Since starting his career, the Spearfish police chief has worn many hats in the area’s law enforcement arena, including as a jailer at the county level.
Pennington County State's Attorney Mark Vargo is taking a job in Thailand, and resigning his post in the office next month. Vargo served briefly as the South Dakota Attorney General last year.
It's the luck of the Irish is a saying that goes with St. Patrick's day however, you won't be so lucky if you decide to get behind the wheel while impaired.
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety is investigating a death threat made against Representative Jon Hansen (R-Dell Rapids) and Fred Deutsch (R-Florence).
The decision to commute the sentences of three women convicted of manslaughter by Governor Kristi Noem is drawing strong criticism from some of the victim’s families.
The Newell Festival of Trees raises money for Butte County volunteer emergency services Saturday. Over 20 decorated trees and silent auction items are up for grabs to support first responders.
23-year-old Branden Spence from Australia has been with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office since 2019, serving in several capacities, including detox work.
South Dakota state lawmakers were not informed by Governor Kristi Noem about her intentions to raise wages for Department of Public Safety staffers, but instead learned about it from Twitter. With the gubernatorial election less than three months away, some worry that the move was political.
Although this weekend's disturbance at the Central States Fairgrounds has some visitors concerned, others appreciate the presence of Pennington County Sheriff's deputies.
Brendyn Medina, spokesperson for the RCPD, tells us that this was part of several threats made at secondary education institutions across South Dakota.
The vote took place just after noon Tuesday, following more than an hour of debate. The final vote was 36 to 31, the absolute minimum amount of votes necessary to impeach.
At the request of legislators, the SD Department of Public Safety gave a public briefing explaining how they came to the conclusions they did in the investigation into Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, and what they believe happened the night he struck and killed Joe Boever.
The three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday for violating Arbery’s civil rights and targeting him because he was Black.
Police in Wyoming arrested a school bus driver taking high school students to an activity in South Dakota for suspected DUI and having an open container of alcohol.
State lawmakers on the Senate Health and Human Services committee voted Thursday to put a recreational marijuana legalization bill on the Senate floor. However, the future of the bill is uncertain.
according to the South Dakota Department of Corrections, Jeremiah Little, an inmate who was being transported to his community service Jobsite in Rapid City, got out of the transport vehicle and immediately left the area in another vehicle.
A South Dakota House committee weighing impeachment charges against the state’s attorney general is moving to answer lawmakers’ remaining questions on his 2020 fatal car crash.
Authorities say a man was arrested for DUI after his vehicle struck a Sioux Falls Police car. It happened about 1:20 a.m. Friday. Police say an officer saw a vehicle driving the wrong way and turned on his lights.
Criminal investigators are telling South Dakota lawmakers that they didn’t believe the state’s attorney general when he told them he never saw the body of the man he fatally struck on the night of the 2020 crash
Two more law enforcement officers expressed doubt with the account South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has given of what happened in a September 2020 incident where he struck and killed Joe Boever outside of Highmore, South Dakota.
The select committee considering the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg grilled members of law enforcement on Tuesday about the merits of the investigation into the September 2020 crash.
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