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RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Rapid City man charged in a weekend homicide made his initial court appearance Monday. Lawrence Mexican, 29, is charged with second degree murder in the death of 48-year old Harry Blackbear on Saturday. Rapid City Police were called to an apartment complex on Meade Street about about 10:00pm Saturday for […]
PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota attorney general has found a Whitewood police officer was justified in shooting a Rapid City man in the leg in April. Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg reports that 41-year-old Jaris Kroetch had failed sobriety tests, resisted arrest and attempted to flee from an officer before he was shot at a […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A pair of people who work in South Dakota law enforcement have been punished for social media posts they made about the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests. The state attorney general’s office saida contractor is no longer working with the office after it learned of the contractor’s racist […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Police in Rapid City have made an arrest in a fatal assault at a local motel and identified the victim Monday. Officers were sent to the motel Saturday about 10 p.m. on a report of an assault and found the victim in a room unresponsive. Emergency responders determined the man had […]
PIERRE, S.D. – There were 33 new cases of COVID-19 in the Monday report released by the South Dakota Department of Health. Of those, 9 were reported in Pennington. The county now has 314 cumulative cases and 181 are active. Health Secretary Kim Malsom-Rysdon says they are investigating a cluster at a Rapid City nursing […]
RAPID CITY, SD – As summer approaches, two forces of nature are on a collision course and wildland firefighters will be caught in the middle. New research suggests that the smoke firefighters breathe on the front lines of wildfires is putting them at greater risk from the new coronavirus. At the same time, firefighting conditions […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Soldiers with the South Dakota Army National Guard’s 152nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion arrived in the United States Saturday, June 6, after serving on an 11-month deployment in the Middle East. Members of the Pierre-based unit arrived at Fort Hood, Texas, where they will spend the next two weeks completing demobilization […]
UNDATED – South Dakota gas prices have risen 4.0 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.86/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 628 stations. Gas prices in South Dakota are 25.0 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 89.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. According to […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Words matter. When President Trump called for a halt to all cattle imports into the U.S. in response to domestic cattle producers claiming meat packers use those imports to manipulate domestic supply and prices, the other key players in a recently ratified trade agreement, the USMCA, were listening. Trump made the remarks […]
Mitch Faulkner died April 29, 2024 at home in Spearfish due to complications from his battle with leukemia. […]
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