SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Police say no one was injured in a robbery at a Sioux Falls motel in which a shot was fired. Authorities say four people went into a room at the Cloud 9 Motel shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday and demanded money from the room’s occupants. One of the suspects was […]

INTERIOR, S.D. (AP) — Authorities have suspended the search for a Nebraska man missing for nearly a month in Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota. Thirty-nine-year-old Joshua Jacobsen, of Laurel, Nebraska, is believed to have entered the park on July 12. His vehicle was found in a campground on July 17. Dozens of officials […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Chief Justice David Gilbertson has been elected president of the Conference of Chief Justices and chairman of the National Center for State Courts. The one-year positions became effective this week during meetings in Omaha, Nebraska. Gilbertson is the first chief justice from South Dakota to be selected. The Conference […]

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — A quarter-century ago, marking the 50th anniversary of the Sturgis motorcycle rally, a man with a house a block off Main Street said he had just rented his place for $6,000. “It will pay the property taxes for an entire year,” he said. “So, you going to pay the taxes?” another […]

DELMONT, S.D. (AP) — A landmark house in the tornado-ravaged town of Delmont is in the hands of a new owner who wants to secure its future. The Onion House gets its name from a tower with an onion-shaped dome. It was built in 1902 and has served throughout its history as a private home, […]

DELMONT, S.D. (AP) — A landmark house in the tornado-ravaged town of Delmont is in the hands of a new owner who wants to repair it. The Onion House gets its name from a tower with an onion-shaped dome. It was built in 1902 and has served throughout its history as a private home, a […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Fire prompted the evacuation of an aluminum products business in Yankton, but no one was hurt. Deputy Fire Chief Larry Nickles tells the Daily Press & Dakotan ( ) that the Monday afternoon fire started in a paint room at Sapa Extrusions. The cause was not immediately determined. A damage estimate […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — Aberdeen police are looking for the person who stole a car from a funeral home and crashed it into the mortuary building. The American News reports ( ) that the incident at Schriver’s Memorial Mortuary happened Sunday afternoon. Police Capt. Jay Tobin says authorities are treating it as a burglary, and […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s office is looking for candidates to fill the state House of Representatives seat being vacated by Rep. Steve Hickey. The governor’s office said Monday that he anticipates naming an appointee in the fall. Hickey is leaving the Legislature move to Scotland and study Christian ethics in the modern […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — One of four people who authorities say broke into a Todd County government building in Mission last fall has been sentenced to nearly a year in prison. Authorities say 19-year-old Preston White Feather, of Mission, along with a woman and two juveniles broke into the building last August and stole property, […]