Articles by J.P. Skelly

The Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office reporting the passing of Deputy Katherine Frank. The Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office announces with profound sadness the passing of Deputy Katherine Frank, age 26, earlier today. Deputy Frank was surrounded [Read More…]

South Dakotans will see two issues on the November ballot they have already voted on before. Both initiatives are proposed constitutional amendments the state legislature added to the ballot. Amendment I would repeal expanded Medicaid [Read More…]

This is National Bullying Prevention Month. Lana Loken is co-chair of the Davison County Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Coalition. “We want to reach out and educate people on what it is, the prevalence, and [Read More…]

State authorities have released the name of a 46 year old man from Watertown who died as the result of a single-vehicle crash last Thursday. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported around 12:10 [Read More…]

A 35 year old man from Rapid City died Friday in a two-vehicle crash involving motorcycles near Deadwood. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported around 3:30 pm, the driver of a Harley-Davidson FLHX [Read More…]

The Corsica Development Corporation’s Senior Health Care Task Force and Douglas County Memorial Hospital have collaboratively worked out to reach an agreement to return ownership of the former Corsica Good Samaritan Nursing Home since late [Read More…]

 The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation , at the request of the Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office, is conducting an independent investigation into an officer involved shooting that occurred Friday, Oct. 9, in Sioux Falls. [Read More…]

The former Mitchell High School is no more. “There are no walls standing, so everything that we have now is at grade or under the ground.” Superintendent Joe Childs said. However, there’s still work to [Read More…]

Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota will receive a minimum of $52,612,676 as its share in a landmark $17.1 billion multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. It is one of the largest state consumer [Read More…]

Mitchell Technical College Culinary Arts student Jake Toben of Sioux Falls has  been selected as one of twenty students nationwide to receive the $20,000 US Foods Scholars Award, a highly competitive national scholarship recognizing promising [Read More…]

67 years ago a Corn Palace Festival tradition began. “In 1959, the Woolworth’s Five and Dime expanded and took over more of the building and so then for Corn Palace Week, their grand opening was [Read More…]

The South Dakota Department of Corrections is reporting the death of an inmate. 66 year old Benny Laible died at the Jameson Prison in Sioux Falls on Tuesday August 25. At the time of his [Read More…]

A woman from Pierre has been sentenced to a 10-year suspended prison term after earlier pleading guilty to one felony count of Grand Theft. She had been charged with defrauding the South Dakota Medicaid Program [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has established a minimum reward of $25,000 in cases where people went missing or were killed in Indian Country, part of a broader effort to [Read More…]

Mitchell Technical College opened its fall semester on Monday. “Our enrollment looks strong,” said MTC president Theresa Kriese. “We should have a good count at the end of next week. We usually wait for the [Read More…]

The Mitchell School Board took a deep dive into policy series 1000-1200 as part of its annual review. Superintendent Joe Childs says it’s critical for the board to stay up to date on policies. “There’s [Read More…]

For high school students who aren’t thriving in a traditional classroom, a South Dakota school district is trying a different approach. Gold Prospect Academy is a new alternative high school in the Lead-Deadwood school district [Read More…]

Codington County has pulled the plug on its four Flock License Plate Reader cameras in the county due to repeated vandalism. Sheriff Brad Howell says the County Highway Department was removing the fourth and final [Read More…]

A federal court jury has convicted a 41 year old man from Pine Ridge of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance following a three-day jury trial in federal district court in Rapid City. The verdict [Read More…]

Pennington County residents haven’t been able to access some services since a cyberattack knocked out county computer systems in July. The water system in Rapid City, which is part of Pennington County, was among the [Read More…]