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A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager accused of defrauding a bank was incompetent and in over his head, a plant employee testified Monday. Chaim Abrahams, a purchasing manager at Agriprocessors Inc., testified for the defense during Sholom Rubashkin's federal fraud...

Developers of a $1.6 billion electric power plant in northeastern South Dakota abandoned the project Monday, saying they were unable to recruit other investors after one of the principal utility backers pulled out. The Big Stone II plant, planned for...

Just when you thought technology couldn't get any more controversial, a new dating sim call Love Plus has taken cheating to a whole new realm of possibilities. Complaints about the new sim include wives voicing their frustrations with the new...

These days, with economies stretched to the limit and people cutting back on everything from designer label clothing to brand-name toilet paper, trying to help out a favorite cause may seem like an impossibility. But helping out your best-loved non-profit...

The former manager of an Iowa kosher meat empire faces back-to-back trials on allegations of bank fraud and harboring illegal immigrants, officials said. Jury selection was to began Tuesday in the bank fraud trial of Sholom Rubashkin, charged with allegedly...

No one goes so far as to declare West Nile virus no longer poses a public health threat in South Dakota. Still, cases involving the mosquito-borne disease suddenly have dwindled, nearly as quickly as the deadly epidemic of West Nile...

When Brendan Johnson, a 34-year-old Sioux Falls lawyer, applied for the post of U.S. attorney for South Dakota last January, he made one thing clear to a local paper: His father, Sen. Tim Johnson, would have nothing to do with...

S.D. — A former kosher slaughterhouse manager accused of defrauding a bank had the final say on financial reports, a former chief financial officer testified Monday. Mitchell Meltzer said the manager, Sholom Rubashkin, allowed him to shift expenses to hide...