06/07/11 The South Dakota Republican Party is making some changes to its operational structure.
06/05/11 The South Dakota Republican Party is planning to open a satellite office in Rapid City, at the same time it shifts its center of operations from Pierre to Sioux Falls.
06/04/11 The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Department has identified a Fargo man killed in a rollover accident Friday on Interstate 29. Ramada Suljic, 66, was pronounced dead early Friday. He was the passenger in a car driven by 38-year-old Fargo resident Jasmin Omerovic. The accident happened at 7:34 a.m. just north of the Baltic exit at mile marker 94 in the southbound lane, according to the sheriff's ...
04/18/11 James Eitrheim, a 31-year theater teacher at Oak Park-River Forest High School who inspired such movie and TV stars as Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Dan Castelleneta, Tom Lennon and Kathy Griffin, died Saturday, April 16, of stomach cancer. He was 78. Eitrheim is credited with mentoring hundreds of students and developing their passion for the arts. Many of his students went on to pursue artistic ...
04/01/11 The Andes Central girls and South Central boys claimed top honors in the Southeast South Dakota Small-School Invitational, held Thursday at Fox Run Golf Course in Yankton.
03/12/11 BALTIC - In the cold, still air of the indoor arena, youths brush, saddle and mount well-behaved horses for their weekly ride. The session at Hope Reins, an equine, nonprofit outreach program in rural Baltic, was in full swing on a recent weekday. It's not a lesson, really, but more of a shared experience, a communion between the horse and human that does much to heal emotional and psychological ...
02/18/11 I took a young lady to dinner in Washington, D.C., Paula, who worked for the Riggs Bank, because I wanted to thank her for arranging the visit of a prominent Russian to an agricultural distance-learning symposium in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Russian later became the minister of agriculture.
01/24/11 PIERRE, S.D. (AP) _ A freshman state senator from Baltic who was speaker of the House the past two years as a state representative is the new chairman of South Dakota's Republican Party.
01/24/11 Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Tommy Robredo, Spain, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, def. Fernando Verdasco (9), Spain, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.
01/23/11 Republican state lawmakers soon might introduce legislation that would ban local governments from negotiating collective bargaining agreements, a move that would effectively neutralize the unions that represent South Dakota's teachers and other public-sector employees. If such legislation would pass, union officials no longer would be able to negotiate contracts on behalf of their members ...
01/23/11 Associated Press - January 23, 2011 3:55 PM ET Class AA 1. Sioux Falls O'Gorman (10-1) beat Brookings 70-45.
01/22/11 The fifth-ranked Class A Beresford girls held off a surging ninth-ranked Canton squad to win 49-48 in overtime in girls basketball action Friday in Beresford. Alyson Johnsen scored 14 points and Jessica Finch had 12 points and eight rebounds for Beresford, which led 36-27 going into the fourth quarter. Canton outscored the Watchdogs 16-7 in the fourth quarter to force overtime. Taryn Twite added ...
01/19/11 Abbey Fujan's 16 points paced second-ranked Class AA Roosevelt to a 57-55 non-conference girls basketball win over fourth-ranked Yankton on Tuesday in Yankton. Fujan was 7-for-9 from the field and she also had 10 rebounds. Roosevelt (8-1) led 36-31 at halftime. For Yankton (7-3), Emily Anderson had 14 points and Heather Ray 10. Chloe Cornemann had five assists. The Rough Riders shot 46.2 percent ...
01/10/11 WASHINGTON - When Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was targeted for defeat last year with a map showing a rifle's cross hairs over her district, she worried it might incite violence. "When people do that, they've got to realize there's consequences to that action," she said, after Sarah Palin used the cross hairs to tell her followers of 20 House Demo-crats who should be defeated. Whether it's too much ...
01/09/11 The executive director of the Associated School Boards of South Dakota recently sent a memo to school districts telling them to brace for even deeper cuts to school funding than what former Gov. Mike Rounds proposed for the fiscal year 2012 budget. Executive director Wayne Lueders said he has heard rumors he considers reliable that Gov. Dennis Daugaard's administration is considering a 10 ...
01/08/11 Chelsey Biegler scored 19 points and Ashton Beaird 17 as the Rapid City Central girls basketball team handed top-ranked Class AA Roosevelt its first loss, 60-52, on Friday night at Roosevelt. Markie Kruse and Taylor Bauer each had 10 points for Central, which led 26-21 at halftime and 40-31 after three quarters. Kruse had nine rebounds and Beaird eight. For Roosevelt (6-1), Abbey Fujan scored 12 ...
01/08/11 BuckeyeXtra - Ohio State football newsletter from Dispatch Interactive
01/07/11 Tanner Settles hit a basket in the lane with 2.6 remaining to send Vermillion past West Central 47-46 on Thursday in Vermillion. Settles scored the basket - his only points of the night - after grabbing an offensive rebound. Austin Krier scored 16 points and Nile Morecraft had 15 for Vermillion. Tanner Anderson added 11 points and seven steals. For West Central, Mitch Brockhouse had 11 points ...
12/29/10 Malloy scored 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead No. 1 Class A Parkston to a 48-40 win over Tri-Valley at the 31st Annual Parkston Girls Basketball Classic Tuesday night. Logan Wagner added 14 points and Jenna Heiser had 12 rebounds for the Trojans (6-0), who trailed 20-16 at halftime. Hunter Mathieu scored nine points and Tasha Graves had eight rebounds for Tri-Valley (3-3).
11/22/10 A recent study by the Education Law Center praised South Dakota's per-student funding formula for distributing state aid general fund dollars fairly, but the amount of capital dollars that school districts are able to raise varies widely. | 
