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White Oak Closes Northern Beef Packers Buy

(In today's Freudian slip, I first type White Oaf.) White Oak Global Advisors from San Francisco announced yesterday that it finalized its acquisition of Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen. White Oak's press release (text below, as prepared by Sioux Falls…

Mark Black Fights Off Ex-Wife’s Protection Order Request, Loses DCI Job

In the Nobody Wins Department, Judge Eugene Dobberpuhl has denied Patricia Black's request for a permanent protection order against her husband, Division of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Black. To make her case and justify a temporary restraining order in February,…

Court Urges Lighter Punishment for Wife-Shoving DCI Agent

Suspended Department of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Black and aggrieved ex-wife Patricia Black had a day in court yesterday. Patricia Black filed for a protection order against her ex last month, accusing him of violent, threatening behavior. Mark Black admits…

Schwab Blows Whistle on Foster Care Abuse and State Abuse of Power

In January 2013, Judge Gene Paul Kean dismissed the state's flimsy case against of Shirley Schwab and Brandon Taliaferro for witness tampering and other charges. Last December, Judge Kean ordered the expungement five of the counts on which Taliaferro was…

Jackley Confirms: Violent DCI Agent on Administrative Leave

Scott Waltman reports that DCI agent Mark Black is temporarily out of a job: An Aberdeen-based state Division of Criminal Investigation agent whose former wife is seeking a protection order against him has been put on administrative leave, Attorney General…

Court Orders DCI Agent: Stop Harassing Wife, Turn in Gun

A South Dakota state law enforcement officer faces a protection order for harassing his ex-wife. On February 13, 2014, Patricia Ann Black of Aberdeen asked the court to keep her ex-husband Mark Robert Black away from her. Mark Black is…