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WASHINGTON - I always have felt that you could judge a person by how they treated animals.

A national organization representing small business tabs South Dakota as the friendliest place to be an entrepreneur.

South Dakota is the friendliest place to be an entrepreneur, according to a national small business organization.

South Dakota State is working with the four infected students and their roommates, but has not issued any type of campus wide warning to classmates of the infected students.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy recently released its third annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, which ranks U.S. states according to adoption and implementation of energy efficiency policies.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 CONTACT : Mary Stadick Smith, 773-7228, mary.stadicksmith@state.sd.us South Dakota students fare well on Nation's Report Card PIERRE, S.D. South Dakota's 8th-grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress ranked among some of the highest in the nation in 2009.

Some Aberdeen lawmakers say they wonder whether talk about closing one of South Dakota's six state-run universities will be revived once economic stimulus money runs out.

A retired astronaut warned South Dakota health workers Thursday that both U.S. space shuttle disasters teach lessons about compromising standards that all businesses must understand.

Recent student suicides have parents and advocates complaining that anti-bullying laws enacted in nearly every state are not being enforced and do not go far enough to identify and rid schools of chronic tormentors.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 09/17/2009 8:11 AM KELO declares South Dakota a tax haven for retirees .

SIOUX FALLS - Someone in South Dakota is $200,000 richer. Someone bought a Powerball ticket in South Dakota that matched the first five numbers but not the Powerball in Saturday night's drawing.

Farm land in South Dakota isn't changing much, but taxes paid on it could. The price for Ag land used to be based on the market, or what it would sell for.

A central Florida woman heading home from a South Dakota motorcycle rally has died in a crash on Interstate 70 in Missouri.

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Though Americans remain cautious about the future course of the U.S. economy, they are much more optimistic in 2009 than they were in 2008.

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South Dakota tied for second in one part of the annual Kids Count report on the health and well-being of America's youth, which measures the states in 10 categories.

An appeals court on Friday refused to reinstate the Oglala Sioux Tribe's lawsuit that sought to prevent the federal government from transferring thousands of acres of land along the Missouri River to the state.

As we all know, the bank credit card business is an important part of our city and state's economy.

Governor Mike Rounds says South Dakota's top spot in a new ranking of state tax systems' costs for small businesses and entrepreneurs is not a surprise.