July 2015

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

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Republican legislative leader says that state Rep. Tim Rounds is recovering in the hospital after suffering from a stroke. House Majority Leader Brian Gosch said Tuesday that the Pierre Republican could be released from a Sioux Falls hospital this weekend. Gosch, who visited Rounds in the hospital last week, […]

FREEMAN, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a 41-year-old man suffered serious injuries Tuesday after leading law enforcement on a drunken high-speed chase that spanned three counties and reached speeds of up to 110 mph. State Highway Patrol Trooper Mark Nelson tells the Daily Republic ( ) that he chased the man driving a stolen SUV […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Farmers Union has proposed amending the state constitution so that a commission redraws the state’s legislative districts every 10 years instead of lawmakers. Attorney General Marty Jackley announced the proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday and explained its impact. Currently, the Legislature must redraw the boundaries of legislative districts every […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say the man suspected of robbing a bank in a St. Paul suburb last week is an inmate who escaped from prison the night before in South Dakota. Roseville police say Clint Eldeen walked into Bremer Bank on Saturday morning and demanded money from a teller, implying he had […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state Highway Patrol says troopers arrested 55 people for DUI during 94 sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols held across South Dakota in June. The patrol holds sobriety checkpoints in a select number of counties each month. The saturation patrols are designed to place more troopers in a particular area at […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Gettysburg Police Department says it doesn’t intend to change a logo that includes the Confederate flag despite a Flandreau man’s calls for the insignia to be altered. Chief Bill Wainman said Tuesday the police patch is a tribute to the history of the town, which was settled by Civil […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The prayer circles are over, the cleanup has started, and the forest appears in good hands. The fear that thousands of members of the Rainbow Family may be leaving an irreversible scar on the Black Hills no longer seems a concern for the U.S. Forest Service. Only 1,700 people attended […]

FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — A two-vehicle crash in Moody County killed two people including a child and sent three other children to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The Highway Patrol says 38-year-old Joshua Krempges, of Flandreau, was driving a car that failed to yield at a rural intersection southeast of Flandreau and collided with a […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The winter wheat harvest is underway in South Dakota. The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that 10 percent of the winter wheat in the state has been combined, ahead of zero percent last year at the same time but behind the long-term average of 15 percent. The […]