Sioux Falls Politics News

Dunn, the White House communications director who created something of a stir when she asserted on CNN recently that FOX News is an "arm of the Republican Party'' and not really a news network in the traditional sense, also got...

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...

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...

But it doesn't take the place of a public option," Pelosi told reporters Thursday.   Pelosi has said that the House bill will include some form of a government-run "public option" to compete with private plans. So, if a cooperative...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is scheduled to make her first appearance in Iowa since the 2008 presidential campaign with a stop in Sioux City Dec...However, Republican Party officials were unaware of any political plans in the works Monday, when...

An employee at an eastern Iowa slaughterhouse testified Wednesday that Sholom Rubashkin asked her to produce an "extremely large" number of fake sales records in May 2008, the same month federal immigration agents raided the plant. Darlis Hendry told jurors...

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...