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Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024? Arkansas organizers hope to join the list
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Organizers of an effort to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban face a Friday deadline to submit enough signatures to try to put their proposal before voters in November's election. If they're successful, Arkansas would be the sixth state where election...
Police fatally shoot suspect allegedly holding hostages at South Dakota gas station
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota police say a deputy fatally shot an armed suspect Wednesday who allegedly was holding several employees hostage at a Sioux Falls gas station. A Sioux Falls police officer was by the gas station early Wednesday when someone began firing at the...
High school journalism removed from Opportunity Scholarship
High school journalism courses no longer count toward South Dakota’s general merit-based scholarship, though schools can seek a waiver, and teachers in the state haven’t been told why. “There was never any knowledge of this being an issue, and the school district didn’t know...
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Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents serving warrants
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota, has been denied parole. The U.S. Parole Commission said in a statement Tuesday announcing the decision that he won't be eligible...
6 teenage baseball players charged as adults in South Dakota rape case take plea deals
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Six teenage players from a South Dakota American Legion baseball team who were charged as adults in a rape case last summer have reached plea deals. Three players from the Mitchell-based team pleaded guilty last month to being an accessory to a felony, and...
Harrisburg, Tea, Box Elder lead booming South Dakota cities
HARRISBURG, S.D. (AP) — This bedroom community just south of Sioux Falls transformed over the past couple of decades into the fastest-growing South Dakota city of more than 5,000 people, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau and Population Division report. Harrisburg’s...
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Severe weather wreaks havoc across the US — from Midwest flooding to deadly Northeast storms
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Severe weather over days has caused havoc and destruction across the U.S. That includes torrential rains and flooding in the Upper Midwest and powerful storms in the Northeast that left a least two people dead from falling trees. The deadly storms that raked...
Editorial Roundup: South Dakota - Advisory
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Few have flood insurance to help recover from devastating Midwest storms
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Rick Satterwhite’s house backs up to the Missouri River, but flood insurance hadn’t really seemed necessary – until this week, when he had to pump water out of his basement after a round of destructive storms. It’s not the first time he’s had...
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Midwestern flooding collapses a bridge, forces evacuations and kills at least 2
NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. (AP) — Flooding in the Midwestern U.S. killed at least two, collapsed a railroad bridge and sent water surging around a dam Monday after days of heavy rains that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate or be rescued from rising waters. An Illinois man died...
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