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35-year-old Billie Jean Red Owl from Kyle, South Dakota, has agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s office in a case where she was charged with murdering her less than three-month-old daughter through [Read More…]

Sioux Falls Police has arrested a 30-year-old resident, Tyrees Washington, in connection with gunshots heard in the downtown area this past weekend. Responding to reports of shots fired early Saturday morning, police found Washington in [Read More…]

Jed Smeenk, a 32-year-old Belle Fourche resident, is facing a felony charge in Sioux Falls after allegedly breaking a valuable art piece on display in downtown Sioux Falls. Smeenk was walking along Phillips Avenue when [Read More…]

James Michael Johnson, a Sioux Falls man involved in an alleged plot to riot at a Pride event in northern Idaho, accepted a plea agreement, admitting to participating in an assembly without a permit. His [Read More…]

Two nonprofits have sued a white nationalist hate group in North Dakota, alleging that it committed racial intimidation by defacing businesses and public property around the city of Fargo with the group’s logo and other [Read More…]

With the pause of more than three years on federal student loan repayments coming to an end in October, and the Supreme Court’s summer decision to strike down the White House’s one-time debt relief program, [Read More…]

Josh Kogel, the dedicated chief firefighter of Cavour, tragically lost his life while combating a fire in Huron on Monday. At 48 years old, Kogel had served as a firefighter for more than two decades, [Read More…]

On Monday, September 4th, a tragic fire incident occurred in Huron, resulting in the loss of one firefighter’s life. The fire took place at the Hurd Alignment & Service building on Old Highway 14 W., [Read More…]

Early Sunday morning in Rapid City, a two-vehicle collision resulted in one fatality, with the names of those involved yet to be disclosed pending family notification. The incident occurred when a speeding 2003 Volkswagen Jetta, [Read More…]

(John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight) – A 42-year old former correctional officer who pressed his thumb into the neck of a strapped-down, mentally ill prison inmate was convicted by a jury of simple assault against [Read More…]

(Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight) – A large feedlot near Watertown with about 10,000 cattle was recently disciplined for not properly managing its manure. But not by the state. It was the Codington County Board [Read More…]

A deadly two-vehicle collision occurred near Madison, S.D., on Saturday morning, resulting in one fatality and injuries to three individuals. The incident took place on South Dakota Highway 81 when a Chevrolet Cruz entered the [Read More…]

A stabbing incident occurred in rural Turner County just before midnight on Friday. An intoxicated person turned violent at a gathering, damaging property and fleeing into a cornfield. When someone from the group attempted to [Read More…]

In a harrowing incident in Clark, South Dakota, on Thursday afternoon, a child took heroic action to rescue their younger siblings from a blazing mobile home in the 300 block of 2nd Avenue Northwest. Three [Read More…]

According to the Turner County Sheriff’s Office, a man was was taken into custody on Friday in connection with threatening to blow up a city council and threatening to kill council members last week. An [Read More…]

A 2-year sentencing in the South Dakota State Penitentiary with a one-year suspension was imposed today in the case involving former Henry School District teacher Shanna Ries regarding the plea agreement she entered on July [Read More…]

(Makenzie Huber – South Dakota Search Light) – Current eligibility rules for the state’s armed school sentinel program don’t disqualify people who are barred from possessing firearms, according to Hank Prim, executive secretary for the Law [Read More…]