
Bart Pfankuch
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Gap between low wages and high rents growing in South Dakota
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Like thousands of South Dakotans, Jade War Bonnett of Rapid City lives in constant fear of not having stable housing for her and her two children.
In a state where rents are rising far faster than incomes, the only way War Bonnett and many other low-wage
Opioid fentanyl causing spike in overdoses in South Dakota
SPEARFISH, S.D. – Drug dealer Eric Reeder of Spearfish got word in January 2017 that one of his customers was in trouble after smoking the fentanyl that Reeder had sold him.
“I told you only to take one hit every 20 minutes,” Reeder texted to the 31-year-old man.
But the
South Dakota losing fight against resurgent sex diseases
Once believed to be mostly under control, sexually transmitted diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV/AIDS are all on the rise in South Dakota and across the nation, reaching near-historic infection rates.
Prevention efforts by South Dakota public health officials have not reversed a trend of increasing STD
Judge: Births not recorded at FLDS compound
PRINGLE, S.D. – A South Dakota judge’s ruling has confirmed that children were born on a remote Black Hills compound run by a secretive religious sect, offering new insight into life within the polygamous FLDS.
The ruling in September by Seventh Circuit Judge Jeff W. Davis revealed that births
USD Law School facing challenges but seeing opportunities
VERMILLION, S.D. – One of South Dakota’s most venerable institutions, the law school at the University of South Dakota, is facing academic and financial challenges unprecedented in the school’s 117-year history.
Applications are historically down. The balance sheet is barely in the black. More marginally qualified students have
New federal plan emerges to save SD habitat and species in peril
BUFFALO NATIONAL GAP GRASSLAND, S.D. – Since 1937, South Dakota and other states have relied on the same inadequate federal funding plan to help save endangered species.
Since then, those revenues have proven to be uneven and generally in decline. Coupled with human population growth and destruction of wildlife habitat,
Family members among those charged in elder fraud prosecutions
A 2017 forgery case in northeast South Dakota has the hallmarks of many elderly exploitation cases. An 85-year-old victim. A young family member as suspect. Money stolen, a family torn apart, hearts broken.
According to court papers, the case began when 21-year-old Brett J. Moffenbier of Florence, S.D. was