September 28, 2015

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota may join 30 other states in expanding its Medicaid program if federal officials approve a plan Gov. Dennis Daugaard is set to outline to the nation’s top health and human services administrator in Washington on Tuesday. The Republican governor is meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell […]

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. (AP) — The Eighth Air Force, headquartered at Louisiana’s Barksdale Air Force Base 40 years now, will see an increase in assets and capabilities in the coming days. The force that now commands all of the Air Force’s nuclear-capable bombers will draw into its fold the nation’s two B-1 bomber […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A state prison inmate who escaped from a minimum-security prison in Rapid City in early August is back in custody. The South Dakota Department of Corrections says 31-year-old Raymond Freeman was arrested Monday in Rapid City. Freeman was placed on escape status Aug. 1 after he failed to return to […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota may join about 30 states in expanding its Medicaid program if federal officials approve a plan Gov. Dennis Daugaard is discussing with the nation’s top health and human services administrator. Daugaard is scheduled to meet Tuesday in Washington with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to detail the […]

DENVER (AP) — A lawyer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told an appeals court Monday that a federal judge in Utah went too far when when he struck down protections for a kind of prairie dog found only in that state. Attorney Anna Katselas asked the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]