July 2015

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they met with the Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent for South Dakota’s Crow Creek Indian Reservation before entering into a plea deal with a man accused of stabbing the official in the back. Brian Iron Boulder pleaded guilty last week to attempting to murder Patrick F. Duffy in […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — Prosecutors are dropping charges against a Columbia-area man accusing of raping a girl over a period of eight years. The American News reports ( ) that a statement from the Brown County State’s Attorney’s Office says the charges are being dismissed in the interest of the victim and that the decision […]

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Stocks of wheat, corn and soybeans all are up in South Dakota. The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that wheat stored in all positions on June 1 totaled 31.6 million bushels, up 45 percent from a year ago. Soybean stocks stood at 24.8 million bushels, up 10 percent […]

GETTYSBURG, S.D. (AP) — No one was hurt when a helicopter that was trying to take off from Bob’s Resort in Gettysburg ended up in a ditch. Potter County Sheriff Curt Hamburger tells KCCR radio that the helicopter clipped a power line, landed and skidded on a highway and came to a stop in the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A workforce development campaign in South Dakota that sells the state as being better than the planet Mars is generating traffic to the state’s workforce website. The focus is a video about Mars. The final graphic reads: “South Dakota. Plenty of jobs. Plenty of air.” Officials say it’s a light-hearted […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota wildlife officials will make available more antelope hunting licenses this year than in 2014. The Capital Journal reports ( ) that the Game, Fish and Parks Commission has decided on a total of 2,495 tags — an increase of 9 percent over last year. Antelope numbers in South Dakota […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected another appeal by an Oklahoma man convicted of hiring a hit man to kill his son-in-law in North Dakota. Gene Kirkpatrick is serving life in prison without parole for paying a man to kill Fargo dentist Philip Gattuso in October 2009 because Kirkpatrick thought […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A woman was injured after an apparent medical problem caused her to crash her sport utility vehicle into the lobby of a Sioux Falls hotel.buy zovirax online https://alvitacare.com/wp-content/languages/new/where/zovirax.html no prescription Police say the driver cut across several lanes of traffic and over a ditch before crashing into the building about […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two South Dakota teachers are among 108 nationwide to be recognized by the Obama administration for their efforts in teaching math and sciences. Lindsey Brewer, a math teacher at Huron High School, and Janet Wagner, a science teacher at Bon Homme School, have received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and […]