Brookings County News

A Brookings woman was arrested Sunday after a chase with a Brookings County Sheriff's deputy.

An Arlington teenager was injured in a rollover accident in western Brookings County Monday morning.

Brookings County Commission Chairman Don Larson expressed his concern about cap and trade legislation last Tuesday to a representative of U.S. Sen.

A 22-year-old Brookings man has admitted to charges that he was in possession last April of videos depicting child pornography .

Officials say a house fire in Volga was determined to have been caused by a young child playing with a lighter.

Brookings firefighters extinguished a half-acre grass fire in southern Brookings County on Tuesday afternoon.

On 10/20/09 at about 12:12 PM Brookings dispatch received a report of an Elevator Fire at AgFirst Coop in Aurora, SD.

The Brookings County Commission adopted the county's 2010 annual budget Tuesday.

The Brookings County Commission will hold a work session Monday before deciding on Tuesday whether to cooperate with the city on a joint administrative facility.

With news that the H1N1 virus had arrived at the campus of South Dakota State University in Brookings, local preparedness planners last week received proof that their work really is making a difference.

Both sides in a lawsuit, filed by three local bars against the City of Brookings, gave oral arguments Monday in Brookings County Circuit Court.

The Brookings County Commission will seek proposals from architectural firms for construction of an administrative facility south of the Brookings County Detention Center.

He's one of the most wanted men in Brookings County. 50-year-old Gerald Eldon Gosmire is wanted for failure to appear after release on felony insufficient funds check.

A Brookings man accused of breaking into a mobile home last month and threatening the man who lived there has pleaded not guilty to one count of first-degree burglary.

A bomb threat shut down the Volga Post Office at 7 a.m. Friday. The Brookings County Sheriff's office was called after the Volga postmaster found a note inside the post office indicating a bomb would going off in the building at a certain time.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 08/20/2009 7:08 AM The results of this month's referenda in Brookings and Howard offer a lesson for all politicians and organizations on the value of transparency.

Fredrick Reitsma was sentenced today for two counts of molesting a child under the age of thirteen.

Someone stole nearly $1,000 worth of property from an unlocked vehicle near Lake Campbell last week.

A judge sentenced 69-year-old Frederick Reitsma of Brookings to 20 years in prison today for his guilty pleas to sexual contact with two girls; ages 6 and 7. Multimedia The prosecutor tells Action News he doesn't feel much remorse for sending an elderly man to prison, saying Reitsma knew what he did and knew it was wrong.

A judge sentenced 69-year-old Frederick Reitsma of Brookings to 20 years in prison today for his guilty pleas to sexual contact with two girls; ages 6 and 7. Multimedia The prosecutor tells Action News he doesn't feel much remorse for sending an elderly man to prison, saying Reitsma knew what he did and knew it was wrong.