PIERRE, S.D. (AP) _ These South Dakota lotteries were drawn Friday: 08-09-21-63-75, Mega Ball: 14, Megaplier: 4 (eight, nine, twenty-one, sixty-three, seventy-five; Mega Ball: fourteen; Megaplier: four) Estimated jackpot: $60 million

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is overstepping its authority and endangering an industry by proposing extensive new standards to protect groundwater from uranium mining, said a U.S. senator from Wyoming, the top uranium-mining state. The EPA earlier this year proposed the standards to account for how nearly all uranium produced in […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he’s determined to address the problems that plague the village of Whiteclay and is working with a Native American activist to seek solutions. Whiteclay’s four beer stores sell primarily to residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation across the border in South Dakota, home of the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Current and former officials of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate are facing federal charges for writing themselves checks for more than $50,000 from a tribal account for expenses that were not justified, according to an indictment filed this week in U.S. District Court in South Dakota. The indictment charges the six officials […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls man could spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of his girlfriend. The Argus Leader reports ( ) Michael Martinez was found guilty Thursday of three counts of first-degree manslaughter, but was acquitted of second-degree murder […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts says he’s determined to address the problems that plague the village of Whiteclay and is working with a Native American activist to seek solutions. Whiteclay’s four beer stores sell primarily to residents of the bordering — and dry — Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal authorities are accusing six current and former Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate officials of bilking the tribe of over $50,000. An indictment charges the individuals with two counts of embezzlement and theft from an Indian tribal organization in connection with the scheme that authorities say happened between 2010 and 2013. Authorities say […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects South Dakota farmers to produce a record soybean crop and more corn than last year. USDA’s latest production report forecasts the state’s soybean crop at 235 million bushels, up 2 percent from last year. Acres for harvest are tying the previous record, and average […]

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The federal government is sending trailers to South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where residents are still recovering from severe storms last spring. Crews are delivering 50 Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers to the Oglala Sioux tribe to help tribal members affected by storms, straight-line winds and flooding over a […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has slightly lowered its corn and soybean harvest estimates based on updated harvest figures across the U.S. Farmers are expected to bring in 13.56 billion bushels of corn, about 1 percent lower than the September estimate but still the third largest crop on record. Record […]