VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — A nonprofit trying to improve Vermillion’s downtown cultural attractions has acquired two historic movie theaters with help from the University of South Dakota and other groups. The Vermillion Downtown Cultural Association has bought the theaters from March Films, Inc., which owned them for over 40 years. Group board president Bill Anderson […]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — Brookings County will soon have a new emergency alert system capable of sending messages to smartphones and other cellphones. The system the county is pursuing would send the messages to phones physically located in the identified alert area. The Brookings Register reports that thanks to state approval, the Integrated Public Alert […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota State Historical Society is accepting applications for grants to fund large-scale restoration or rehabilitation projects of historic properties. The Deadwood Fund grant program will award amounts ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 for projects scheduled to begin Jan. 1. Funding for the program comes from Deadwood’s gaming revenue.buy Ventolin […]

LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Blazes raging in forests and woodlands across California have taken the life of a firefighter, burned two dozen homes and forced thousands of people to flee as crews continue to battle the flames from the air and the ground. Twenty-one large fires, many sparked by lightning strikes, were burning across […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Maru Genemo’s kids are readers. They love chapter books and picture books, the Hardy Boys and Nate the Great. The 40-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia reads with them because he wants the best for their future, the Argus Leader ( ) reported. “I want to see them have a better life,” […]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — A photograph outlining the silhouettes of Sabreena Brakke and her son, MarcJon, watching the Fourth of July fireworks over Lake Mitchell captures a moment that doctors said the family wouldn’t share. In his first week of life, medical personnel told Brakke and her husband, Sheldon, that MarcJon — better known as […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening’s drawing of the South Dakota Lottery’s “Dakota Cash” game were: 22-25-26-28-29 (twenty-two, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-eight, twenty-nine)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A firefighter evaluating a Northern California wildfire was killed by the erratic, wind-stoked blaze while he was surveying an area to decide the best way for crews to handle the flames, a U.S. Forest Service official said Saturday. Forest Service firefighter David Ruhl, 38, was in a vehicle in the Modoc […]

DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says a 46-year-old Colorado man has died near Lead. The man was riding 2005 Harley Davidson east on U.S. Highway 14A on Friday when drove off the road on a curve and rode into the ditch. The man left his bike and struck a […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Black Hills say they’re taking steps to notify veterans affected by an information breach after an employee accidently threw away personnel files on its Hot Springs campus. The Rapid City Journal reports the VA says someone tossed a box containing files […]