South Dakota 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...

U.S. researchers said initial results of their study on clergy sex abuse shows a decline in such cases in the United States after 1985. John Jay College of Criminal Justice researchers said in an interim report while sexual abuse cases...

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...

Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka, who toured the area on Tuesday, reportedly heard residents complain that their water had been cut off without warning. Shiceka subsequently warned that national government would have to intervene if the city and province failed...

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...