June 2015

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A counselor who charged the state of South Dakota nearly $28,000 for sessions that didn’t happen has been sentenced to three months in jail for fraud. The Argus Leader reports ( ) that 42-year-old Shawn Nills was sentenced Thursday.buy amitriptyline online https://www.epsa-online.org/wp-content/languages/new/prescription/amitriptyline.html no prescription Nills received a five-year prison sentence, […]

KYLE, S.D. (AP) — Oglala Lakota College in western South Dakota has received a grant of $25,000 from a Native American tribe in Minnesota to help fund the school’s Lakota language immersion program. President Thomas Shortbull says the funding from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community will help the college operate its Lakota Woglaka Wounspe immersion […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls woman who saved a hurt driver from a semi-truck that had burst into flames has gotten high praise from the South Dakota Highway Patrol. Highway Patrol Superintendent Craig Price on Thursday presented Sarah Edison with the highest civilian award the patrol gives. Edison, 24, was driving east […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Rapid City police have arrested a 27-year-old woman they say stabbed a man Thursday. Police took the Rapid City woman into custody after they found the 25-year-old victim under the East Boulevard bridge. She’s facing a charge of aggravated assault. The victim was transported to Rapid City Regional Hospital for […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Board of Regents has approved four new minor degrees and a graduate certificate at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The board Thursday approved new minors in global engineering, computational statistics, environmental science and military science. The regents also approved a new graduate certificate in […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls man with a history of violence has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for allegedly punching a woman in the face during a home invasion. Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Aaron McGowan says 35-year-old Nathan Wright was sentenced to 40 years in prison with 20 years suspended. […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A former inmate whose conviction in a fatal crash on Interstate 90 was overturned in 2013 has filed a $20 million lawsuit against a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper and his supervisor, the state and others. Oakley Engesser claims in his federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Rapid City, that the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police have been riding the rails to catch drivers who ignore railroad crossing stop signals. Police spokesman Sam Clemens tells the Argus Leader ( ) that it was done after complaints from BNSF. The railroad told police were too many near-misses with vehicles crossing the tracks in front […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has affirmed that blood evidence collected from a man who was arrested for driving under the influence should be suppressed because the man didn’t understand his rights. The high court in an opinion released Thursday shot down the state’s appeal. A Rapid City officer arrested Eric Medicine […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Belle Fourche man whose conviction for a fatal crash on Interstate 90 was overturned has filed a $20 million lawsuit against a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper and his supervisor, the state and others. Oakley Engesser was convicted of vehicular homicide and vehicular battery for the 2000 crash on […]