A 53-year-old Sioux Falls man faces deportation more than 30 years after a teenage drug conviction. Vone Phrommany, who immigrated from Laos at age six, was detained by ICE in Arizona last month.
South Dakota’s two busiest airports are receiving more than $760,000 in state-approved funding through the Aeronautics Commission. Sioux Falls Regional Airport will receive nearly $350,000, while Rapid City Regional Airport gets about $413,000 to support its ongoing multi-million-dollar terminal expansion project.
Federal budget cuts are hitting South Dakota nonprofits hard, forcing layoffs, program reductions, and major funding losses. South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Feeding South Dakota, and the South Dakota Humanities Council are among the hardest hit, with some losing all federal support. SDPB is cutting a quarter of its staff, Feeding South Dakota is eliminating over a million meals, and the Humanities Council has already ended grant programs.
Authorities have issued an Endangered Missing Persons Advisory for 16-year-old Alyssa Marie Fortner, last seen Friday, August 22, in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. Officials say Fortner packed her belongings, turned off her phone, and left without vital medication. She is described as 5’6”, 180 pounds, with hazel eyes and brown hair, and may be traveling in a dark gray or black sedan with a broken rear taillight
Stocks are holding near breakeven in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as indexes hover just below their recent all-time highs.
Vietnam has evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and closed schools and airports as it braces for Typhoon Kajiki, its strongest storm of the year so far.
Cal Raleigh joined Mickey Mantle as the only switch-hitters to hit 50 homers in a season, and he became the eighth player in major league history to reach the half-century mark in August.
Cadillac played it safe with its first Formula 1 lineup, bypassing an American driver for series veterans Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez.
The Masters is making a rare change to its qualifying criteria by eliminating invitations to PGA Tour winners in the fall and joining the R&A in recognizing winners of six national opens on every main tour in the world.
Lil Nas X was charged Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.