PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — These South Dakota lotteries were drawn Friday:

EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. (AP) — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe plans to dis-enroll and banish for life anyone convicted of dealing, making or trafficking methamphetamine on the reservation. The Argus Leader reports ( ) the tribal council this week voted unanimously to adopt a resolution in an effort to confront the tribe’s growing meth problem. […]

Editors: Please note that The Associated Press welcomes editorial contributions from members for the weekly Editorial Roundup. Three editorials are selected every week. Contributions can be made by email at apsiouxfalls@ap.org. ___ Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, July 4, 2015 Still work to be done after same-sex marriage ruling In offering South Dakota’s official reaction to […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal agriculture officials are forecasting South Dakota’s 2015 winter wheat crop to finish with more than a third fewer bushels than last year. Based on July 1 conditions, the National Agricultural Statistics Service says this year’s crop is forecast at 39.4 million bushels. That’s a 13 percent drop from the […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Officials at Avera McKennan Hospital say they’ve acquired almost 70 residential properties south of their Sioux Falls campus in case they want to expand further. The hospital purchased 69 residential properties south of the hospital campus between 23rd and 26th Streets and 7th and Cliff Avenues in Sioux Falls. It […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Police in Rapid City are creating a new part-time position to increase cultural understanding between law enforcement and the community. Chief Karl Jegeris announced Friday the creation of a Cultural Advisory Coordinator position. Twenty-nine-year-old Vaughn Vargas has been appointed as the first coordinator. Vargas is a student at the South […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota Hutterite colony and a Montana company are fighting in court after a business partnership to build and market energy-efficient homes ended. Billings, Montana-based ATechBuilder Corp. alleges in a lawsuit that Brentwood Colony and its ProComm Builders company continued to use ATechBuilder’s technology and marketing program after the two […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — In a story July 9 about South Dakota state legislators calling for a special session, The Associated Press misidentified state Rep. Elizabeth May’s hometown. May is from Kyle, not Rapid City. A corrected version of the story is below: Group of legislators calling for special legislative session Group of South […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Marion man is dead after the motorcycle he was driving was struck by a car on state Highway 42. The Highway Patrol says the car crossed the highway’s center line Thursday afternoon about 11 miles west of Sioux Falls and collided with the motorcycle driven by 60-year-old Roger Waltner. […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota doesn’t have much on the books to help determine when a species can come off its endangered species list. That is changing, however, thanks to the non-game biologists at the Game, Fish and Parks Department. The state list was created in the 1970s as a companion to the federal […]