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October 13, 2017

South Dakota school cancels homecoming after racist stunt

A South Dakota high school has forfeited its homecoming football game against a school from a nearby American Indian ...

October 07, 2017

This week in odd news: Dog with longest tongue; Koala mala

Police say a central Wyoming man they arrested for public intoxication claimed he had traveled back in time to warn of an ...

October 06, 2017

South Dakota St. Bernard has record-longest tongue for a dog

A St. Bernard in South Dakota has set a new, slobbery world record. Mochi, also known as Mo, holds the Guinness World Records ...

October 05, 2017

Thwarted in Congress, gun-control groups see hope in states

Brushed aside by the Republican-controlled Congress, gun control advocates have shifted much of their campaign for tighter ...

September 29, 2017

Nebraska court ends beer sales near South Dakota reservation

Four Nebraska beer stores criticized for selling millions of cans each year next to an American Indian reservation where ...

September 22, 2017

Rapper Chief Keef pleads not guilty to South Dakota charges

Rapper Chief Keef has pleaded not guilty to drug charges in South Dakota. The rapper whose legal name is Keith Cozart was ...

September 14, 2017

South Dakota court rejects law aimed at online sales taxes

South Dakota's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that would require out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes ...

September 14, 2017

South Dakota Indian students will hear original works played

A composing boot camp is allowing teens and adults from a South Dakota American Indian reservation who may never have written ...

August 29, 2017

Nebraska town awaits ruling on beer sales near reservation

Four months after state regulators halted beer sales in a Nebraska town along South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, ...

August 28, 2017

South Dakota seeks overturn of high court sales tax decision

South Dakota officials, seeking a path for states to collect billions of dollars each year in sales taxes from internet ...

August 10, 2017

Attorney: Settlement of lawsuit against ABC exceeds $177M

A legal settlement between ABC and a South Dakota meat producer in a defamation lawsuit over the network's reports on a beef ...

August 10, 2017

The Latest: BPI attorney: Settlement with ABC exceeds $177M

The Latest on the size of a legal settlement between ABC and a South Dakota meat producer (all times local): ___ 5:10 p.m.

August 09, 2017

Keystone XL foes question proposed route through Nebraska

Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline questioned its proposed pathway through Nebraska on Tuesday in hopes that state ...

July 25, 2017

Highway Patrol: 2 dead, 6 hurt in South Dakota crash

Two people were killed and six others hurt when an 81-year-old woman drove into a group of people and then into a nursing ...

June 29, 2017

South Dakota sued for using catheter in toddler drug screen

The American Civil Liberties Union sued South Dakota on Thursday over the forced use of a catheter to take a urine sample ...

June 28, 2017

ABC, meat producer settle in $1.9B 'pink slime' libel suit

ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the network over its ...

June 28, 2017

The Latest: BPI: Settlement a foundation to grow business

The Latest on the settlement between Beef Products Inc. and ABC over the meat producer's "pink slime" defamation lawsuit (all ...

June 27, 2017

Tennessee man takes Elvis guitar fight to appeals court

A Tennessee man is asking an appeals court to overturn a decision awarding a guitar once owned by Elvis Presley to the ...

June 27, 2017

Egg executives in salmonella case must report to prison

A father and son whose Iowa-based egg production company caused a massive 2010 salmonella outbreak have exhausted their ...