GETTSYBURG, S.D. (AP) — Gettysburg’s police chief says his resignation has nothing to do with debate over the department’s emblem and uniform patch that includes a Confederate flag. KCCR radio reports that Bill Wainman said he has taken a position with the Hot Springs Police Department, in part to be closer to family. His last […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A Pierre philanthropist is donating $25,000 to the South Dakota State Historical Society to fund an event celebrating the return of a historic South Dakota artifact. The historical society says philanthropist Mansour Karim has offered the challenge grant to help support the Great Sioux Horse Effigy Return Celebration, a three-day event […]

HURON, S.D. (AP) — Construction has started on a brand new home for the state’s 4-H participants at the South Dakota State Fairgrounds in Huron. The Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that work has begun on the Nordby Exhibit Hall for 4-H, Youth and Community. The 48,000-square-foot hall will feature multiple classrooms, a large kitchen […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Wednesday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 04-18-20-22-35 (four, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, thirty-five)

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — It will take some time and tallying before official attendance numbers for the 75th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally are in, but bikers and officials who’ve packed the small Black Hills town in western South Dakota say it’s one of the largest rallies they’ve ever seen. Attendance projections for this year’s rally, which […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — After nine days, the state Public Utilities Commission has finished hearing from opposing sides in the debate over whether to allow the Keystone XL oil pipeline to run through South Dakota.buy acyclovir online https://taxmama.com/wp-content/forum/styles/new/engl/acyclovir.html no prescription The commission is considering whether to approve for the second time in just over five […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed a new circuit court judge to fill a new judgeship created by the state Legislature this year. Daugaard says Magistrate Judge Matthew Brown, of Custer, will preside as a circuit court judge in South Dakota’s Seventh Circuit Court. The seventh circuit includes Custer, Fall River, Oglala […]

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol says authorities have seized over $10,000 more in cash this year compared to last year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The Department of Public said Wednesday that authorities in western South Dakota have seized over $17,600 in cash since July 28, the majority of which was in Sturgis. […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A plea agreement has been reached in the killing of a woman on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Thirty-year-old Lance Summers pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in the death last year of 38-year-old Natalie White Lightening of Cannon Ball. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison but […]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — A weekend traffic stop on Interstate 90 in western South Dakota yielded 6 pounds of heroin. Lawrence County State’s Attorney John Fitzgerald tells the Black Hills Pioneer ( ) that a Highway Patrol officer stopped the vehicle from Washington state on Saturday near Spearfish. Authorities are pursuing drug charges against two […]