Recreational marijuana backers can gather signatures for North Dakota ballot initiative A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall, the state’s top election official said Thursday, in ... 04/25/2024 - 11:39 am | View Link
Group hopes voters approve tax rollback that failed in the legislature The group TakeItBack delivered 25,000 petition signatures to the South Dakota Secretary of State's office Wednesday in hopes of getting the elimination of state grocery taxes ... 04/24/2024 - 9:33 am | View Link
Man gets 37 years for carjacking, kidnapping FBI employee in South Dakota One of three people convicted of carjacking and kidnapping an FBI employee in South Dakota has been sentenced to 37 years in prison. Juan Alvarez-Sorto, 25, was sentenced Friday in federal court ... 04/16/2024 - 7:33 am | View Link
Third South Dakota tribal nation bans Noem from reservation The South Dakota governor is now banned from about 10 percent of the land in the state she governs, CNN noted. In a video posted to social platform X, Noem announced Thursday that she was offering ... 04/11/2024 - 5:39 pm | View Link
South Dakota What is now South Dakota was among the northern Plains land claimed by the French and sold to the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. South Dakota Man Sentenced to Nearly 90 Years in Prison ... 12/7/2022 - 8:27 am | View Link
Although Donald Trump complains that his criminal trial keeps him off the campaign trail, he spent Wednesday — the day when court isn’t scheduled — playing golf and not campaigning, CNN reports.
Critics say the justice should not judge Trump's election-subversion case, because his wife supported overturning the election, attended Trump's Jan6 rally.
“The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to restore ‘net neutrality’ rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and Verizon from favoring some sites and apps over others,” the AP reports.
“The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration.
“Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation that could lead to the prosecution of librarians under the state’s obscenity law for providing minors with ‘harmful’ materials,” The Hill reports.