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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Stocks of wheat, corn and soybeans all are up in South Dakota. The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that wheat stored in all positions on June 1 totaled 31.6 million bushels, up 45 percent from a year ago. Soybean stocks stood at 24.8 million bushels, up 10 percent […]

GETTYSBURG, S.D. (AP) — No one was hurt when a helicopter that was trying to take off from Bob’s Resort in Gettysburg ended up in a ditch. Potter County Sheriff Curt Hamburger tells KCCR radio that the helicopter clipped a power line, landed and skidded on a highway and came to a stop in the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A workforce development campaign in South Dakota that sells the state as being better than the planet Mars is generating traffic to the state’s workforce website. The focus is a video about Mars. The final graphic reads: “South Dakota. Plenty of jobs. Plenty of air.” Officials say it’s a light-hearted […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota wildlife officials will make available more antelope hunting licenses this year than in 2014. The Capital Journal reports ( ) that the Game, Fish and Parks Commission has decided on a total of 2,495 tags — an increase of 9 percent over last year. Antelope numbers in South Dakota […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected another appeal by an Oklahoma man convicted of hiring a hit man to kill his son-in-law in North Dakota. Gene Kirkpatrick is serving life in prison without parole for paying a man to kill Fargo dentist Philip Gattuso in October 2009 because Kirkpatrick thought […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A woman was injured after an apparent medical problem caused her to crash her sport utility vehicle into the lobby of a Sioux Falls hotel.buy zovirax online https://alvitacare.com/wp-content/languages/new/where/zovirax.html no prescription Police say the driver cut across several lanes of traffic and over a ditch before crashing into the building about […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two South Dakota teachers are among 108 nationwide to be recognized by the Obama administration for their efforts in teaching math and sciences. Lindsey Brewer, a math teacher at Huron High School, and Janet Wagner, a science teacher at Bon Homme School, have received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota is joining a national anti-terrorism effort and officials at the state’s Homeland Security Office are encouraging citizens to report suspicious activity. The state is taking part in the national “See Something, Say Something” campaign, which was originally implemented by the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority. State Homeland […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 04-05-13-18-25 (four, five, thirteen, eighteen, twenty-five)