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Across the country, anti-abortion ballot measures were defeated and minimum wage increases passed in six states. The punitive ban on abortion in South Dakota, with no exceptions except to "prevent the death" of the woman, was defeated 56 to 44 percent.
Thomasin and Franni Franken, daughter and wife of U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken, talked with former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern as he signed books after he spoke at a kickoff rally for a state campaign against hunger.
Incumbent Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin broke the $1 million fundraising mark last month in her campaign for a fourth term as South Dakota's lone representative in the House, second-quarter campaign finance reports show. And Sen. Tim Johnson, a Democrat who's also up for re-election this year, has raised a total of $5.1 million, about the same amount he raised at this juncture during ...
SanDisk has created the first write-once SD memory card after over a year of talking about it. The WORM (Write Once Read Many) cards cannot be altered or deleted and are designed for information that...
PIERRE -- When Frances M. Stiles Lamont passed away earlier this month, South Dakota lost a modern revolutionary....
Health Care for America Now launched the South Dakota piece of its $40 million, 44-state campaign for health-care reform Tuesday at a news conference in Sioux Falls.
Politics surprised one of South Dakota's election experts this year....
WASHINGTON - South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune voted Wednesday against legislation that would avert payment cuts to physicians treating seniors, disabled people and military families, saying Democrats had turned the issue into an election-year political game. The vote was 69-30, two votes more than the number needed to override President Bush's threatened veto. South Dakota's Democratic ...
Conservative syndicated columnist and author Ann Coulter, threw her support behind State Distict 17 Senate Republican candidate Austen Furse on Thursday....
While South Dakota Democrats are confident in this election cycle, the worst thing they can do as fall approaches is to take their candidates for granted, a party official said Thursday in Huron.
Terry DeVine and I worked together in Pierre for The Associated Press for little more than a year, but what an incredible year it was. In the spring of 1972, DeVine joined me. He was a Watertown kid, Marine Corps veteran and South Dakota State University graduate. He arrived just in time for the primary election. A former football player, he had a crushed-rock voice and a chest like a beer keg. ...
