August 2015

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Public safety officials say a fire at the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Mitchell has been ruled accidental and is not suspicious. Mitchell’s Department of Public Safety says the blaze that started about 2 a.m. Tuesday originated near an ice maker. No injuries were reported. Firefighters had the blaze contained about 5:30 […]

LEAD, S.D. (AP) — A judge is western South Dakota has ordered that the suspect in a Monday evening slaying be held without bond. Lawrence County Magistrate Eric Strawn on Tuesday denied bond for 44-year-old James L. Rogers Jr., who is facing a first-degree murder charge. Police in Lead arrested Rogers in connection with the […]

SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) — A major piece of a western Nebraska town’s history will be commemorated when a wagon train retraces the Sidney to Deadwood, South Dakota, Trail. More than 25 wagons and 150 trailblazers already have signed up to retrace a portion of the trail, from Ardmore, South Dakota, to Deadwood over nine days […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Law enforcement authorities in western South Dakota say a Good Samaritan rescued a 1-year-old baby who fell into a creek as the child’s caretaker lay unconscious nearby. KOTA-TV on Tuesday reported the rescue happened around 8 p.m. Monday at Rapid Creek. The Rapid City Police Department says the person who […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has ordered a hearing on an effort to block a new rule that gives federal authorities jurisdiction over some state waters. Thirteen states led by North Dakota are challenging the rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers. The states […]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Weather conditions Tuesday have forced the organizers of Mitchell’s annual farm show Dakotafest to cancel the event’s opening day. Samantha Castro is a marketing manager with the organizer IdeaAg Group. She tells The Daily Republic ( ) that the threat of severe weather, including the possibility of lightning, led to the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard is appointing Sioux Falls attorney Jon Sogn (sawng) to the bench in South Dakota’s Second Judicial Circuit. Sogn will fill a new judgeship created by the 2015 Legislature. The Second Circuit includes Lincoln and Minnehaha counties. Sogn has practiced with the law firm of Lynn, Jackson, Shultz and […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The winter wheat harvest is nearing completion in South Dakota, after a week of varied rainfall in the state. The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the northwest, north central and eastern portions of the state received rain but the southwest remains dry. The winter wheat harvest […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials say the slowdown in North Dakota’s oil patch should help keep fuel supplies adequate for the state’s fall crop harvest. The harvest often spurs diesel shortages for farm machinery in the Upper Midwest. In North Dakota, the problem has been magnified in recent years because of the oil drilling activity […]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — No injuries have been reported in a fire at the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Mitchell. Police say the blaze started about 2 a.m. Tuesday. The cause wasn’t immediately determined. Authorities don’t believe anyone was inside the building at the time. Firefighters had the blaze contained about 5:30 a.m., though crews remained […]