By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
outh Dakota teachers are now allowed by law to carry guns in the classroom, a new law says.
Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.
Sitting atop a 6-foot wall of white sandbags hastily stacked to protect his Fort Pierre, S.D., home from the rising Missouri River, Helmet Reuer, 82, doesn't buy the official explanation that heavy rains caused a sudden flood threat.
South Dakota's governor has urged some residents to evacuate from three cities considered early trouble spots as officials brace for a prolonged period of Missouri River flooding.
People were shocked when federal prosecutors charged the owners of a motel in Oacoma, S.D., a town of fewer than 500, with keeping Philippine women in virtual slavery, forcing them to work 20-hour days under the threat of violence and taking back their paychecks after they had been endorsed to deposit in their own accounts.
Three cheers for South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard ("South Dakota sets 3-day wait for abortions," Nation, Wednesday). Many pregnant mothers, especially teenagers, aren't fully informed of the procedures involved in an abortion and what will happen to their unborn child when it is killed.
Dozens of bills are advancing through statehouses nationwide that would put an array of new obstacles — legal, financial and psychological — in the paths of women seeking abortions.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law Tuesday requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation.
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, turned back a challenge from Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. on Tuesday, but Republicans still appeared on track to achieve their 2010 goal of retaking a majority of the nation's governorships.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard said he hoped the
are warranted," Mr. Daugaard said in a statement.
