July 2015

FORT YATES, N.D. (AP) — Funeral arrangements are pending for a Standing Rock Indian Reservation man who family members say died in a fireworks accident. Family members tell The Bismarck Tribune ( ) that 31-year-old Preston Village Center died on the Fourth of July after he was struck in the stomach by artillery shell-style fireworks. […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The City Council in Rapid City has denied a couple’s appeal to keep two pygmy fainting goats as therapy animals. KEVN-TV and KOTA-TV report the City Council voted Monday against keeping the goats in city limits. Justina and Scot Glassgow have had the goats named Athena and Venus at their […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is meeting to discuss problems in South Dakota’s education system. The task force is set to meet on Tuesday in Pierre, beginning with a welcome from Gov. Dennis Daugaard. Daugaard and Republican legislative leaders in February announced the creation of the […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction’s second Indian Education Summit is slated at the state Capitol in Bismarck. The two-day event begins Tuesday. Superintendent Kirsten Baesler says the summit will feature students from a Lakota language immersion class and keynote speeches from top federal Indian education officials. A group of […]

EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a man on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Federal authorities are accusing Corbyn Big Eagle, of Eagle Butte, of stabbing Austin Miner on June 16. Federal court records show tribal officers found Miner lying on […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission is hearing from the public about the Keystone XL oil pipeline project. The hearing at the state Capitol in Pierre on Monday is expected to last three hours. PUC Chairman Chris Nelson says the input will help the panel formulate questions during the pipeline project […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a female prisoner who was found unconscious and not breathing in a Brown County holding cell died at a local hospital. The Aberdeen American News reports ( ) 24-year-old Sarah Lee Circle Bear died Sunday, the same day she was found unconscious in her cell. Brown County coroner Mike […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol is offering a $3,000 bonus to current certified law enforcement officers who choose to become troopers. The Highway Patrol is in the process of adding troopers to its force and is hoping the bonus attracts current officers from in and outside South Dakota. Those who […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A woman who started the South Dakota custom of bringing Christmas trees to the state Capitol in Pierre has died. The Isburg Funeral Chapel says Dorothy “Dottie” Howe died Friday at her home in Pierre. She was 86. In 2013, Howe told the Capital Journal ( ) that the Christmas tree […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission plans to hold a public hearing Monday on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would run through the state on its way to the Gulf Coast. The hearing is slated for 5:30 p.m. at the state Capitol in Pierre for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL project, […]