PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state House has approved a measure allowing the Secretary of State’s office to audit a random sample of voter signatures from statewide candidates’ petitions to get on the ballot. The House voted 68-0 to send the measure to Gov. Dennis Daugaard. Republican Rep. Jim Bolin says the 2014 election cycle […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a Louisiana man has been arrested after he tried to trick a South Dakota doctor into giving a specific prescription drug. Sioux Falls Police spokesman Sam Clemens says 60-year-old Jessie Mayeaux complained about chest pain at Avera Heart Hospital Monday night. Mayeaux then mentioned several medications that he […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state House has approved a proposal that attempts to shift juvenile offenders toward community-based services and significantly decrease the number committed to the care of the state Department of Corrections. The chamber voted 60-7 Tuesday to send the measure to Gov. Dennis Daugaard for his signature. House Majority Leader Brian […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Bond has been set at $25,000 cash for a Sioux Falls man accused of robbing a bank at gunpoint. Forty-five-year-old Rickey Starks appeared in court on Monday. He did not enter pleas to robbery and aggravated assault charges. Police allege that Starks entered Dacotah Bank on Thursday morning with a […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper was involved in a crash that sent another person to the hospital. Rapid City police say Trooper Brock Olson was helping in the search for a vehicle involved in an unrelated call Monday when a car driven by 50-year-old Ranee Haglund of Rapid City […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Rapid City residents are deciding the fate of a proposed $180 million expansion of the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. The project would replace the facility’s 9,400-seat arena with one that could seat up to 19,000 people. The City Council approved the expansion in December, but a group that wanted the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities are seeking a 33-year-old man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend’s male roommate over the weekend in Sioux Falls. Police were called Saturday morning to Kings Casino, where a 34-year-old man had fled after being stabbed during an altercation in a nearby apartment building. The victim was taken to a […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The airport in Pierre tallied near-record low passenger boardings in February. KCCR-AM reports that total enplanements for the flights to Denver and Minneapolis offered by Great Lakes Airlines were 543. That’s the second lowest passenger boarding mark for a February since 1978. The airport saw 1,130 passengers during the first two […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A proposal to hike funding for roads and bridges by more than $50 million in its first year is headed for a vote in the full state House of Representatives, but the bill will likely require further legislative negotiation before its finished. The House State Affairs Committee on Monday passed a […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There’s no need to worry yet about the dry conditions in Minnesota turning into a drought this spring and summer, experts said Monday, as a winter that was short on snow relaxes its grip. Nearly all of Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas have been abnormally dry for the past several weeks, and […]