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Two crew members had to be rescued when a freight train derailed after hitting a washout in southwestern South Dakota. Pennington County authorities say the eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad derailed early Friday when the train came across a washout caused by flash flooding in New Underwood.
Two doctors employed by Sanford Health are suing the company and one of its neurosurgeons, accusing them of defrauding the federal government and harming patients by performing unnecessary surgeries. Dustin Bechtold and Bryan Wellman filed the lawsuit in 2016, and a federal judge unsealed it Thursday.
A South Dakota judge has signed off on the execution of a man convicted of stabbing a former co-worker to death 27 years ago during a burglary at a doughnut shop. Judge Robert Mandel granted a motion Tuesday for an early November execution for Charles Rhines.
Authorities say 34-year-old Ramon Deron Smith had been on the run since the June 8 shooting that killed 42-year-old Larry Carr Jr.
Homeland Security helped in the investigation that led to the two men pleading guilty to drug conspiracy in February.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol says the bodies of the 61-year-old driver and 46-year-old passenger were inside the truck when it was pulled from the river Sunday.
Authorities in South Dakota are searching for two men missing after a garbage truck went into a flooded river.
Representatives say a project that provides backpacks to abused or neglected children entering the social services system has served more than 16,000 children in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota since its launch in 2008.
A Minnesota company is preparing to conduct exploratory drilling for gold near Silver City in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota while two other companies have withdrawn bids to drill on forest land.
A company tied to a man who led a polygamous sect's South Dakota compound has purchased about 40 acres of land in northern Minnesota.
Senate President Pro Tempore Brock Greenfield, the bill's sponsor, says people are being asked to "lease back" their constitutionally protected right to bear firearms.
One person is dead after a small engine plane crashed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota Tuesday.
A conservation organization has gifted 580 acres of land in northeast South Dakota to the state for outdoor recreation.
The mother of a Minnesota teen found dead in his dorm room at Northern State University in South Dakota says her son died of an undetected heart defect.
Authorities say a college freshman from Minnesota has been found dead in his dorm room at Northern State University in South Dakota.
A project that calls for dozens of skyscraper-sized turbines in southwestern Minnesota is stirring fierce opposition across the state border in South Dakota.
A Minnesota man has died of injuries he suffered in a motorcycle crash in eastern South Dakota.
A Pine Ridge woman convicted of strangling another woman to death has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.
Authorities say seven teenage boys were rescued from a small island of rocks at a Sioux Falls park.
The Dakota Range wind project is expected to encompass up to 72 turbines across about 44,500 acres.
The accident happened when a Yankton police officer tried to stop an Acura Integra on Highway 50 near Yankton when its headlights shut off.
A third person has died following a crash between a dump truck and SUV last month near Milbank in northeastern South Dakota.
Authorities arrested a 21-year-old man and a male juvenile on trespassing and drug-related charges.
A South Dakota sheriff-elect is speaking out after the man he ran against fired him as a sheriff's deputy right after the polls closed.
Bon Homme County Sheriff Lenny Gramkow was soundly beaten by Deputy Mark Maggs on June 5.
