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It depends on how you count them, but we've added up at least four Powerball tickets that have been big winners in the state.

Some lucky person bought a Powerball ticket worth $232 million in the south-central South Dakota town of Winner.

The Gregory Legion will hold their Memorial Day program at the Gregory Auditorium today at 11:00am. The Dallas Legion Memorial Day program will be held at the Dallas Legion Hall at 10:00am. The Wood Lake Post 202 will hold their Memorial Day services on Sunday, May 24th at 2:30 at the Wood Lake Cemetary.

A Dallas, S.D, woman pleaded guilty on Monday to embezzling more than $244,000 between Jan.

Rebecca Jo Jacobsen pleaded guilty in federal court in Pierre to knowingly and willfully embezzling from a health care provider.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed South Dakota native Dallas Tonsager as undersecretary for rural development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Property and casualty insurance rates have declined 25 percent to 50 percent the past four years but are near or at the bottom of the market now, local insurance agents say.

AT&T Inc. said Friday it will buy the assets of Verizon Wireless in 79 mainly rural areas for $2.35 billion, a deal that will affect more than 1 million subscribers.

We have seen conflicting reports on the oil refinery at Elk Point near Vermillion, also known as the Gorilla Project.

Hyperion has said it's the key to unlock the biggest project in South Dakota history.

Opponents outnumbered supporters more than two-to-one while addressing the state Board of Minerals and Environment Wednesday and today on whether Union County needs or wants an oil refinery.

ELK POINT - Enter Union County on Interstate 29 and nailed to a fencepost is a plywood sign imploring people to vote no on Hyperion - a faded remnant in the battle to bring an oil refinery to southeastern South Dakota.

An executive proposing a $10 billion oil refinery for southeastern South Dakota says the project continues to move forward despite an economic downturn that has zapped crude oil prices and tightened credit markets.

Plans to build an oil refinery in Union County are on track, Hyperion Resources officials say.

Bill Serr already has signed papers allowing a large and sometimes controversial company to survey his land for a potential pipeline that may stretch from Canada to southern Nebraska.

The South Dakota Corn Growers Association recently presented the following awards: Bob Metz, a producer from Browns Valley, received the Excellence in Agriculture Award; Dallas Tonsager of the Farm Credit Administration was awarded the Most Valuable Player in Agriculture Award; Sen.

The Dallas, SD Volunteer Fire Department will celebrate their new fire hall with an open house.

Oldham native Dallas Tonsager has been nominated by President Obama to be under secretary of agriculture for rural development.

Sioux Falls doesn't have everything Dallas does. I was given tickets to the South Dakota Symphony on a recent Saturday night.

Dale Jans of Sioux Falls was commissioned Central Zone vice president of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying at the organization's annual meeting.