wounds. Authorities say a 20-year-old […]

MOBRIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The northern South Dakota city of Mobridge has broken a century-old precipitation record. Meteorologist Ken Gillespie with the National Weather Service in Aberdeen says the community of 3,500 residents is having its wettest month on record with 9.16 inches of precipitation so far in May. The city’s previous highest rainfall total […]

VOLGA, S.D. (AP) — The sheriff’s office in Brookings County is looking for a man who exposed himself to a woman. Authorities tell KBRK-AM that the suspect was driving a gray or silver Dodge Durango with Moody County license plates when he stopped and asked a Volga woman for directions to the post office. He […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota medical marijuana supporter hopes to begin gathering signatures within a month to put a proposal on the 2016 ballot to allow people with serious medical conditions to use pot. Activist Melissa Mentele said Tuesday that her ballot measure language is now under review at the state Attorney […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Police in Sioux Falls say thieves in the past few months have dug holes in the drywall separating apartment garages and have burglarized over 10 of them. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says the most recent incident in which police believe a suspect moved from one garage to another through holes […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Last fall, hundreds of publicly owned bison went to private owners, but there wasn’t always an exchange of money. All four of the government-owned herds in the western Dakotas were rounded up in a string of operations across the region’s expansive plains, badlands and forests. In all, more than 3,000 […]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Active- duty military personnel and their families will have free access to more than a dozen South Dakota museums this summer. The Blue Star Museum program that kicks off this week and runs through Labor Day has included 11 museums across the state in its annual effort to offer free admission […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Biologists say prairie grouse populations are continuing to rebound in South Dakota after the drought of 2012. The Pierre Capital Journal ( ) reports that spring lek counts from both state and federal biologists showed significantly higher numbers than last year’s counts.buy ventolin generic https://rxbuywithoutprescriptionrxonline.com/ventolin.html over the counter Wildlife biologist Ruben […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison after being convicted of seriously injuring a woman in 2008 on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation straddling the Dakotas. Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says 37-year-old Stoney End Of Horn was sentenced this month on one count […]

YORK, Neb. (AP) — A South Dakota newspaper publisher has been hired to lead a Berkshire Hathaway property in Nebraska. Vice President Alex Skovgaard of Berkshire Hathaway Media Midwest Group announced Friday that Steven Baker has been named publisher at the York News-Times. Baker had been publisher of the Capital Journal in Pierre (peer), South […]