SIOUX FALLS, S.D.– With Lyft possibly in route to Sioux Falls, police are hoping the ride sharing company helps improve public safety and will cut down on the number of DWI arrests they make each year. For the last three years, Sioux Falls Police have arrested more than 11-hundred people for DWI each year in the city. So far this…
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – Authorities say a former Bennett County state’s attorney convicted of tax evasion has once again failed to pay taxes. Forty-eight-year-old Kenneth Orrock, of Rapid City, is facing sentencing later this month after failing to pay $17,000 in federal taxes he had collected from his employees at the Black Hills Patrol security agency in 2015. Orrock…
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – UPDATE: Preliminary autopsy results indicate that three people who were killed in a mobile home fire in Rapid City died of smoke inhalation. The blaze occurred Friday. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office and the Rapid City Police Department are still working to positively identify the three victims. Officials said earlier that at least two of…
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – Authorities are holding a Piedmont man in a shooting that seriously injured another man in Rapid City. Police say the 49-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder on Monday. He’s being held in the Pennington County jail. Rapid City Police Sgt. Andy Becker says officers responded around 8 a.m. Monday to a call…
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -The mayor of Rapid City is presenting options for replacing the community’s aging arena. Mayor Steve Allender says the outdated design and size of Barnett Arena has contributed to a decline in the “top tier” events that can generate revenue for the local economy. Allender says it comes down to two options. Remodel the current arena…
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – The Pennington County Public Defender’s Office is asking the county for about $350,000 to help defend a man facing the death penalty for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend. The extra costs in Jonathon Klinetobe’s case involve expert evaluations, travel expenses and witness fees. The 27-year-old Klinetobe, of Sturgis, is charged with first-degree murder for…
RAPID CITY, S.D.- A state prison inmate has been placed on escape status after walking away from a minimum-security facility. Robert Running Shield, 51, left the Rapid City Community Work Center without authorization Monday evening. Running Shield is described as a 6″1′ Native American male weighing approximately 170 pounds with partially gray hair and brown eyes. Running Shield is currently…
1/1 Show Caption Hide Caption Rapid City, S.D.-Attorney Marty Jackley confirms inmate Moses Dubray, 32, was found dead along Highway 89 Wednesday. Dubray was placed on escaped status earlier this week after he walked away from the Rapid City Community Work Center. His death is being investigated. An autopsy will be conducted and more information will be released upon its…
Courtesy: South Dakota Dept. of TourismRAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – Some South Dakota residents are worried about an influx of tourists in their neighborhoods after Pennington County commissioners expanded the areas where vacation home rentals may be located. County commissioners approved some changes to the vacation home rental ordinance Tuesday to include allowing rentals in neighborhoods zoned suburban residential district….
1/1 Show Caption Hide Caption SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Ten people on two adjacent Native American reservations in South Dakota are volunteering this winter to help stranded motorists and emergency vehicles. These self-proclaimed road guardians on the sprawling Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations help tow vehicles, deliver fuel, change tires, provide traffic control at crash scenes and perform several other…
A veteran school crossing guard in Rapid City is hanging up his fluorescent vest for the last time as he retires with pride that no child was ever injured while he protected them from traffic.
State officials have reopened Interstate 90 to traffic between Spearfish Exit 14 and Piedmont Exit 44 in both directions.
Inmate David A. Bujarski was scheduled to return to the Rapid City Community Work Center Nov. 24, but escape procedures were enacted when he failed to return at the scheduled time.
The cause of a prairie fire that burned 64 square miles of grassland and killed nearly 300 cattle in western South Dakota last month might remain a mystery.
A drug bust operation in Rapid City resulted in what authorities say is a record amount of heroin recovered in western South Dakota.
The Rapid City school district is going to check for lead in the drinking water at its schools.
For the first time since 2001 the Lincoln Patriots are the South Dakota Girls State Tennis Champions.
Aberdeen avenged last year’s State AA Title Game loss to Rapid City Stevens with a 5-1 win.
Madeline Avery scored all three of Rapid City Central’s goals in the second half to lead them to the AA State Soccer Title.
A South Dakota man has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role in the death of a 30-year-old man.
