July 2015

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota has a new poet laureate. Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed Lee Ann Roripaugh of Vermillion to succeed David Allan Evans, who is retiring as South Dakota’s poet laureate after serving more than a dozen years. Roripaugh will serve a four-year term. Roripaugh is the author of four volumes of […]

The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same methodology as the national survey to consult supply managers and business leaders. Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss oversees the report. The overall index ranges between […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Data from a June survey echo previous signs that slower economic growth likely lays ahead for nine Midwestern and Plains states, according to a report released Wednesday. The report said the overall Mid-America Business Conditions Index rose to 53.0 last month from 50.4 in May. “Much weaker business conditions for firms […]

HURON, S.D. (AP) — A Huron man is accused of brandishing a gun in an alleged case of road rage in the city. Richard Rathjen tells The Associated Press that it was a case of self-defense. Rathjen allegedly got into an altercation with another person after a traffic incident Monday, then followed that person to […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota farmers this year have planted more wheat but less corn and soybeans. The Agriculture Department says in its annual acreage report that spring wheat, winter wheat and durum wheat acres all are up this year in South Dakota, while soybean acres are down 1 percent and corn acres […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man was killed while working at an asphalt production plant in central South Dakota. Sully County Sherriff Bill Stahl tells KCCR radio that 66-year-old Jerold Walth of Wishek, North Dakota, was performing maintenance on equipment at the asphalt plant Monday evening when he got caught up in a […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A man accused of stabbing the Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent on South Dakota’s Crow Creek Indian Reservation has pleaded guilty to attempted murder under a deal with prosecutors. In return for Brian Iron Boulder’s guilty plea last week, federal prosecutors have dropped assault charges. Iron Boulder could have faced 50 […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A report on a June survey underscores previous survey signs that slower economic growth likely is ahead for nine Midwestern and Plains states. The survey report issued Wednesday says the overall Mid-America Business Conditions Index rose to 53.0 from 50.4 in May and 52.7 in April. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — City parks in Pierre and the back nine holes at a local golf course are reopening in time for the July Fourth weekend, after more than a week of cleanup following a severe storm. The parks and portions of Hillsview Golf Course have been closed since June 22. Storms that day […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A federal prosecutor says a temporary court is being set up at a counterculture gathering in the Black Hills so attendees with tickets can take care of them quickly. A summer gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light begins Wednesday in western South Dakota and continues through July 7. […]