ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A Groton man accused of having more than 7 pounds of marijuana worth about $40,000 at his farm and business has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison. Forty-five-year-old Timothy Thurston was arrested last December and later pleaded guilty to possessing and intending to distribute drugs. The American News reports […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The latest estimates from the federal Agriculture Department predict smaller corn and soybean crops in South Dakota this year. Corn production is forecast at 760 million bushels, down 3 percent from 2014. Soybean production is pegged at 228 million bushels, down 1 percent from last year’s record Winter wheat is […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — An adult entertainment cabaret in Rapid City that’s been at odds with religious groups or the city during much of its 31-year history is closing. The Rapid City Journal reports ( ) Shotgun Willies will shut down at the end of the month. Owner Aaron Johnson says he’s sold the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The chinook salmon population in Lake Oahe isn’t back to levels seen on the Dakotas fishery before the 2011 Missouri River flood, but officials say it’s getting a boost from a successful lake herring spawn. The 2011 flood flushed rainbow smelt through Oahe Dam. The smelt are the main food source […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police are investigating a taxi cab driver’s report of being robbed at gunpoint. Authorities say the driver reported that a male got into his cab about 1 a.m. Thursday, put a semi-automatic handgun to his neck and demanded money. The driver said he gave an undetermined amount of […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A judge has denied a request from an Aberdeen man charged in a fatal stabbing to visit his mother in a Rapid City hospital.buy flagyl online https://nouvita.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/uk/flagyl.html no prescription The American News ( ) reports 33-year-old John Hemminger’s furlough request was denied Wednesday. Hemminger is charged with premediated murder in the […]

MILBANK, S.D. (AP) — Police say a 30-year-old man accused of slashing his pregnant girlfriend’s throat in St. Paul has been found in northeastern South Dakota. The St. Paul Pioneer Press ( ) reports Steven Gutierrez was charged Aug. 5 with attempted murder and first-degree assault in the July 31 attack. Boyd VanVooren, the police […]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Center for Enterprise Opportunity at Black Hills State University is hosting this year’s annual Women’s Business Conference in Deadwood. The center said Wednesday that the conference is set to be held in late October. This year’s featured speaker at the conference JJ DiGeronimo, who is president of Purposeful […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Troopers from the South Dakota Highway Patrol are working with the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe again this year to help provide additional law enforcement for the Dakota Nation powwow this weekend. This is the third year the Highway Patrol has been invited by the tribe to work with tribal officers […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 07-14-19-27-31 (seven, fourteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, thirty-one)