August 5, 2015

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — After nine days, the state Public Utilities Commission has finished hearing from opposing sides in the debate over whether to allow the Keystone XL oil pipeline to run through South Dakota.buy acyclovir online https://taxmama.com/wp-content/forum/styles/new/engl/acyclovir.html no prescription The commission is considering whether to approve for the second time in just over five […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed a new circuit court judge to fill a new judgeship created by the state Legislature this year. Daugaard says Magistrate Judge Matthew Brown, of Custer, will preside as a circuit court judge in South Dakota’s Seventh Circuit Court. The seventh circuit includes Custer, Fall River, Oglala […]

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol says authorities have seized over $10,000 more in cash this year compared to last year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The Department of Public said Wednesday that authorities in western South Dakota have seized over $17,600 in cash since July 28, the majority of which was in Sturgis. […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A plea agreement has been reached in the killing of a woman on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Thirty-year-old Lance Summers pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in the death last year of 38-year-old Natalie White Lightening of Cannon Ball. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison but […]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — A weekend traffic stop on Interstate 90 in western South Dakota yielded 6 pounds of heroin. Lawrence County State’s Attorney John Fitzgerald tells the Black Hills Pioneer ( ) that a Highway Patrol officer stopped the vehicle from Washington state on Saturday near Spearfish. Authorities are pursuing drug charges against two […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The second-longest serving police chief in Sioux Falls history has announced he is retiring from his position. Chief Doug Barthel announced Wednesday at a press conference that he will step down in October to take a position with Sanford Health. Barthel began with the department in 1986 and was named […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Minnehaha County commissioners have decided to use more than $109,000 in federal election money to buy a third digital vote tabulator. The Argus Leader reports ( ) that the additional machine meets a recommendation from an election review committee. The group formed after it took county election officials 14 hours […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City man accused of killing a 6-month-old girl has pleaded not guilty. Twenty-six-year-old Kristopher Houchin faces a second-degree murder charge in the June 26 death of L’Naya White. Preliminary autopsy results indicated she died from brain bleeding as a result of blunt force trauma. Police say Houchin was […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A memorial service and funeral have been scheduled in South Dakota for a Rapid City firefighter who died on the job in California. Thirty-eight-year-old David Ruhl was on temporary assignment with the Big Valley Ranger District of the Modoc National Forest. He went missing Thursday in hazardous fire conditions and […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Investigators believe a fire at an aluminum products business in Yankton started when static electricity ignited a solvent being used to clean a paint gun. The Monday afternoon fire prompted the evacuation of Sapa Extrusions. No one was hurt. Plant Manager Kevin Perakslis tells the Daily Press & Dakotan ( ) […]