Deadwood officials leading effort to legalize sports betting in South Dakota
Next month, the South Dakota Legislature will be asked to pave the way for legalized sports betting in the state.
Proponents pushing a constitutional amendment to allow the gaming in Deadwood casinos want lawmakers to place the question on the 2020 ballot.
Several states now offer sports betting and others
More than $19 million paid to South Dakota farmers for tariff losses
South Dakota farmers recently received $19.4 million in payments from the federal government to offset losses due to an ongoing international trade war that has devastated two major agricultural industries in the state – soybeans and hogs.
An agriculture industry official said that the emergency payments may help some farmers
Low pay complicates efforts to attract, retain nurses in South Dakota
The nursing industry is under pressure in South Dakota as an aging population, fewer nursing students and an older workforce are combining to create staffing shortages.
But the state has an added challenge in filling open nursing positions – pay. National nursing studies show RNs in South Dakota earn less than
After 10 years in prison, woman vows to end meth addiction
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The turbulent path that led Athanasia Comer of Sioux Falls to a life of drinking, drugs and a decade behind bars can be traced to the moment when she was 11 and her stepfather appeared in her bedroom naked.
Though he had been verbally and physically
Woman forges new future with family, not meth
RAPID CITY, S.D. – The lowest, most frightening point of Brandi Snow-Fly’s 15-year methamphetamine addiction wasn’t getting arrested, going to prison or losing custody of her children.
The bottom came when Snow-Fly was in California several years ago, on the back end of a 5-month meth bender during
At age 60, madness of meth still haunts woman
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – In addiction parlance, it’s often said that an alcoholic or drug user must “hit rock bottom” before they can finally lift themselves to sobriety.
For Teresa Peratt of Sioux Falls, the trauma throughout her life was so great – and her addiction and drug use so
Hot Springs woman hid addiction but found misery
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – Throughout her 10-year addiction to methamphetamines, Valerie Henry always told herself she was better than the other hard-core meth addicts she encountered.
Born and raised in a middle-class family in the tourism town of Hot Springs, S.D., Henry was brought up with a strong moral