IPSWICH, S.D. (AP) – Residents of the northeastern South Dakota town of Ipswich are using a mobile post office while the permanent building is fixed. KELO-TV reports that the regular post office was closed because of a leaking roof and other damage. For a while, people in the area had to make a 50-mile round...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A plan for several rural South Dakota school districts to share staff and hold more classes online will proceed more slowly than some had hoped. Platte-Geddes Superintendent Dennis Goodwin had proposed that his school district and those nearby join forces with shared teachers and a single superintendent to save...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – The beef-processing company that makes the product that critics call “pink slime” continues to struggle more than a year after the initial stories on the lean bits of beef that Beef Products Inc. produced. The Sioux City Journal reports the Dakota Dunes, S.D., based company lost 80 percent of its...

MILLER, S.D. – (DRG News) Authorities in Hand County are asking for assistance from the public in searching for an elderly Pierre man who has been missing since early this morning.  Leroy Nye is in his early 80’s, suffers from dementia and is very confused.  He was in St. Lawrence visiting family and was...