July 2015

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say charges are pending in a rollover crash that killed a Spearfish woman. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says 29-year-old Megan Kellogg was a passenger in a Jeep that rolled over on a gravel road five miles northwest of Spearfish just before 3 p.m. Saturday. The Jeep left the road, […]

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) — Get your telescopes ready. The Badlands National Park is again hosting its Astronomy Festival in which novices and experts alike can participate. The event scheduled for July 17 through 19 will include public stargazing activities, solar observing opportunities, planetarium shows, several workshops, as well as equipment demonstrations. Organizers have […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — An annual report from the Aberdeen Police Department shows officers responded to 35 percent more mental health calls in 2014 compared to the previous year. The Aberdeen American News ( ) reports the department responded to 278 mental health calls last year, up from 206 calls in 2013. Officers went to […]

WALL, S.D. (AP) — Rural libraries in western South Dakota’s Pennington County could see a major cut to their funding. County Auditor Julie Pearson tells the Rapid City Journal ( ) that county library services have had a yearly deficit as high as $40,000. She says the deficit has been made up through library cash […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A harpsichord that entertained the elites of Italy in the mid-1500s has been restored by a South Dakota museum and will soon bring its sound to 21st-century ears. The National Music Museum in Vermilion, which acquired the instrument in 2009, worked with Chilean-born musician Catalina Vicens, who specializes historical keyboards […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota State Historical Society has a new book out and it focuses on the only Native American leader who defeated the U.S. Army in a war. The biography of Red Cloud examines the Oglala leader’s rise to prominence, his struggle against cultural domination and the victory that closed the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Al and Brenda Lewis’ home contains enough books to fill a library. That’s not an exaggeration. The average branch library in Sioux Falls displays 30,000 to 35,000 items on the shelves at any one time, said library director Mary Johns, and that’s everything from children’s picture books to dictionaries. The […]

WEBSTER, S.D. (AP) — After walking out of Perfect Pickins Boutique & Bistro on a recent summer day, California resident Katrina Eszlinger surveyed the town in which her grandmother grew up. “I’ll definitely be living in South Dakota sometime soon,” said the 20-year-old. “People are so friendly here. I think I’ll either be in Webster […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 07-19-22-33-34 (seven, nineteen, twenty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four)

ARLINGTON, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a 71-year-old woman from eastern South Dakota who crashed her car Friday night died because of a medical issue and not the crash itself. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says Arlington resident Barbara Hudy was driving a 2000 Dodge Stratus near the intersection of U.S. Highway 81 and Main […]