September 2015
Dakota Days 2015- Wednesday
Today, students and community members had a chance to take part in Vermtown Bash and a street dance. View the volanteonline.com for all your coverage for D-Days. Producer: Krystal Schoenbauer Videographer: Monica Smithwick
Sobriety Checkpoints Planned In 16 Counties In October
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol says it is targeting 16 counties with sobriety checkpoints in October.buy lexapro online https://mannadew.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/uk/lexapro.html no prescription The monthly checkpoints are conducted to discourage people from drinking and driving. The counties scheduled for sobriety checkpoints in October are: Bennett, Brown, Butte, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Edmunds, Gregory, […]
Latest: Man Identifies Son As South Dakota School Shooter
HARRISBURG, S.D. (AP) — The latest developments in a South Dakota school shooting that injured a high school principal. All times local: 4 p.m. A South Dakota man says his 16-year-old son is the student who shot a high school principal Wednesday. The man says his ex-wife called to tell him their son had been […]
UPDATED: Two USD students are victims of reported sexual assaults
[button link=”https://volanteonline.com/2015/10/upd-urges-students-mindful-safety-d-days/” color=”black” icon=”” size=”medium”]MORE: UPD urges students to be mindful of safety during D-Days[/button] UPDATE: 12:34 p.m. – The two victims of two reported sexual assaults in Vermillion are USD students. Vermillion Police Department Captain Chad Passick said both victims are female and both are of age. The assaults happened hours apart, one in […]
Latest: Officials Say Assistant Principal Tackled Shooter
HARRISBURG, S.D. (AP) — The latest developments in a South Dakota school shooting that injured a high school principal. All times local: 12:55 p.m. Authorities say a shooting at a South Dakota high school may have turned out far worse if not for the intervention of an assistant principal. The shooting at Harrisburg High School […]
Latest: Student: Principal Addressed School After Being Shot
HARRISBURG, S.D. (AP) — The latest developments in a South Dakota school shooting that injured a high school principal. All times local: 12:40 p.m. A senior student at a South Dakota high school says her principal came onto the intercom to speak to the schools minutes after he was shot by a student. Eighteen-year-old Aanna […]
Hearing On Dakota Access Pipeline Begins In South Dakota
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota opponents of a proposed $3.8 billion pipeline to move North Dakota oil east say they worry it could contaminate water supplies and productive farmland and harm habitat for wildlife, including endangered species. South Dakota’s Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday began a two-week hearing on whether to permit the Dakota […]
Yankton County Voters Reject Tax Increase For Roads, Bridges
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Voters in Yankton County have resoundingly defeated a proposed property tax increase to help fund road and bridge repairs. The Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan reports ( ) that preliminary results from Tuesday’s election show 70 percent of the 3,427 voters opposed the measure. The levy would have hiked taxes on […]
Rapid City Man Pleads Guilty In Lake Crash That Killed Woman
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City man involved in a fatal crash on Lake Pactola has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and boating under the influence. Authorities say 29-year-old Jody Kreycik was drunk when his personal watercraft collided with a boat on Aug. 14. The crash killed 33-year-old Gabrielle Fisher, one of two people […]
SD Officials, Inmates Group Adjust Ceremonial Tobacco Policy
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Attorneys for the South Dakota Department of Corrections and an organization of Native American inmates have agreed to some policy changes making it easier to get tobacco into the state penitentiary for inmates practicing Lakota religious ceremonies. U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier ruled in 2012 that the prison system’s ban […]