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• Win or Lose, Tuesday’s Primaries Are a Big Deal for Women

  05-06-2018 13:00
  There are 122 women on the primary ballots for congressional and statewide executive offices this week.
  
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• Eight States Have Primaries on Tuesday. Here’s What to Watch For.

  05-06-2018 11:00
  Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota are voting on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know about the main races.
  
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• 8 States Have Primary Elections on Tuesday. Here’s What to Watch For.

  05-06-2018 11:00
  Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota are voting on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know about the main races.
  
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• Stensland Family Farms promotes fresh and local

  24-05-2018 06:08
  LARCHWOOD, Iowa — From dairy production to processing, it’s all done local and farm fresh at Stensland Family Farms near Larchwood, Iowa.
  
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• Pierre man sentenced to 20 years for raping 2 15-year-old girls

  24-05-2018 06:08
  Colby Joe Carroll was released on a no-bail bond last fall less than two months after being arrested and charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in Pierre. Less than a month later, he raped another 15-year-old girl, he admitted earlier…
  
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• Noem has edge in fundraising, spending heading into June 5 primary

  24-05-2018 06:08
  
  Republican Kristi Noem led the pack in terms of raising money in the run up to the June 5 South Dakota primary election.
  
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• New numbers, old story for South Dakota cities: Over half estimated to be shrinking

  24-05-2018 06:08
  
  A bit more than half of South Dakota cities and towns are estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to have shrunk or stayed the same size from July 2016 to July 2017, according to numbers released by the federal agency…
  
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• Local man arrested for theft, underage drinking and lying to police

  24-05-2018 06:08
  A Pierre man was arrested Tuesday night after police say he gave them a false name and was caught drinking underage.
  
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• Judge: Births not recorded at FLDS compound

  24-05-2018 06:08
  
  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.
  
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• Capital Journal hosts Blinder seminar

  24-05-2018 06:08
  
  Mike Blinder met with a group of local business owners and managers at the Ramkota on Wednesday. His topics included how to maximize your advertising reach through effective digital and print strategies. A breakfast session will be held Thursday at…
  
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• Budding musicians to star at Thursday recital

  24-05-2018 06:08
  
  Today, Thursday, May 24, from 7:30-8:00pm, the Andrea Royer Studio is hosting their spring recital at the Pierre Grand Opera House, 109 South Pierre Street. The free event is open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to support our…
  
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• With rare divided vote, Pierre commission OKs new fire laws 4-1

  23-05-2018 06:28
  
  Over the opposition of Pierre resident Mike Mehlhaff and City Commissioner Jim Mehlhaff, the city commission voted Tuesday to approve new fire prevention ordinances. The new ordinances go into effect Friday.
  
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• Third generation takes chair at Dakota Barbers in Pierre

  23-05-2018 06:28
  
  The first customer to walk through the door of Dakota Barbers on Tuesday morning was Brian Fitzpatrick. Greeted with a standard question from the shop's co-owner, Jeannine Loesch, Fitzpatrick told her he didn't have a preference among the barbers who'd…
  
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• Relay Recess brings in $4,000 to fight cancer

  23-05-2018 06:28
  
  The students at Kennedy Elementary School in Pierre raised $4,082.42 this school year to fight cancer as part of the American Cancer Society’s Relay Recess program, their teachers say.
  
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• Jill Kenzy gets 24 days in jail, must pay back $2,327 in Walmart self-checkout thefts

  23-05-2018 06:28
  
  State Judge Mark Barnett on Tuesday sentenced Jill Kenzy to 24 days in jail for stealing goods from the Walmart store in Pierre by “palming” the wrong bar code while ringing up her own shopping cart at a self checkout.…
  
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• Hay there, says Fort Pierre: Advertising for bids OK’d

  23-05-2018 06:28
  
  Around 60 acres of land south of Fort Pierre is available for haying.
  
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• Fort Pierre gets same emerald ash borer advice as Pierre: Wait

  23-05-2018 06:28
  
  Fort Pierre's current response to the future arrival of a bug that kills ash trees figures to be the same as Pierre's: Wait until the emerald ash borer (EAB) is detected closer to home before cutting or treating trees.
  
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• Edgar B. “Ed” Taylor, 96

  23-05-2018 06:28
  
  Edgar B. “Ed” Taylor, 96, of Rapid City, died Saturday, April 14, 2018 at the Rapid City Regional Hospice.
  
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• Among state aero panel members, tuition reimbursement gets wings

  23-05-2018 06:28
  The state Aeronautics Commission discussed Tuesday the potential for a program that would reimburse tuition of students who take aviation jobs in South Dakota. The commission also began organizing a study panel on state aviation laws.
  
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• William R. (Bill) Alexander, Jr., 71

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  William R. (Bill) Alexander Jr., 71, died Sunday, May 13, 2018 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre.
  
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• Verna Newell, 85

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  Verna Newell 85 of Webster died on Thursday, May 17, 2018 at Bethesda Home in Webster.
  
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• State Board recommends extra special education aid

  22-05-2018 07:31
  Twenty-three school districts in South Dakota received nods Monday to share $4 million from a statewide pool that helps pay for special education students.
  
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• Police: Two fights land three in jail over the weekend

  22-05-2018 07:31
  Two fights over the weekend resulted in three arrests, the Pierre police department said Monday.
  
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• Let’s keep the ‘A’ in ‘STEAM’: The importance of the arts in our schools

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  Who’s got talent? High school students, that’s who!
  
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• Lawyer for Dakota Range wins a key ruling against interveners

  22-05-2018 07:31
  State regulators agreed Monday to bar interveners from introducing third-party exhibits at a permit hearing for a wind farm planned in northeastern South Dakota.
  
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• How does your garden grow? In a raised bed!

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  At Rowe and Rose lanes just off Deadwood Street in Fort Pierre, the first phase of the community garden took shape on Saturday, as raised beds were assembled, installed and filled with topsoil. The land is being leased by Fort…
  
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• Fort Pierre OKs use of federal funds for road sign upgrades in 2020

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  "A STIP in time saves signs," is not exactly how the old saying goes.
  
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• Fishing runs hot and cold for Lake of the Woods Opener crew

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  ON LAKE OF THE WOODS, Minn. — Anyone who says walleye fishing — or any kind of fishing, for that matter — is an equal opportunity pastime wasn’t in Jason’s Laumb’s boat on the opening weekend of Minnesota’s 2018 walleye…
  
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• Cummings pins Cummings as new Pierre Police Sergeant

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  Pierre Police Patrol Officer Kyle Cummings became a sergeant on Monday in his hometown force.
  
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• Agronomists: SD farmers might need to switch corn varieties as planting goes late

  22-05-2018 07:31
  
  By Sunday, only 66 percent of South Dakota’s corn crop and 24 percent of the soybean crop, had been planted, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ag statistics office.
  
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• State government ethanol use topped 2 million gallons again

  21-05-2018 07:03
  State government used about the same amount of ethanol-blended fuels in 2017 as in previous years, the governor’s director of policy and operations said Friday.
  
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• Preliminary budget has Pierre schools spending half a percent more next year

  21-05-2018 07:03
  Preliminary budget figures for the Pierre School District’s 2018-19 school year show a roughly .5 percent increase over the current budget.
  
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• New owners adding games, graphic novels to Prairie Pages

  21-05-2018 07:03
  
  Last Friday on Pierre Street, traces of the sidewalk-chalked thank-you note from the old owners of Prairie Pages were still visible in front of the store. The complete message from Peggy Stout and Kathy Villa read, "Dear Pierre, It's been…
  
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• Ganje led seminar on mineral and water rights in Pierre

  21-05-2018 07:03
  
  David Ganje, a South Dakota attorney who specializes in natural resources law led a seminar on mineral and water rights in Pierre May, 18. The seminar was sponsored by the Capital Journal. (Nick Lowrey/Capital Journal)
  
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• Company plans to gather Gilt Edge data – and see whether mine is still viable for gold

  21-05-2018 07:03
  
  Different members of the state panel that oversees mining in South Dakota have different views about a company collecting data at a Black Hills gold site that its previous owners shut down because of acid rock drainage.
  
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• Amendment Y seeks to fix Marsy’s Law

  21-05-2018 07:03
  BROOKINGS — While most of the interest in the June 5 primary is directed to Republicans seeking nominations for the governorship and the U.S. House of Representatives, there is one measure on the ballot open to all registered voters in…
  
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• Photos: T.F. Riggs High School Graduation 2018

  21-05-2018 00:45
  
  T.F. Riggs High School graduated 174 seniors at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Their class motto: "Four years we will never forget, even if we did some things we regret."
  
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• Photos: Stanley County High School Graduation 2018

  21-05-2018 00:37
  
  Stanley County High School graduated 37 seniors at noon on Sunday. Their class motto: "Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future." – Ashleigh Brilliant
  
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• Photos: National Guard soldiers welcomed home from Syria

  20-05-2018 14:17
  
  Fifteen South Dakota Army National Guard soldiers deployed to Syria to build bridges for nine months were welcomed home Saturday afternoon in a ceremony held at T.F. Riggs Theater.
  
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• T-storms drop possible SD record 24-hour rain near Long Lake

  19-05-2018 11:35
  
  The thunder storms that roared across South Dakota late Thursday and Friday ripped roofing off a Pierre apartment building, helped wash out a dam near Selby and maybe dropped a state record 24-hour rainfall of 9.2 inches near Long Lake.
  
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• The Moral Rot That Threatens America

  18-05-2018 11:45
  There is only one core task for everyone in Trump’s United States: Keeping the Republic, despite him.
  
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• State board sets hearing on VW diesel settlement

  18-05-2018 08:07
  The state Board of Minerals and Environment decided Thursday to hold a public hearing Aug. 16 on how to spend $8,125,000 South Dakota gets for air-quality improvements from the Volkswagen diesel-mitigation settlement.
  
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• Photo: Midwest Construction scooping out marina

  18-05-2018 08:07
  
  A Midwest Construction long-reach excavator works just behind Drifters Bar & Grill Wednesday morning to remove dirt for the future 84-boat-slip marina that's a part of the Riverwalk Landing project in Fort Pierre. The project is being developed by Midwest…
  
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• Milwaukee man gets 45 years in federal prison for sexual crimes with 2 SD girls under 12 years old

  18-05-2018 08:07
  A federal judge in South Dakota this week sentenced Dashown Raymond Keys of Milwaukee to 45 years in prison for sexual crimes against two girls under the age of 12 in 2013-2016 near Sisseton.
  
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• University of South Dakota Law School facing challenges but seeing opportunities

  18-05-2018 08:06
  
  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.
  
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• Stanley County High School graduation set: 37 grads to hear remarks from School of Mines president

  18-05-2018 08:06
  
  All 37 Stanley County High School seniors will receive diplomas on Sunday, principal Tom O'Boyle told the Capital Journal on Thursday. "Everybody made it," he said.
  
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• New regional FBI head stops in Pierre on tour of SD

  18-05-2018 08:06
  
  Jill Sanborn, nationally known as an FBI counter-terrorism expert, made one thing clear Thursday in Pierre: her extensive background in fighting terrorism “had nothing to do,” with her being named recently the new special agent in charge of the FBI’s…
  
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• New regional FBI head stops in Pierre in tour of SD

  18-05-2018 08:06
  
  Jill Sanborn, nationally known as an FBI counter-terrorism expert, made one thing clear Thursday in Pierre: her extensive background in fighting terrorism “had nothing to do,” with her being named recently the new special agent in charge of the FBI’s…
  
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• Hot dogs, young dogs, fancy cakes help Helmsley Center towards $2.5 million fundraising goal

  18-05-2018 08:06
  
  Significant work is still being done at the construction site of the Avera St. Mary's new Helmsley Center on the south side of Sioux Avenue.
  
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• Slower pace might be better, state Railroad Board decides on fed aid for meet-and-pass

  18-05-2018 07:57
  
  The South Dakota Railroad Board decided Wednesday there isn’t a reason to rush for federal funding for a major improvement on its Mitchell-Rapid City line.
  
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