VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol says a 75-year-old woman has died from the injuries she sustained in a two-vehicle crash in Vermillion. The woman has been identified as Rosie Roegiers, of Burbank. The Highway Patrol on Monday said Roegiers died Friday at a Sioux Falls hospital. Authorities say the incident happened […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A group of South Dakota lawmakers have chosen topics related to county government and the state’s High School Activities Association to study ahead of the 2016 legislative session. The Legislature’s Executive Board voted Monday to approve two studies, and lawmakers are expected to choose an additional inquiry next month. Legislators […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A young giraffe from a South Dakota zoo is about to begin an overseas trip to a new home. The almost 2-year-old giraffe from the Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History in Sioux Falls is being sent to Zoorasia in Yokohama, Japan.buy propecia online https://pharmacohealthcare.com/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/engl/propecia.html no prescription […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A key hearing to determine whether the state Public Utilities Commission will allow construction of the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline to move forward through South Dakota won’t be held next week, the commission voted on Monday. The regulatory body met in Pierre and voted 3-0 to delay final arguments to […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls high school student is facing felony charges after police found marijuana and hydrocodone pills in his car. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says the car of the 17-year-old was searched after a drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the car during a random drug check at a lot where […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Attorney General Marty Jackley is warning residents about a group that is seeking donations to rename Harney Peak in Pennington County. Jackley says Black Elk Development of Porcupine is billing itself as the “official and authorized” group for the renaming of the peak, but the group isn’t listed as a charitable […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The state Public Utilities Commission has voted to postpone a key hearing on whether to allow construction of the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline through South Dakota. The commission voted 3-0 Monday to delay the hearing, which was supposed to begin next week. For the project to move forward, regulators must […]

MADISON, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Board of Regents has named a new president for Dakota State University in Madison. José-Marie Griffiths currently is vice president for academic affairs at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. She will become the 23rd president of Dakota State late this summer. Regent Terry Baloun says Griffiths has […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A McLaughlin man convicted of assaulting a federal officer has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison. Twenty-two-year-old Jorge Trujillo was accused of reaching for a knife in the waistband of his pants last August when a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer told him to raise his hands above his […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — An Eagle Butte woman who caused a vehicle crash when she fled from a police officer while driving drunk has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says 28-year-old Kenna Bridwell also was ordered to pay about $58 in restitution. She will […]