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In late September, Lutheran dissidents said they would hunker down for a year and study whether to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and create a new church body.

Not Perfect Yet by Steve Suther Ask anybody at the Marrs Ranch, Whitewood, S.D., and they'll tell you their cows have a long way to go.

Author and rancher Dan O'Brien will speak at 7:30 tonight in Kresge Recital Hall at Augustana College.

Opponents of a controversial decision last month to permit sexually active gay clergy in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are meeting in Indianapolis to consider options.

SD1st NewsMinute,0257 Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press RAPID CITY, S.D. A judge has handed down a unique sentence for two women accused of throwing rocks and eggs and yelling racial slurs at American Indians in Rapid City.

Judge A.P. Fuller also ordered them to do a4 leas4 100 hours of culturally sensitive community service, spend the five years on probation and mee4 with the victims and a mediator at the Center for Restorative Justice.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says an additional $172.5 million in federal stimulus money has been awarded for water and environmental projects across the country.

A judge has sided with a landowner in a dispute over railroad right of way from Deadwood to Whitewood in western South Dakota.

Church leaders hope a decision to allow sexually active homosexuals to serve in the clergy does not lead to a splintering of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination.

Church leaders hope a decision to allow sexually active homosexuals to serve in the clergy does not lead to a splintering of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination.

Title: ELCA Teens Told to Make Community Service a Way of Life ELCA NEWS SERVICE >July 23, 2009 ELCA Teens Told to Make Community Service a Way of Life 09-158-SH NEW ORLEANS -- A conga line snaked up and down the aisles on the main floor of the Louisiana Superdome.

Author Dan O'Brien will join the discussion when the History and Heritage Book Club meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.

A crumbling piece of history in one KOTA Territory town draws police barricades and questions about whether to tear it down.