June 2015

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A former elementary school custodian in Rapid City who pleaded guilty to enticing two teenage girls to email him explicit photographs will serve 20 years in prison. Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler says 30-year-old Casey Godfrey was sentenced this week. He was convicted of Enticement of a Minor Using the […]

SIOUX FALL, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard says it’s up to federal officials to come up with a potential solution for thousands of South Dakotans whose insurance premiums could jump thousands of dollars a year if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act. Daugaard said recently that […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Department of Health is reminding state residents that mosquitoes can transmit the West Nile virus in June, even though it isn’t yet the peak transmission period. The department said Friday that residents should be careful now even though the peak transmission time for the virus is July through […]

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — The University of South Dakota has named the new dean of its School of Education. Donald Easton-Brooks will take over for interim Dean Hee-sook Choi this month. Easton-Brooks spent two years at Eastern Oregon University as a professor and dean of the Colleges of Business and Education. He received his master’s […]

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

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Authorities in Rapid City are investigating what they say is the suspicious death of a 38-year-old man who died Friday morning at an area hospital. Rapid City police say officers responded to a report of an assault on May 27 on the 700 block of East Anamosa Street. Nearby they […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A volunteer firefighter who died fighting a house fire in Brandon that also killed the homeowner had a high blood-alcohol level when he responded to the scene, investigators said Friday. An autopsy determined that Steven Ackerman, 38, had a blood alcohol level of nearly 0.19, more than twice the legal […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A volunteer firefighter who died fighting a house fire in Brandon that also killed the homeowner was legally drunk when he died. Police say 38-year-old Steven Ackerman had a blood alcohol level of nearly 0.19, more than twice the legal limit for driving. The 14-year volunteer with Valley Springs Fire […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota has a new commander. Col. Gentry Boswell took the reins from Col. Kevin Kennedy during a change-of-command ceremony Thursday. Boswell comes from the Pentagon, where he was director of irregular warfare operations. He’s a former vice commander of Ellsworth’s 28th Bomb Wing and […]

KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) — Nearly 200 people become U.S. citizens in a naturalization ceremony at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills. Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken presided over the Thursday ceremony in which 184 people from 49 countries took the oath of allegiance. Hundreds of others watched the proceedings.