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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Police say three Sioux Falls teenagers accused of stealing an SUV and driving around the city recklessly were arrested after they dropped off a 10-year-old boy at school. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says a woman called police Tuesday morning to report her 2001 Land Rover Discovery was missing. Police had […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A national animal defense nonprofit has honored a Lead woman who pushed heavily to make South Dakota the last state in the nation to make animal cruelty a felony. The Animal Legal Defense Fund has named Shari Kosel one of its Top Ten Animal Defenders for 2015. Kosel is the […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A report by a national group shows that college students who start at four-year schools in North Dakota and South Dakota are following similar paths to completion — including more than 10 percent who finish their studies at other schools. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center tracks the progress of students […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Rapid City man has been sentenced to a month of house arrest and two years of probation for his role in the death of his girlfriend last summer. Nineteen-year-old Dylan Roth was charged with felony hit and run after authorities say he accidentally ran over 18-year-old Erika Weisz with […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Opponents of a proposed solar farm on the outskirts of Sioux Falls are appealing to city and Minnehaha County officials. A joint city-county planning commission last September approved the $25 million Cherry Creek solar farm proposed by Minnesota-based Geronimo Energy, under certain conditions. The Argus Leader reports ( ) some […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Veterans Affairs Black Hills Health Care System Director Stephen DiStasio plans to retire at the end of the month. The VA says Jo-Ann Ginsberg will become acting director March 1 and will serve in that role during the search for a full-time replacement for DiStasio. Ginsberg joined the Black Hills […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A 32-year-old South Dakota man will spend five years in prison for attacking and abducting a woman he and his co-defendant believed was a police informant. Donald Robert Wise of Crooks was sentenced Monday on a charge of second-degree kidnapping. Prosecutors allege he and 30-year-old Sioux Falls woman beat the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Lawmakers return to Pierre Tuesday after a long weekend and will discuss plans to fund transportation projects and let people carry concealed pistols without a permit. The House State Affairs Committee will debate raising roughly $50 million for road and bridge funding. A separate House committee has also reviewed the proposal. […]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — The new Pheasants Forever office in Brookings is aiming to stave off declining populations of the popular game bird by redefining conservation in South Dakota. Howard Vincent is the nonprofit’s president and CEO. Vincent tells the Argus Leader ( ) the office wants to address habitat loses and the trend of […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota-based ambulance service provider says it will begin circulating petitions in Sioux Falls an effort to change rules to allow hospitals to choose between different emergency service providers. KSFY-TV ( ) reports that provider Med-Star Paramedic Ambulance on Monday announced its intentions to start an initiated ordinance petition. […]