Associated Press

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A tornado watch has been issued for a large portion of southeastern South Dakota. The National Weather Service issued the watch Saturday afternoon. It’s in effect until 9 p.m. Central Time. Meteorologist Philip Schumacher says they’re expecting thunder storms to develop and rapidly become severe Saturday evening. He says storms […]

HILL CITY, S.D. (AP) — Heavy rains in western South Dakota have caused flash flooding around the Hill City area of the Black Hills. Pennington County Emergency Management officials say Palmer Gulch Road in Hill City is no longer passable. Officials are asking drivers to take alternate routes as the storm has backed up traffic […]

“Flintstones” fans with a few million dollars now have a chance to rule over the town of Bedrock and own a page right out of history. The owner of Flintstones Bedrock City, a northern Arizona theme park designed around the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, is selling the property for $2 million. Linda Speckels says business has been […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — One of two Minnesota men accused of robbing a South Dakota casino at gunpoint has pleaded not guilty. Roger Kihega, of Cokato, Minnesota, pleaded not guilty to armed robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon Friday. The American News reports ( ) Kihega is accused of stealing cash […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Federal authorities believe a counterculture group that annually meets with thousands of its members in a national forest is headed to the Black Hills this summer. Black Hills National Forest spokesman Scott Jacobsen tells KEVN-TV in Rapid City there is a 95 percent chance the next Rainbow Gathering will be […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A former elementary school custodian in Rapid City who pleaded guilty to enticing two teenage girls to email him explicit photographs will serve 20 years in prison. Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler says 30-year-old Casey Godfrey was sentenced this week. He was convicted of Enticement of a Minor Using the […]

SIOUX FALL, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard says it’s up to federal officials to come up with a potential solution for thousands of South Dakotans whose insurance premiums could jump thousands of dollars a year if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act. Daugaard said recently that […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Department of Health is reminding state residents that mosquitoes can transmit the West Nile virus in June, even though it isn’t yet the peak transmission period. The department said Friday that residents should be careful now even though the peak transmission time for the virus is July through […]

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — The University of South Dakota has named the new dean of its School of Education. Donald Easton-Brooks will take over for interim Dean Hee-sook Choi this month. Easton-Brooks spent two years at Eastern Oregon University as a professor and dean of the Colleges of Business and Education. He received his master’s […]

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