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PIERRE – Saturday, April 22 is the next Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. It is an opportunity to safely dispose of unwanted prescription drugs. South Dakotans have been strong participants in the [Read More…]

CYRUS, Minn. (AP) — Three law enforcement officers in west-central Minnesota were shot Saturday night while responding to a domestic disturbance call, authorities said. The Pope County Sheriff’s Office said on its Facebook page that [Read More…]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a federal rule in 24 states that is intended to protect thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways throughout the nation. U.S. District [Read More…]

As the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System works to connect the final towns to the project, they are also working to upsize their water treatment plant. The water plant, north of Vermillion, will be [Read More…]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge canceled the air quality permit for a natural gas power plant that’s under construction along the Yellowstone River in Montana citing worries over climate change. State District Judge Michael Moses [Read More…]

The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that affidavits from an investigation into child pornography allegations against billionaire philanthropist T. Denny Sanford must be unsealed. In 2019, South Dakota investigators searched his email account, as [Read More…]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Wisconsin sentenced a Minnesota man on Friday to two years in prison for aiming a laser at a Delta Air Lines jet in 2021, an act that [Read More…]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal court ruling that a Minnesota law prohibiting 18-to-20-year-olds from obtaining permits to carry handguns in public is unconstitutional remained on hold Monday while the state pursues a potential [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota’s Division of Criminal Investigation is leading the investigation into the death of a 32-year-old man that occurred Thursday afternoon in Pierre. At about 5 p.m., law enforcement responded to a call [Read More…]

March’s final Powerball drawing resulted in the latest million-dollar Lottery winner in South Dakota. A $1 million winning ticket was purchased at Kessler’s in Aberdeen. The ticket matched 5 of 5 winning numbers and was [Read More…]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of two teenagers charged in the beating death of an Iowa high school teacher will testify against his co-defendant, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. Jeremy Goodale has agreed to testify against Willard [Read More…]

During this week’s announcement of Avera Queen of Peace becoming a Critical Access Hospital, incoming president and CEO, Dr. Hilary Rockwell said it may add some services such as in-patient dialysis. She says it will [Read More…]

Tornadoes ripped across parts of central Mississippi and northwest Alabama last week causing significant damage to the Mississippi cities of Rolling Fork and Silver City. The Rolling Fork tornado was rated an E-F Four with [Read More…]

The preliminary investigation into a suspicious fire on Wednesday in a second-floor boys bathroom at the Georgia Morse Middle School in Pierre indicates the fire was intentionally set. Pierre Police Captain Bryan Walz says the [Read More…]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee Republicans began this year’s legislative session hoping to add narrow exceptions to one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, armed with the belief that most [Read More…]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man is accused of fatally stabbing his wife during a Bible study session. Police in St. Paul called to a home around 9 p.m. Tuesday found Corinna Woodhull [Read More…]

SHELDON, Iowa (AP) — A suspect in an Iowa killing was arrested Friday outside a marijuana dispensary in South Dakota, authorities said. Nathanial Byron Kessel, 41, of Rock Rapids, Iowa, is now awaiting extradition. He [Read More…]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — Attorneys took their fight over whether to unseal more documents in the 2019 child pornography investigation of billionaire banker and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford to the South Dakota Supreme Court on [Read More…]