Mitchell police are investigating a rollover crash that occurred around 5 p.m. Thursday at Fourth Avenue and Davison Street. A Pontiac Bonneville overturned after colliding with another vehicle. Witnesses reported a Native American male with black hair, wearing a black shirt and pants, fled the scene on foot, heading west through a nearby alley.
Two South Dakotans with some bumps in their past have officially been cleared to serve in law enforcement. On Wednesday, the state’s Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Training Commission gave the green light to Patrick Iyotte and Ashley Yellow Bull after separate hearings. Iyotte, now a deputy in Todd County, came clean about a 2019 crash where alcohol, THC, and cocaine were involved.
MITCHELL, S.D. (MITCHELLNOW) – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Hughes County Sheriff […]
U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) advanced major housing priorities for South Dakota during a bipartisan Senate Banking Committee markup, securing the inclusion of four of his bills in the Road to Housing Act. This marks the first significant update to the USDA’s Rural Housing Service in over a decade.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol will conduct sobriety checkpoints in 13 counties throughout August—including Minnehaha, Pennington, Lincoln, and Davison—as part of a statewide effort to prevent drunk driving.
South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden has launched Operation Prairie Thunder, a major new public safety initiative that brings together local law enforcement, sheriff’s departments, the National Guard, the Department of Corrections, and federal agencies like ICE.
Just before 1 a.m. Sunday, Mitchell police responded to reports of a truck driving without headlights in the Activities Center parking lot on North Minnesota. The vehicle nearly struck parked cars and a squad car before the driver, who showed signs of impairment, was stopped.
Mariah Sazue, a former HR director for the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for embezzling over $44,000 through falsified timesheets.
Top South Dakota officials gathered at the Washington Pavilion for a public safety forum focused on a proposed $650 million men’s prison in Sioux Falls. The plan, endorsed by the Project Prison Reset task force, could double the city’s prison population and raise crime concerns.
ICE has confirmed an active investigation at Trail King Industries in Mitchell, South Dakota, amid increased federal immigration enforcement across the state. The probe follows recent worksite operations and a new 287(g) partnership with the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation.