June 2015

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two people are in custody after a police chase that began in Sioux Falls and ended with a crash in a rural area near Baltic. Police say a van that was driving fast and erratically nearly collided with a police vehicle in Sioux Falls on Thursday night, then appeared to […]

KYLE, S.D. (AP) — Federal authorities are accusing a Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident of setting on a fire a friend’s home in April. A grand jury in western South Dakota has indicted Danny Ferguson, of Kyle, on an arson charge. Ferguson is expected to appear in court for the first time Friday in Rapid […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a woman they say helped the man convicted last month in North Dakota of running a Jamaica-based scam that bilked mostly elderly people around the country out of millions. Melinda Bulgin was apprehended Tuesday in Rhode island, and charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and […]

ABERDEEN, N.D. (AP) — Two century-old agriculture cooperatives based in the Dakotas will not merge this summer after a slim majority of members in one organization voted against unification. The South Dakota Wheat Growers and North Central Farmers Elevator have been planning to join and become CentraGro Cooperatives. The American News in Aberdeen reports 61 […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Several people in Rapid City who are in the state for a proposed counterculture gathering are facing drug-related charges. The Rapid City Journal reports ( ) police found two ounces of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and marijuana wax in a car with five people in it on Wednesday. All five are […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The economy has improved slightly in rural parts of 10 Western and Plains states, but a new survey suggests little growth ahead. The overall Rural Mainstreet index improved to the neutral score of 50 in June from last month’s 49. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the strong dollar is continuing […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Federal authorities based in North Dakota continue to pursue suspects in a wide-ranging Jamaican lottery scam that has bilked mostly elderly residents from around the country out of their savings accounts. The latest arrest came Tuesday in Providence, Rhode Island, when Melinda Bulgin was apprehended. She faces several charges, including mail […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a more than 42-year prison sentence for a woman who ran over a Highway Patrol Trooper in Sioux Falls while driving drunk. Twenty-six-year-old Rachel Coleman had argued that her sentence of 42 ½ years for running over Trooper Andrew Steen violated her constitutional […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The city of Sioux Falls is suing a local development group for nearly $279,000 in utility costs. The city maintains that developers of the Arbor’s Edge residential neighborhood near Willow Run Golf Course owe the city for sanitary sewer work. Attorney Brian Bauer formerly represented Arbor’s Edge and is mentioned […]

ONIDA, S.D. (AP) — A company planning an ethanol plant in Sully County has purchased land in the wake of a public vote that affirmed a zoning change approved by county commissioners. Ring Neck Energy and Feed CEO Walt Wendland tells KCCR radio that the company bought the land from Oahe Grain of Onida, and […]