Todd County News

In this rural area where cows outnumber people, folks do whatever they can to help one another.

CBS) In Todd County, South Dakota, one of the nation's poorest places, the Wanless family struggled more than most.

The tiny, rural South Dakota town where lucky lottery cowboy Neal Wanless lives is Bob Barker's childhood home -- but it's not a place where people are used to being told to "come on down" for big windfalls.

If this were a movie, nobody would believe it: A rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of America claimed one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history Friday _ $232 million _ after buying the ticket in a town by the name of Winner.

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A 23-year-old South Dakota man has been indicted for involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 60-year-old White River man.

South Dakota's average age ticked up again from 2000 to 2008, its estimated Hispanic population almost doubled and Shannon County is listed in three national rankings, according to state and county population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

President Obama wants to close 5,000 "chronically underperforming" schools and reopen them with new teachers and principals.

School officials from as far away as Texas were in Sioux Falls on Wednesday hoping to lure teaching candidates at the annual South Dakota Teacher Job Fair.

According to the 2005 U.S. Census, Ziebach's child poverty rate sits at 70.1%. Other South Dakota counties are close behind-- Todd County ranks 5th in the nation at 58.7%, and Corson sits at 7th with 57.8%. To make matters worse, studies show that students in low-income communities achieve three grade levels behind their peers in high-income ...

The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch in effect until 10 p.m. CDT for much of southeastern KELOLAND, including the city of Sioux Falls.

Dear President Obama, I want to personally thank you for the $3 billion in direct funding and $500 million more in bonding authority you've given to Indian Country in your $787 billion economic stimulus ...

The Region 3A Wrestling Tournament will be held this Saturday in Pierre. Wrestling starts at 10AM.

A Mission man has pleaded guilty to a charge he fondled a girl last summer when he was a tribal police officer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Hidden away in South Dakota's deep canyons, rolling hills and vast timberland, young Sioux children wade through snow drifts in -35 degree weather.

Winner @ Todd County Tonight on Magic 93 catch Girls High School Basketball between Winner and Todd County.

A Mission man accused of assaulting another man with an ax has pleaded not guilty.

It sounds like the same song, third verse. For the third time in about three years, a federal judge has ruled that the Todd County School District and administrators violated a student's Constitutional rights ...

After day one of the Stanley County Invite the Philip wrestlers lead with 117 points.