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Latest South Dakota News

Networks, AP sue in South Dakota over exit polling (AP)
AP - The three major networks, CNN, Fox News and The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal judge to strike down a South Dakota law that prevents exit polling within 100 feet of a voting place.

On this day in 1973, armed supporters of the American Indian Movement surrendered to federal officials at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ending a 70-day siege. What else happened?
1429: During the Hundred Years' War, the siege of Orléans ends when French troops led by 17-year-old Joan of Arc drive the English from the city. 1794: Antoine Lavoisier, French scientist who is considered the founder of modern chemistry, is guillotined

Clinton says Obama's support among working, white Americans has diminished
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota: Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Barack Obama's support among working, white Americans has diminished. Her fresh comments about race dogged her Thursday as she pressed on with her struggling candidacy. Her voice raspy, her

Clinton asks supers to commit in private (Politico)

Politico - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Capitol Hill this week may have been more about weighing her support than it was about wooing superdelegates.

Clinton asks superdelegates to commit to her privately (Politico)

Politico - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Capitol Hill this week may have been more about weighing her support than it was about wooing superdelegates.

Clinton campaign presses on with visits to 3 states today (AP)

AP - Hillary Clinton is pushing on in her race for the Democratic White House bid, despite calls to drop out. She has events scheduled today in the upcoming primary states of Oregon, South Dakota and West Virginia. Barack Obama will be in Washington today.

Kansas high court limits grand jury's power in abortion case (AP)

AP - The state's highest court Tuesday allowed a grand jury to keep investigating one of the few U.S. doctors who performs late-term abortions but limited its power to subpoena his patients' records.

America's Community Bankers Elects Hage, Taylor, Zuppe To Top Posts
About Us Compliance Center Commercial Banking Publications News Center News Releases For Immediate Release: November 07, 2001 Press Release Number: NEW ORLEANS - Curtis L. Hage, a South Dakota community banker, has been elected chairman of

Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x
of a report by the US Geological Survey on the Bakken Formation. This is an oil field covering 200,000 square miles and underlying parts of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. A geologist who began surveying the field, before dying in

Man accused of rampage with snow shovel (AP)
AP - A South Dakota man faces three felony charges after he allegedly got drunk and went on a rampage with a snow shovel at a Bismarck gas station.

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Introduction
South Dakota became the United States fortieth state on November 2, 1889, together with North Dakota. The capital is Pierre. Dakota is a Sioux word meaning "allies". Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota, as is the prairie that was made famous in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. News anchor Tom Brokaw was born and raised in South Dakota. The Prairie State ranks 16th in land size totaling 75,896 square miles.

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