June 2015

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A week of warm weather has boosted newly planted crops across South Dakota. The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the state saw its warmest temperatures of the season over the past week — from 2-8 degrees above average. About 68 percent of the soybean crop is […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls man is hospitalized with what police say are life-threatening injuries after apparently being run over by a vehicle following a fight. Officers who responded to a report of a fight shortly after midnight Monday found the 34-year-old man lying in the middle of a street, after apparently […]

ONIDA, S.D. (AP) — Sully County voters have backed a zoning change approved by county commissioners that paves the way for an ethanol plant. About 79 percent of the 672 people who voted in Tuesday’s election approved the commission’s decision to rezone a parcel of land just south of Onida. Oahe Grain of Onida is […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Rapid City police are searching for a man who robbed a convenience store early Tuesday. Authorities say a man using a T-shirt as a mask walked into the Loaf ‘N Jug store just after midnight Monday, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded cash. Police believe the weapon was […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a man has drowned at a marina in southeastern South Dakota after he fell in the water. The Yankton County Sheriff’s Office says a call came in around 10 p.m. Tuesday that a man had fallen in the water at a dock at Lewis and Clark Marina west of […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has approved a utility company’s first natural gas rate increase in 11 years and its first electric rate hike in two decades. The regulatory commission agreed to the increases, which were negotiated down from what MidAmerican Energy originally requested, at a meeting Tuesday in Pierre. […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — These South Dakota lotteries were drawn Tuesday:

FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — An Indian tribe in eastern South Dakota plans to start selling marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes by Jan. 1, becoming the first tribe in the state to legalize the sale of cannabis across its whole territory. Leaders of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe said Tuesday that marijuana will be cultivated […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Box Elder woman accused of murdering her boyfriend last year has been cleared of all charges after a video showed she was terrorized by the man prior to shooting him. Pennington County State’s Attorney Mark Vargo announced Tuesday that 24-year-old Kelly Croyle was cleared of her second-degree murder charge […]

DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — Deadwood officials are pushing to ban dangerous animals a month after state regulators ruled a Minnesota woman could house wolf pups at a wildlife education center in the town. Commissioner David Ruth says officials recently revisited the city’s rules governing dangerous animals and decided that their ordinances needed to be updated […]