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RAPID CITY, S.D. – A 36 year-old Pine Ridge, S.D. man was convicted of robbery, carjacking, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. JT Myore was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2021. He was charged in connection with two separate incidents. The first one occurred in August of 2019 when […]
PINE RIDGE, S.D. – The grass fire burning southeast of Oglala, South Dakota is now estimated at 12,636 acres. The Oglala Sioux Tribe Emergency Management says both grassland and ag land have been consumed in the blaze. Crews spent all of Thursday working on containment lines and hot spots. Great Plains Fire Dispatch says the […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. — A man who helped shoot a man 15 times was sentenced to two life sentences for federal first-degree premeditated murder and other capital felonies. Francisco Villanueva, age 43, previously convicted of murder in Colorado in the mid-1990s, was sentenced by Judge Jeffrey Viken in U.S. District Court to two consecutive life […]
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — The Bush Foundation has withdrawn grant money for a project to revitalize the Lakota language on Pine Ridge. Peter Hill lost his funding after it was discovered that his physical address is in Nebraska and not on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Bush Fellows must live in North Dakota, […]