August 2015

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Fire prompted the evacuation of an aluminum products business in Yankton, but no one was hurt. Deputy Fire Chief Larry Nickles tells the Daily Press & Dakotan ( ) that the Monday afternoon fire started in a paint room at Sapa Extrusions. The cause was not immediately determined. A damage estimate […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — Aberdeen police are looking for the person who stole a car from a funeral home and crashed it into the mortuary building. The American News reports ( ) that the incident at Schriver’s Memorial Mortuary happened Sunday afternoon. Police Capt. Jay Tobin says authorities are treating it as a burglary, and […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s office is looking for candidates to fill the state House of Representatives seat being vacated by Rep. Steve Hickey. The governor’s office said Monday that he anticipates naming an appointee in the fall. Hickey is leaving the Legislature move to Scotland and study Christian ethics in the modern […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — One of four people who authorities say broke into a Todd County government building in Mission last fall has been sentenced to nearly a year in prison. Authorities say 19-year-old Preston White Feather, of Mission, along with a woman and two juveniles broke into the building last August and stole property, […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A Fort Thompson man has been sentenced for sexually abusing a child after a birthday party. Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says 22-year-old Dillon Bagola was giving the girl a ride home after a party last August when he pulled over and forced her to engage in a sex act. Bagola […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s two Republican U.S. senators are criticizing the Obama administration’s plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because they say it will hurt jobs and increase electricity rates. U.S. Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds said Monday the reductions would also threaten grid reliability. The Environmental Protection Agency […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Mark Mickelsen is taking over as executive director of the South Dakota Education Association. Mickelsen worked for the group in an interim capacity in the last year.buy furosemide online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/languages/new/online/furosemide.html no prescription He manages a staff of 15 employees with offices in Pierre, Rapid City and Sioux Falls. Prior to joining […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota farmers are making progress in harvesting wheat. The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the spring wheat harvest was 24 percent complete, compared to 2 percent the week before. The long-term average at this point is 30 percent. Winter wheat harvested was at 76 percent, […]

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol says six people have died on the roads in connection with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in western South Dakota. The patrol says four people were killed in separate accidents Sunday and early Monday. Dead are 49-year-old Rhonda Denato, of Ottumwa, Iowa; 73-year-old Archie Smith, of Kansas […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota board is withholding $259,000 from a Maryland vendor after problems with a new 911 system. The Rapid City Journal reports ( ) South Dakota’s 911 Coordination Board is withholding payment of a monthly invoice to TeleCommunication Systems Inc., which didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. […]