July 2015

BALTIC, S.D. (AP) — An 89-year-old man is dead after crashing his vehicle into a bridge pillar that supports a portion of Interstate 29 in southeast South Dakota. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says the Dell Rapids man died Friday afternoon. The agency is withholding the man’s name pending notification of his family. The Highway […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — State officials next week will gather in Rapid City to celebrate the opening of a new district office for the South Dakota Highway Patrol. Gov. Dennis Daugaard, state Highway Patrol officials and others will participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday. They will also take tours of the building. […]

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

EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. (AP) — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe plans to dis-enroll and banish for life anyone convicted of dealing, making or trafficking methamphetamine on the reservation. The Argus Leader reports ( ) the tribal council this week voted unanimously to adopt a resolution in an effort to confront the tribe’s growing meth problem. […]

Editors: Please note that The Associated Press welcomes editorial contributions from members for the weekly Editorial Roundup. Three editorials are selected every week. Contributions can be made by email at [email protected]. ___ Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, July 4, 2015 Still work to be done after same-sex marriage ruling In offering South Dakota’s official reaction to […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal agriculture officials are forecasting South Dakota’s 2015 winter wheat crop to finish with more than a third fewer bushels than last year. Based on July 1 conditions, the National Agricultural Statistics Service says this year’s crop is forecast at 39.4 million bushels. That’s a 13 percent drop from the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Officials at Avera McKennan Hospital say they’ve acquired almost 70 residential properties south of their Sioux Falls campus in case they want to expand further. The hospital purchased 69 residential properties south of the hospital campus between 23rd and 26th Streets and 7th and Cliff Avenues in Sioux Falls. It […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Police in Rapid City are creating a new part-time position to increase cultural understanding between law enforcement and the community. Chief Karl Jegeris announced Friday the creation of a Cultural Advisory Coordinator position. Twenty-nine-year-old Vaughn Vargas has been appointed as the first coordinator. Vargas is a student at the South […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota Hutterite colony and a Montana company are fighting in court after a business partnership to build and market energy-efficient homes ended. Billings, Montana-based ATechBuilder Corp. alleges in a lawsuit that Brentwood Colony and its ProComm Builders company continued to use ATechBuilder’s technology and marketing program after the two […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — In a story July 9 about South Dakota state legislators calling for a special session, The Associated Press misidentified state Rep. Elizabeth May’s hometown. May is from Kyle, not Rapid City. A corrected version of the story is below: Group of legislators calling for special legislative session Group of South […]