July 2015

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A concert planned by a 9-year-old terminally ill girl in South Dakota will allow her to fulfill her wish of helping other children. The Argus Leader reports ( ) the event planned by Rebekah Spader, of Sioux Falls, raised enough funds Saturday to help at least one ill child. Rebekah […]

HURON, S.D. (AP) — Several ag specialists from across the state will be offering an environmental training session for operators of concentrated animal feeding operations. The training session scheduled for Aug. 19 at the Crossroads Convention Center in Huron fulfills the environmental and manure-management training requirement to obtain a livestock permit for CAFOs from the […]

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Contrary to popular belief, poetry does not just involve rhyming words. Lee Ann Roripaugh, South Dakota’s new poet laureate, would be the first to say so. “I typically write in free verse,” Roripaugh explained. “I sometimes do contemporary versions of traditional Japanese. I like the form to fit or grasp the […]

WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — Rick Snyder of rural Fairmount, North Dakota, is a man who refused to be stalled by the word “no.” He heard “no” for almost three years as he sought to restore historical quartzite boundary markers that line the North Dakota-South Dakota border. The markers have stood for more than 100 years […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 06-10-14-28-31 (six, ten, fourteen, twenty-eight, thirty-one)

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A 29-year-old man has been selected to lead the new effort by the Rapid City Police Department to increase cultural understanding between law enforcement and the community. Rapid City Police Chief Karl Jegeris has selected Vaughn Vargas to be the department’s first cultural advisory coordinator. Vargas is a member of […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A 14-year-old South Dakota girl who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes seven years ago will represent the state at the Children’s Congress in Washington, D.C., this year. The Argus Leader ( ) reports that Maddie McElroy, of Sioux Falls, will be attending the event later this month. The Juvenile […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A boating shack housing at least $20,000 worth of boating equipment owned by the state Game, Fish and Parks Department burned down in Sioux Falls. The shack of the Outdoor Campus caught on fire around 4 a.m. Saturday. Two police officers at a nearby gas station saw the smoke and […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota prison inmate at a minimum-security unit in Sioux Falls has been placed on “escape” status. The South Dakota Department of Corrections says inmate Clint Eldeen was last seen leaving the minimum-security unit at the State Penitentiary at 6:45 p.m. Friday. The 46-year-old Eldeen is serving two sentences […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Animal control authorities in southeast South Dakota have seized three rattlesnakes after one of the reptiles bit a 19-year-old who kept them as pets. The animal control officers with the Sioux Falls Police Department say the man was bitten Friday. Officers became aware of the poisonous snake bite after the […]