Clear Lake News

South Dakota Lottery Contact: Kelly Thompson, 773-5770, or kelly.thompson@state.sd.us Two $10,000 lotto prizes to expire before 2010 The holiday season could be a little merrier for the lucky players who are holding the winning tickets for two unclaimed $10,000 lotto prizes.

Last Thursday, the State of South Dakota closed drivers exam stations in three cities: Beresford, Canton and Clear Lake as a way to ease strains on the state budget.

Areas of rain overnight have shifted east into MN and IAwhile new areas of rain have developed in eastern SD.

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says driver licensing stations will remain open in Mission and Wagner while 15 other sites are closed effective Thursday.

South Dakota Lottery Contact: Kelly Thompson, 773-5770, or kelly.thompson@state.sd.us Three $10,000 lotto prizes still unclaimed They may not be worth millions but three unclaimed $10,000 lotto prizes would still be a nice chunk of change for the lucky individuals holding the winning tickets.

South Dakota will close driver's license bureaus in 17 communities across the state, officials said today.

Nicholas Adam Olson, 26, of Clear Lake, S.D. pleaded guilty in Lyon County District Court Aug.

We coulda danced all night Doug and Mary Ann Gantvoort of Clear Lake, SD may not be groupies, but they do follow the a oeWhitesidewalls,a rock and roll band.

Grant-Deuel School Superintendent Grant VanderVorst says two-thirds of district residents responding to a recent survey are open to having the school board look into a four-day school week.

A Marshall, Minn., man died Monday night when his semi truck crashed in Deuel County, the South Dakota Highway Patrol said.

A fiery semitrailer crash in eastern South Dakota's Deuel County has killed the driver.

A Marshall, Minn., man died Monday night when his semi truck crashed in Deuel County, the South Dakota Highway Patrol said.

The Deuel County Sheriff's Office says the driver of a semi-tractor trailer is dead following an accident about eight miles east of Clear Lake on Highway 22.

Who says success comes with age? Randy Bjerkeset, of Clarkfield, is just 16 years of age and has already found success on the race track.

Robert Duke Courtney, 37, of Tracy appeared in custody in Lyon County District Court June 23 on charges of burglary in the first degree, trespass and criminal damage to property in the first file and charges of controlled substance crime in the fifth degree, theft and illegal possession of prescription pills in the second file.

It took three tries to hang Thomas Egan on July 13, 1882, in Sioux Falls for strangling his wife Mary, according to executedtoday.com. Egan was the first man to be hanged by state officers in the Dakota Territory.

South Dakota pork producers say a proposed measure for the government to buy $50 million in pork products for federal food programs could alleviate but not solve the problems of a struggling industry.

Six South Dakota educators will go on a 13-day educational tour of Turkey this summer.

Authorities have found the body of a Yankton, South Dakota, man missing on the Missouri River since May 15.

Clear Lake will be South Dakota's Capital for a Day on Wednesday. Gov. Mike Rounds and state agency leaders will hold activities throughout the day, including afternoon tours and meetings, followed by the Capital for a Day Expo featuring many state services and a community dinner with comments from Rounds.