Brown County News

The city of Claremont, SD is having some trouble with washed out roads. Multimedia Watch The Video Claremont is located 37 miles northeast of Aberdeen.

Road repair crews in northeastern South Dakota have been behind schedule for much of the year because of precipitation.

The Brown County Sheriff's Department is investigating the death of a rural Groton boy.

Apparently more South Dakotans feel the need to express themselves on the road. Whether it's an outlet of creativity or old-fashioned vanity, personalized license plates are up 16 percent this year from 2008.

A Brown County child died at home this afternoon as the result of an accident involving a multitool.

An Aberdeen family is devastated because right now it looks like they will lose their home to flood water.

Two Domino's Pizza workers in Aberdeen are being credited with helping catch an escaped prisoner.

Brown County authorities are now offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of an escapee.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, was in Brown County today touring flood damage and speaking at a town hall meeting with Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin.

Aberdeen-area authorities are still searching for a burglar they say faked an illness and escaped while at a local hospital.

South Dakota's third-largest fair drew 1½ percent more visitors this year compared to 2008.

As harvest approaches, some northeast South Dakota fields look eerily similar to last year.

Authorities are investigating allegations of embezzlement at Safe Harbor in Aberdeen.

ABERDEEN - Officials say spring flooding might have done as much as $2 million in damage to infrastructure in Brown County, and another $2 million might be needed to cover crop losses.

ABERDEEN - Officials say spring flooding might have done as much as $2 million in damage to infrastructure in Brown County, and another $2 million might be needed to cover crop losses.

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 former Aberdeen day-care worker convicted of child abuse had to be resentenced so that she can appeal her conviction.

Brown County will have its fair next week in Aberdeen and commuters could run into a few road blocks.

According to Brown County records, Northern Beef Packers, which is building a beef processing plant south of Aberdeen, has not paid $62,000 in property taxes due April 30.

Posted by: Ken Blanchard - 08/03/2009 10:48 PM This evening I was watching a recorded news cast when the U.S. Government took over my TV.