RAPID CITY—A Former bus driver at Red Cloud Indian School will spend a total of 18 year in federal prison for a sexual relationship with a 14 year old student. US District Judge Jeffrey Viken, sentenced Stacey Garnette, 44, of Allen on July 6 to 18 years in prison and
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Benjamin Wendall Smoke (Courtesy photo) RAPID CITY—In March of 2019, Dale EcofFey. Sr., 55, Pine Ridge, died of injuries received from a beating by Benjamin Wendell Smoke, 63, Manderson. Smoke was convicted of assault resulting in serious bodily injury and sentenced to eight years. He was also sentenced to five
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PIERRE – South Dakota has received the highest rating possible under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, for both Parts B and C for the most recent reporting year of federal fiscal year 2020. The state is one of only 15 across the country to meet the requirements
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The Pawnee Nation celebrated being a National Telecommunications and Information Administration Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantee at a press conference on June 23. (Photo: Pawnee Nation) OKLAHOMA—The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently announced Pawnee Nation as one of its grant recipients as part of the Tribal
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Jenny Gulch RAPID CITY—On Monday morning the US Forest Service green-lit a project for exploratory gold drilling near Pactola Reservoir, close to Jenny Gulch. The project, designed to drill a series of holes and take core samples, is a precursor event to test for ores, suitable for mining prospects in
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RAPID CITY — In response to recent news that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade today, ending the federal right to abortion, NDN Collective released the following statements: “This system is not made by Indigenous people, or for us. It has lost all moral and ethical authority
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RAPID CITY—A Rapid City woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing $65,000 and multiple passports after knocking over a mailbox with her car in February 2021. Courtney Twiss, of Rapid City, backed into a mailbox cluster at Star Village in February 20, 2021, detaching it from its
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Mark Vargo (Photo courtesy of myblog.com) Tuesday, Governor Kristi Noem elected to replace the impeached Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg with a familiar face. She selected Pennington County’s State’s Attorney Mark Vargo to replace him. Vargo has more than 30 years of experience in the legal fields, in both public and
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The summit of Black Elk Peak (Photo courtesy of travelsouthdakota) HILL CITY—Back in 1874 few white Americans had seen the Black Hills, let alone set foot in them. Custer led a gold prospecting expedition deep into the Hills up the only natural access, a canyon carved over millions of
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San Juan County, UT: This rock art faces the San Juan River, in the general area of the River House ruins (accessible by rafting the river, by Jeep or ATV). Photo by Sonya Doctorian. May 1, 2015 WHITE MESA, UT —At a signing ceremony on Saturday, the Bureau of Land
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