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News Articles: South Dakota

Heavy rains cause high water levels at the Rapidan Dam near Mankato, Minn., on Monday, June 24, 2024. Officials say the dam is threatened with “imminent failure.”

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  • Weather

More rain is possible in the deluged Midwest as flooding kills 2 and threatens a dam

Severe storms are forecast for Tuesday in parts of western Iowa and eastern Nebraska and showers and storms are also possible in parts of South Dakota and Minnesota.

June 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Elections

Here are South Dakota's 2024 primary election results

Voting concludes Tuesday in South Dakota's presidential and U.S. House primary contests. Follow the live results.

June 04, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

The abortion debate is headed to the ballot box. Here's where voters will decide

From Florida to Arizona, reproductive rights supporters seek to add abortion access to state constitutions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in 2022.

May 29, 2024
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  • The NPR Network
ProLife Across America, a national nonprofit, has placed multiple anti-abortion billboards in Rapid City, South Dakota.

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  • Health Care

What counts as an exception to South Dakota's abortion ban? A video may soon explain

South Dakota allows doctors to terminate a pregnancy only if a patient's life is in jeopardy. Lawmakers say a government-created video would clarify what that exception actually means.

February 27, 2024
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By:
  • Arielle Zionts
Parts of the Midwest, including southern Minnesota, experienced blizzard conditions in 2016.

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  • Weather

Christmas Day storms bring blizzard conditions to Plains and Midwest

Snow and freezing rain fall on South Dakota and Nebraska, posing perilous travel conditions on Christmas Day. Heavy snow is also expected in parts of Minnesota.

December 25, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman and
  • D. Parvaz
Tariq and his family traveled from New York to South Dakota's corn palace for a ceremony honoring his new position as the state's official corn-bassador.

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  • Food

Meet South Dakota's new corn-bassador, a boy who recently found out that corn is real

Tariq has loved corn ever since he found out it was real. The 7-year-old has been declared South Dakota's Official Corn-bassador after his passion for the vegetable went viral on TikTok and YouTube.

September 08, 2022
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  • Dustin Jones
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg speaks to reporters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 9, 2019.

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  • National

South Dakota's attorney general is impeached over a fatal crash

The state's House impeached Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.

April 12, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg speaks to reporters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 9, 2019.

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  • National

South Dakota's attorney general is impeached over a fatal crash

The state's House impeached Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.

April 12, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Area teachers in Sioux Falls, S.D., scramble to grab $1 bills on the ice rink at a Sioux Falls Stampede hockey game on Saturday, in this screenshot from a video posted by <em>Argus Leader</em> reporter Annie Todd that went viral this weekend.

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  • Education

Organizers of the South Dakota teacher 'Dash for Cash' are apologizing and paying up

The Sioux Falls Stampede and CU Mortgage Direct acknowledge the event appeared "degrading and insulting" to educators and are giving an additional $500 to each of the applicants and participants.

December 14, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Molina Richards promised her friend that she wouldn't let anyone forget her daughter, Waniyetu Rose Loves War, who died in 2019.

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  • National

Human Trafficking Crisis In Indian Country 'Like A Pandemic'

Of the 109 people currently listed as missing in South Dakota, 77 of them are indigenous. The state's legislature passed a bill this week to address the alarming crisis on and off reservations.

March 12, 2021
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  • Kirk Siegler
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg says he initially believed he'd hit a deer the night of the crash. It wasn't until the next day, when he drove back to the scene of the incident, that he discovered the body of 55-year-old Joe Boever, whom he'd fatally struck.

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  • Law

South Dakota AG Charged With 3 Misdemeanors In Crash That Killed Pedestrian

Officials on Thursday said given the evidence, they could not bring more severe charges against Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, who fatally struck a man walking down a rural road in September.

February 19, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Gov. Kristi Noem greet President Trump and first lady Melania Trump upon arrival in Rapid City, S.D, in July. Trump was en route to Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

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  • National

Two Rural States With GOP Governors And Very Different COVID-19 Results

Vermont and South Dakota are both among the most rural states in the U.S. One has embraced coronavirus safety measures, the other has not, and their infection and death rates are starkly different.

November 20, 2020
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  • Seth Tupper
A medical staff member performs a COVID-19 test outside the Family Healthcare building in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, on Oct. 15. North Dakota is experiencing an influx in COVID-19 cases and on Nov. 6, the state reported a record high of 1,765 daily new cases.

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  • Health

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Surge In Dakotas: 'It's Like We Opened Up A Spigot'

Faced with overloaded hospitals, doctors in South Dakota and North Dakota struggle to deal with uncontained community spread of COVID-19 and with medical staffing issues in their states.

November 14, 2020
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  • Christianna Silva
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg speaks in Sioux Falls, S.D., in February 2014. Ravnsborg struck and killed a pedestrian Saturday night.

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  • National

S.D.'s Attorney General Fatally Strikes Man With Car, Says He Thought He Hit A Deer

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg struck and killed a 55-year-old man on a rural stretch of road Saturday night. State authorities are investigating.

September 15, 2020
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  • Brakkton Booker
A woman crosses the street as motorcyclists ride through Deadwood, South Dakota during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Despite the pandemic this years rally drew nearly half a million attendees.

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  • Health

States Report Coronavirus Cases Linked To Sturgis, S.D., Motorcycle Rally

Public health officials across the U.S. reported dozens of cases in their states associated with people who attended the annual Sturgis, S.D., motorcycle rally in August.

September 02, 2020
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  • Will Stone
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