August 2015

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge is requiring that two buyers for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. give a deposition next week ahead of an upcoming trademark dispute trial. The four-year-old case pitting Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Inc. against Rushmore Photo and Gifts and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is set to go to trial on Oct. 19. […]

ALEXANDRIA, S.D. (AP) — An Omaha pastor and his wife are among the four people killed in a fiery head-on crash on Interstate 90 near Alexandria. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says a pickup truck heading east in the westbound lanes of I-90 about 4:30 p.m. Thursday struck another vehicle head on, causing both vehicles […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The mother of a girl who was injured when she fell from a parade float during homecoming in 2013 has filed a lawsuit claiming negligence by her daughter’s tribal school, the police and others. In the lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Pierre, Tamaleon Wilcox says her daughter fell […]

CUSTER, S.D. (AP) — A 31-year-old wildland firefighter killed while battling a blaze in Washington state spent five seasons working in South Dakota’s Black Hills. Richard Wheeler and two colleagues were killed Wednesday after their vehicle crashed and was overtaken by flames driven by shifting winds. Jason Virtue in the U.S. Forest Service’s Custer office […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The mother of a girl who was injured after falling off a parade float during homecoming has filed a federal lawsuit against her daughter’s tribal school, a police department and other agencies. Mission resident Tamaleon Wilcox is requesting a federal jury trial after a claim for $3 million was denied by […]

ALEXANDRIA, S.D. (AP) — Four people are now confirmed dead after a fiery head-on crash on Interstate 90 near Alexandria. The Highway Patrol says one of the vehicles involved in the crash about 4:30 p.m. Thursday was going the wrong way on the interstate. Authorities did not immediately determine which vehicle was at fault. The […]

WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge has ordered a suspect in a North Carolina homicide be returned to that state to face prosecution.buy azithromycin online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/languages/new/usa/azithromycin.html no prescription Antonio Currie, of Gibsonville, North Carolina, was arrested in Watertown on May 27, on a first-degree murder warrant issued by police in Wilson, North Carolina. […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — State prison officials say they didn’t know about an inmate’s pleas for help until after he was killed in an apparent assisted suicide. The comments come after a judge criticized the Corrections Department during a Monday sentencing for placing two suicidal inmates in the same cell. Judge Susan Sabers sentenced […]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — A Brookings church is trying to cope with the conviction of a former pastor who sexually abused a girl. Timothy Bariteau, 38, was sentenced this week to eight years in prison for having sexual contact with a child younger than 16 in the spring of 2014 when he was one of […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City police officer was struck in the head by a baseball bat when a suspect threw it at a patrol car. Police say the officer wanted to question the man early Thursday about allegedly trying to use the bat to strike a car stopped at a red light. […]