June 2015

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The annual report of the office of the U.S. Attorney in South Dakota shows that the top federal prosecutor in the state filed 450 cases last year, half of which involved violent crimes in Indian Country.buy flagyl online https://pharmacohealthcare.com/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/engl/flagyl.html no prescription Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler announced the release of […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s youngest workers won’t see a drop in their minimum wage to $7.50 per hour this week as the state’s voters will be able to decide the law’s fate in the 2016 elections. The secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday activists working to defeat the law secured enough valid signatures […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A judge in western South Dakota has set a $5 million bond for a man facing murder and other charges in an infant’s death. The bond for 26-year-old Kristopher Houchin was set Tuesday. The Rapid City man has been charged with second-degree murder, first-degree rape and child abuse. Houchin was […]

ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AP) — A Virginia-based in-home health care company has signed a lease for space at Ellsworth Air Force Base in western South Dakota. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development says Advance Health will open its third location in the nation at the base. The company is the first one in […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Ranchers and landowners in South Dakota and North Dakota who sought more than $50 million from the U.S. government for an out-of-control prescribed burn that torched over 16,000 acres will not be compensated, according to a letter written by the federal agriculture secretary. The U.S. Department of Agriculture determined the […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A rodeo for 4-H members scheduled for this weekend in northeastern South Dakota is in jeopardy because organizers have not submitted proof of insurance to local officials. The Aberdeen American News ( ) reports Brown County commissioners on Tuesday threated to deny a lease allowing the Hub Area 4-H Rodeo to […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Ranchers and landowners filed more than $50 million in damage claims over a prescribed burn that veered out of control and burned 16,000 acres in North Dakota and South Dakota. That’s according to a letter from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in which he denies the claims. The Associated Press obtained […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A haze is blanketing much of the Midwest as strong winds carry smoke from forest fires in Canada thousands of miles to the south. National Weather Service forecasters say Tuesday that smoke from wildfires in northern Saskatchewan is blowing as far south as Tennessee. A thick band of smoke extends […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s congressional delegation says all residents in South Dakota and North Dakota seeking damages from the federal government for a 2013 wildfire will be denied. The delegation says the U.S. Department of Agriculture has refused to find that U.S. Forest Service employees were negligent when they started a controlled […]

HARTINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A 68-year-old Nebraska woman has died after a collision of two boats below Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says the accident occurred about 9:55 a.m. Monday in the tail waters east of the dam. The dam sits on the Missouri River between South […]