July 2015

RUTLAND, S.D. (AP) — People in the Rutland school district have approved a $250,000, three-year opt out of the state-imposed property tax freeze. The school board in March approved a $450,000, five-year opt out, but the decision was referred to a public vote and defeated in May. The school board then proposed the smaller opt […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security prison in South Dakota might have robbed three banks in Minnesota. Clint Eldeen was last seen leaving the minimum-security unit of the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls on Friday night. He’s been named as a suspect in the robbery of […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security prison in South Dakota might have robbed three banks in Minnesota. Clint Eldeen was last seen leaving the minimum-security unit of the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls on Friday night. He’s been named as a suspect in the robbery of […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A general surgeon from South Dakota who is now working in North Dakota is accused of sexually abusing a girl under 14 in Oregon over a two-year period starting in 2009. The Daily Astorian reports ( ) that 46-year-old Robert J. Gustafson on Monday pleaded not guilty in Oregon’s Clatsop County […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A brief but intense hailstorm that dropped as much as 4 inches of slippery pellets in a South Dakota city prompted officials to call out snowplows in the middle of summer. Pennington County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Jackson tells the Rapid City Journal ( ) that the Tuesday night incident on […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls City Council decision to rename a stretch of state Highway 11 “Veterans Parkway” over the objections of history buffs will stand. Councilman Greg Jamison on Tuesday asked his colleagues to reconsider last week’s decision. Jamison had voted in favor of the change from Powder House Road but […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A brief but intense hailstorm that dropped as much as 4 inches of slippery pellets on U.S. Highway 16 south of Rapid City prompted officials to call out snowplows in the middle of summer. Pennington County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Jackson tells the Rapid City Journal ( ) that the Tuesday […]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — A collision involving a motorcycle and a car at a Spearfish area intersection killed the driver of the motorcycle and injured a passenger. The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says 46-year-old Robert Borbely, of Belle Fourche, died in the crash Monday afternoon. Forty-year-old passenger Kimberly Borbely was flown to a Rapid City […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — A man accused of murdering his uncle in Yankton last year has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a deal with prosecutors. Joshua Hudson is accused of using a hammer to kill 46-year-old Todd Hudson in March 2014. He had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in April to charges including […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A man serving a sentenced for a federal conviction is now facing an escape charge after abandoning a work site in South Dakota and taking off his GPS unit. Federal court records show Timothy Cadotte has pleaded not guilty to one count of escape. He was sentenced in April 2014 […]