All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2009 // State transportation officials are immune from a lawsuit filed by a brother of Gov. Mike Rounds over a fatal highway crash, the South Dakota Supreme Court says.The court’s 3-2 decision said the 2004 accident was...
Feb 9 2009 // Question: How many people does it take to support an insurance agency?Answer: At least 1,089. One to run the agency and 1,088 townspeople. The population required to support different businesses varies greatly but...
Jan 6 2009 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded a total of more than $240,000 to two South Dakota fire departments.The McIntosh Volunteer Fire Department gets most of the money, over $180,000 for vehicle acquisition....
Nov 10 2008 // A Sioux Falls man has been sent to prison for three years for paying a man to burn down his business in order to collect the insurance money. Chad Michael Blair pleaded guilty to conspiracy in May for the 2006 arson of...
Oct 31 2008 // South Dakota officials have announced that the state now has four teams of emergency specialists to help communities respond to disasters. Gov. Mike Rounds says 41 people volunteered to be on the Incident Management...
Oct 31 2008 // The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld a circuit judge’s decision to grant a new trial in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Huron doctor. The lawsuit arose out of complications suffered by Lillian Glanzer...
Oct 6 2008 // Midwestern reaction to a proposed bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) has been varied.In Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not happy about the Federal Reserve Bank’s decision to provide an $85...
Sep 22 2008 // Officials of the Wakpa Sica (WAHK’-pah SEECH’-uh) Reconciliation Place on the outskirts of Fort Pierre, South Dakota will spend this fall and winter repairing teepees that were damaged by a summer storm.Hail,...
Sep 19 2008 // Midwestern reaction to the bail out of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) varies by regions and officials.In Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is not happy about the Federal Reserve Bank’s decision to...
Sep 12 2008 // Balancing the need to drive and the need for safety is a tough call for South Dakota lawmakers, says state Rep. Garry Moore. But he says a call to raise the minimum age for driver’s licenses has never been warmly...
Aug 26 2008 // The South Dakota Highway Patrol is placing special emphasis on catching intoxicated drivers through the coming Labor Day weekend.About 11,700 people were ticketed for drunken or drugged driving last year in the state....
Aug 25 2008 // A medical malpractice complaint filed this month in Sioux Falls seeks to challenge the constitutionality of South Dakota’s cap on non-economic damages.South Dakota limits the amount of such damages to $500,000. That...
Aug 25 2008 // A Rapid City neurosurgeon who said he had been sued more than 30 times for malpractice lost two appeals on August 21 in the South Dakota Supreme Court.The court upheld a jury verdict awarding a woman nearly $552,000 in...
Aug 22 2008 // Federal grants totaling nearly $725,000 will be used to help defray costs of South Dakota’s insurance risk pool and establish a vaccination program for those covered by the risk pool.South Dakota is one of 30 states...
May 19 2008 // The South Dakota Supreme Court says an auto insurance policy covers injuries caused when a rifle accidentally fired in a pickup being used to drive deer hunters to the field. A 14-year-old boy was shot in the ankle...
May 16 2008 // The South Dakota governor has asked for a presidential disaster declaration to help cover the costs from an early May snowstorm in western South Dakota. His office says there was more than $7.5 million in damage to public...
May 9 2008 // The South Dakota Supreme Court says an auto insurance policy covers injuries caused when a rifle accidentally fired in a pickup being used to drive deer hunters to the field. A 14-year-old boy was shot in the ankle...
May 8 2008 // Warm weather on the heels of a record-setting blizzard late last week (week of April 28 – May 2, 2008) in western South Dakota has led to threats of flooding as the snow melts.A flood warning was in effect for the...
Apr 30 2008 // More than 16,000 Class-2 misdemeanor charges in South Dakota were dismissed last year. Virtually all of the dismissals were for tickets issued to motorists who could not immediately prove that they had liability insurance...
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