All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 5 2014 // Baseball-sized hail pummeled homes and cars in Nebraska and Iowa on June 2 as powerful thunderstorms moved through a swath of Midwest states, also causing severe flooding and prompting reports of tornadoes.The National...
May 27 2014 // An appearance on the Dr. Phil television show has cost a South Dakota woman her freedom.Mandi Jackson, 38, was on probation for forging checks from a Rapid City cosmetology school and defrauding an insurance company when...
Mar 31 2014 // A South Dakota judge has refused to throw out a defamation lawsuit against ABC related to its coverage of a meat product called lean, finely textured beef, which critics have dubbed “pink slime.”Beef Products...
Mar 24 2014 // After years of debate on the issue, the South Dakota Legislature has finally approved a statewide ban on texting while driving. The state House voted 52-18 in favor of the measure and senators approved it by a 28-7...
Mar 21 2014 // An automated phone message reaching South Dakota residents has been prompting MasterCard customers to enter their card numbers in the dial pad.The South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns consumers that this...
Mar 13 2014 // Sioux Falls, S.D., officials can almost see the finish line in a flood-control upgrade project that has lasted nearly 15 years. But the work construction crews are completing in the city’s west side was not part of...
Mar 10 2014 // Sioux Falls, S.D. officials can almost see the finish line in a flood-control upgrade project that has lasted nearly 15 years. But the work construction crews are completing in the city’s west side was not part of...
Feb 27 2014 // Fatalities in car wrecks on South Dakota highways so far this year have almost doubled compared to the same period in 2013.The state’s Department of Public Safety says 24 people have died in crashes in 2014. The...
Feb 26 2014 // The president of the Thunder Road attractions is behind a bill to further regulate amusement rides in South Dakota.Organization president and Republican Sen. Al Novstrup of Aberdeen co-sponsored the measure. The South...
Feb 20 2014 // The Main Street America Group has introduced its commercial product line, featuring its flagship Main Line Business Owners Policy (Main Line BOP), to independent agents who represent the super-regional property/casualty...
Feb 10 2014 // The navigators who help uninsured people sign up for insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul would be regulated under a bill in the South Dakota Legislature.The sponsor, Sen. Al Novstrup,...
Jan 22 2014 // A South Dakota lawmaker plans to press “send” again and try to persuade his colleagues in the Legislature to join 41 other states and ban texting while driving.Similar measure have failed in recent legislative...
Jan 21 2014 // A South Dakota legislative panel has approved a package aimed at giving people better protection against unfair practices by insurance companies.The proposals were drafted at Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s request after...
Dec 11 2013 // An initiative by South Dakota Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard that was intended to draw 1,000 workers to the state has come up far short.Daugaard announced the New South Dakotans initiative in January 2012 and predicted...
Dec 4 2013 // Workplace fatalities in North Dakota last year totaled 64, up 20 over the year. In South Dakota, workplace fatalities last year totaled 31, unchanged from the previous year.The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says...
Nov 22 2013 // A woman who sued Sanford Medical Center for malpractice for a 2007 surgical procedure that was aborted should not be granted another trial, the South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled.Lisa Lewis sued Sanford after an...
Nov 14 2013 // An auction in Gillette, Wyo. raised $56,000 for ranchers in South Dakota who lost nearly 20,000 head of cattle in a blizzard last month.The Gillette News-Record reported nearly 500 people attended Saturday’s auction...
Nov 11 2013 // A South Dakota farmer is charged in federal court with three counts of filing false crop insurance claims.Fifty-two-year-old Nicholas Berbos has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Trial is scheduled May 13 in Aberdeen. The...
Nov 11 2013 // President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration allowing 14 South Dakota counties and two American Indian reservations to get federal financial help to recover from the early October blizzard that closed roads,...
Nov 5 2013 // Supporters of a South Dakota ballot measure that would prohibit insurance companies from restricting their customers’ choice of out-of-network health care providers have filed petition signatures seeking a public...