Hughes County News

Firefighters spent about an hour at the site of the new Hughes County Jail east of Pierre after a natural gas line broke about 40 feet from the new building.

A Pierre man accused of raping a teenage boy is scheduled to be sentenced in January, after pleading guilty to two of the counts he faced.

A Harrold man who has racked up eight drunk driving convictions has been sentenced to five years in the South Dakota State Penitentiary.

South Dakota's battle over a smoking ban will make its way into a courtroom Tuesday.

A hearing is set for Tuesday in Hughes County. That's when a judge is expected to rule on several motions that were filed from both sides of the lawsuit.

A Pierre man who represented himself in court has been cleared by a Hughes County jury of a charge that he hit a man over the head with a baseball bat.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says his office is providing $25,000 that will be used to install audio and visual recording equipment in the new Hughes County jail, which is nearing completion in Pierre.

Both Hyperion and local opposition groups will appeal the South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment's Aug.

Six years after their release, ankle bracelets that monitor alcohol consumption are being used in 48 states, and last week survived what the company said was its first appeals court challenge.

A board that hadn't met for 13 years was revived for a rail project. The Hughes County Regional Rail Authority, a pass-through entity for railroad project funding, had not met since September 17, 1996.

A man from the central South Dakota town of Blunt is accused of raping a 10-year-old girl.

He is the former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping two of his former foster daughters.

He is the former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping two of his former foster daughters.

He is the former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping two of his former foster daughters.

Attorney General Larry Long announces that a stay has been entered in the Hughes county circuit court delaying indefinitely the effective date of the smoking ban.

South Dakota's statewide ban on smoking is headed to a courtroom - probably within a month - as bar and gaming facility owners successfully won a stay Monday in Hughes County Circuit Court.

Attorney General Larry Long says that a stay has been entered in the Hughes county circuit court delaying indefinitely the effective date of the smoking ban.

A judge has granted a fourth evaluation for a Pierre man who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in a child molestation case.

West Nile cases could be down in South Dakota this year even though mosquito populations will be higher than in dry years, state officials and researchers say.

South Dakota has a second human case of West Nile virus. It's in Charles Mix County along the Nebraska border.