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CANTON, S.D. — A former day care worker accused of sexual contact with children at a Lincoln County day care has pleaded guilty. It comes as part of a plea deal for Chris Phoumy; he pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual contact with children under the age of 16. The alleged crimes were caught on […]
RAPID CITY, S.D.  – A Porcupine man admitted to killing a man on the Pine Ridge Reservation last fall in a change of plea in federal court. Trey New Holy, 29, pleaded guilty Friday on a voluntary manslaughter charge. According to the factual basis statement New Holy signed, in early September of last year, New […]
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Robert Yellow Bird, who was accused of shooting and killing 29-year-old Joseph Standing Bear of Norris and 37-year-old Petan Milk of Rapid City last August at a North Rapid apartment, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Yellow Bird, […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD – A South Dakota woman accused of abandoning her newborn baby 40 years ago has changed her plea from innocent of murder to guilty of manslaughter. Theresa Rose Bentaas, 60, Sioux Falls, SDwas charged with first and second-degree murder in the 1981 death of Baby Andrew. With the guilty plea to manslaughter, […]