All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2020 // After operating without incident for five years, a Sturgis gun store has been burglarized for the second time in two months.Sturgis Guns was broken into at 4:21 a.m. on Dec. 6, according to a police news release....
Nov 25 2020 // Two South Dakota law enforcement officials want the courts to overturn a citizen-approved constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana in the state.The Argus Leader reports Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom and South...
Nov 4 2020 // South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was distracted before he drove onto a highway shoulder where he struck and killed a pedestrian in September, state Secretary of Public Safety Craig Price said on Nov. 2.Price...
Nov 2 2020 // Minnesota-based Medtronic has agreed to pay $9.2 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to a South Dakota neurosurgeon and failed to accurately report them, the Department of Justice has announced.The...
Oct 30 2020 // The Douglas School District in Box Elder, S.D., will pay a former district employee $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in February 2019, representatives from both sides said on Oct. 27.Patrick Ealy said he was wrongly...
Sep 18 2020 // A federal judge has approved legal settlements totaling $440,000 for people in South Dakota who were subjected to forced catheterizations to check for drug use.U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange ruled in April that police...
Sep 16 2020 // South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said in a statement late on Sept. 14 that he realized he had struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway only after returning to the scene the next day and...
Sep 11 2020 // The South Dakota Division of Insurance is terminating its program of allowing temporary insurance producer licenses.The division issued a bulletin in April that outlined grounds for the issuance of temporary insurance...
Sep 8 2020 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has dismissed as “fiction” a recent study published by San Diego State University that ties the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August to a massive surge in COVID-19 cases and...
Aug 25 2020 // The hundreds of thousands of bikers who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have departed western South Dakota, but public health departments in multiple states are trying to measure how much and how quickly the...
Aug 24 2020 // The FBI is investigating a data breach that may have compromised the identity of people with the COVID-19 virus in South Dakota.Paul Niedringhaus, who directs the South Dakota Fusion Center that handles emergency calls,...
Jun 30 2020 // Drivers in South Dakota who use their cellphones can be pulled over and ticketed purely for that offense starting July 1.A new state law taking effect July 1 makes it a Class 2 misdemeanor to use a cellphone while driving...
Jun 22 2020 // Several South Dakota residents who evacuated from their homes after a sinkhole collapsed, exposing an abandoned mine, in April are not eligible to receive federal aid, according to the Federal Emergency Management...
Jun 18 2020 // Hundreds of workers are still absent from the Smithfield meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to union leaders.AFL-CIO secretary treasurer BJ Motley says between 800 and 1,200 of...
Jun 17 2020 // The roar of motorcycles will return to South Dakota’s Black Hills this summer with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, but with some major modifications.The Sturgis City Council has voted to proceed with preparations for...
May 29 2020 // Residents of a Black Hawk, South Dakota, neighborhood where a sinkhole has exposed an abandoned mine endangering their properties have filed a $75.5 million lawsuit claiming government entities and private developers were...
May 27 2020 // A South Dakota bull stud facility faces penalties of more than $122,000 after being cited by federal officials following a worker fatality.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
May 15 2020 // A 24-year-old man died on May 12 in a fall at a downtown Sioux Fall, South Dakota, construction site, police said.Police were called around 10:45 a.m. about a man injured at the construction site of the First Premier Bank...
May 6 2020 // America’s meat-processing plants are starting to reopen but not all workers are showing up. Some still fear they’ll get sick after coronavirus outbreaks shut more than a dozen facilities last month. Employees...
May 5 2020 // Security Insurance Group Inc. (SIG) of Pierre, South Dakota, has joined Midwest Insurance Agency Alliance (MIAA), a network of insurance agencies across seven states. Founded in 2012, SIG is a full-service insurance agency...