YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — The director of financial assistance for Mount Marty College has been named to a task force that plans the programming of a national financial aid conference. The college says Ken Kocer will serve on the task force to help plan educational sessions for the 2016 National Association of Financial Aid Administrators […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — An Aberdeen-based printing company says it has laid off 55 employees in response to a decrease in customer demand. Midstates Inc. permanently laid off almost 20 percent of its workforce last week. Midstates Group president Dave Burgard tells The American News ( ) the cuts came following order projections from one […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Public school officials in Sioux Falls say a high school teacher accused of using a camera on his shoe to secretly record women has resigned. Sioux Falls Superintendent Brian Maher says he received a letter of resignation from Dallas Wilkinson on Friday. The Roosevelt High School social studies teacher was […]

POLLOCK, S.D. (AP) — A New York-based company that specializes in large-scale renewable energy projects says it’s building a 55-turbine wind farm in north central South Dakota. Consolidated Edison Development says it has already begun working on its new farm in Pollock. Officials say they the farm is located on property owned by a group […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard says higher revenues and lower-than-anticipated spending mean the state has ended the 2015 budget year with a surplus for the fourth year in a row. Daugaard on Monday announced that the state finished the 2015 fiscal year that ended June 30 with $21.5 million over […]

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Two Yankton residents died in a weekend crash on state Highway 52. The Highway Patrol says 52-year-old Khuyen Nguyen (wihn) was driving a car that drifted across the center line and into the path of a sport utility vehicle Sunday afternoon about 5 miles west of Yankton. She and 39-year-old passenger […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has appointed a new full-time magistrate judge for the Third Judicial Circuit. Dawn Elshere has been the Codington County state’s attorney since 2007. Before that she was a deputy state’s attorney in both Codington and Brown counties. She also previously had a private law practice. Elshere […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Regional utility Black Hills Corp. is buying natural gas provider SourceGas, which serves 425,000 customers in Nebraska, Arkansas, Colorado and Wyoming, for roughly $1.2 billion. Black Hills is buying control of SourceGas from by Alinda Capital Partners and GE Energy Financial. As part of the deal, Black Hills is also assuming […]

DELMONT, S.D. (AP) — Members of the tornado-destroyed Zion Lutheran Church in Delmont are beginning the rebuilding process. The century-old church was among 84 structures in and around Delmont damaged or destroyed by the May 10 tornado that also injured nine people. KELO-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1L1UdDw) that a seven-person church building committee plans to meet with […]

SCENIC, S.D. (AP) — A Philippines-based church that bought up the small South Dakota town of Scenic four years ago has started holding services there. Minister Jose Ventilacion tells the Rapid City Journal ( ) services are held in the Scenic Community Hall on Thursdays and Sundays. He says the church thought it best to […]