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CUSTER, S.D. — Custer County Commissioners have voted to rescind an ordinance that allowed the carrying of guns into the county courthouse. The moves follows the South Dakota Supreme Court’s approval of an order by 7th Circuit Judge Craig Pfeifle, which states that judges would not physically appear in the Custer County Courtroom because of […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge in Pierre heard nearly three hours of arguments from attornies on Wednesday in a lawsuit that will ultimately decide the fate of an amendment to the state constitution legalizing recreational marijuana, medical marijuana and hemp. Voters approved the amendment in November with 54% of the vote. But […]
PIERRE, S.D. – Members of the State House passed a controversial bill requiring birth certificates issued by the state reflect the biological sex of the newborn. HB1076 was killed in committee Tuesday. Members of the full House scheduled the bill for floor debate anyway using a procedural maneuver known as a ‘smoke out.’ The bill […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, today questioned Denis McDonough, nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on the future of the VA facility in Hot Springs, SD. Rounds asked: “The Hot Springs VA facility in Hot Springs, South Dakota, is a […]
PIERRE, S.D. – The Wednesday COVID-19 report indicated 34 new deaths, sending the state’s death toll since the pandemic began. Of the new deaths, 5 of them were reported out of Lawrence County, where the county’s death toll rose to 40. Pennington and Custer County also reported one new COVID-19 related death. In all, there […]
RAPID CITY, SD – “You want us to put what … where?” You could hear a pin drop in the board room of the just completed 250,000 square foot Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Opened in 1977, it still had that new construction smell. So you can imagine how board members were trying to get their […]
RAPD CITY, SD — It’s a misconception that livestock related events during the Black Hills Stock Show begin on the first Monday of the event – in this case Feb. 1. Prior to that date, the Kjerstad Event Center on the Central States Fairgrounds has been filled with people and horses from across the country, […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A House bill endorsed by both parties seeks to disclose the security costs for Gov. Kristi Noem’s travel on behalf of former President Donald Trump’s campaign last year. Requests for the information by The Associated Press and other media outlets have been rejected with officials citing security concerns. Republican Rep. Taffy […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Republican lawmakers have revived a proposed law that would have banned people from changing the sex designation on their birth certificates. A House committee earlier rejected the bill that LGBTQ advocates decried as an attack on transgender people. Republicans in the House forced the bill to be brought to […]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem would support using a grand jury to decide whether charges should be filed against the state’s attorney general, who struck and killed a man along a highway in September. Noem has been critical of the fact no decision has been made by prosecutors on whether […]
Sharon was born on April 17, 1948, in Sturgis, South Dakota, as the oldest child of Hazel and […]
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