August 2015

MILBANK, S.D. (AP) — Police say a 30-year-old man accused of slashing his pregnant girlfriend’s throat in St. Paul has been found in northeastern South Dakota. The St. Paul Pioneer Press ( ) reports Steven Gutierrez was charged Aug. 5 with attempted murder and first-degree assault in the July 31 attack. Boyd VanVooren, the police […]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Center for Enterprise Opportunity at Black Hills State University is hosting this year’s annual Women’s Business Conference in Deadwood. The center said Wednesday that the conference is set to be held in late October. This year’s featured speaker at the conference JJ DiGeronimo, who is president of Purposeful […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Troopers from the South Dakota Highway Patrol are working with the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe again this year to help provide additional law enforcement for the Dakota Nation powwow this weekend. This is the third year the Highway Patrol has been invited by the tribe to work with tribal officers […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 07-14-19-27-31 (seven, fourteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, thirty-one)

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Board of Regents is asking the governor to freeze tuition for in-state college students in the coming year. The regents voted Wednesday to ask Gov. Dennis Daugaard for $4.7 million to prevent the cost of higher education from further shifting onto students. Their hope is that they can […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Board of Regents has approved a request from South Dakota State University to develop plans for an undergraduate agricultural degree that officials say isn’t offered anywhere else in the country. The regents gave SDSU the green light Tuesday to start developing plans for an undergraduate degree in precision […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — An experienced Republican political operative is pushing a ballot measure to expand the rights of crime victims during court proceedings and enshrine those rights in the state Constitution. Jason Glodt is heading a political organization that’s pushing the measure patterned after “Marsy’s Law,” which California voters approved in 2008 after the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Attorney General is reminding the public that state law prohibits gifts or promises in exchange for signing initiative petitions. So far, the Secretary of State’s office has approved five initiated ballot measures and three initiated constitutional amendments for circulation. Attorney General Marty Jackley says under South Dakota […]

SALEM, S.D. (AP) — Attorney General Marty Jackley says a sheriff’s deputy who shot a drunken bar patron in southeastern South Dakota last month was justified in using lethal force. Jackley says the state Division of Criminal Investigation looked into whether McCook County sheriff’s deputy Randy Schwader was justified in shooting Cornelius Milk on July […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Investigations into sex trafficking at this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally resulted in felony charges against men from four states. The investigation was handled by the state Division of Criminal Investigation and the South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Authorities arrested a 44-year-old man from South Dakota, a 35-year-old man […]