In Tom Lawrence's readworthy series on big dairies in South Dakota, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer claims he finds no evidence of illegal immigration arrests at South Dakota dairies. This kind of incompetence and falsehood from a government official…
Posts tagged as “crime”
Well, Ron Volesky won't be joining the primary against Kristi Noem... or running for any other office again, ever: A Huron defense lawyer and politician will spend three days in jail for assaulting an elderly woman with a belt last…
Dickinson, North Dakota, police report a 400% increase in burglary investigations, a 300% increase in assault and sex crimes, and a 200% increase in property crime investigations. Mayor Dennis Johnson blames the oil boom and says the city is hiring…
In 1986, Dallas R. Krausch was convicted of sexual contact with a twelve-year-old female. For this heinous crime, Krausch now lives with the following restrictions on his liberty: His name, photograph, and address are listed on the state sex offender…
Dr. Newquist alarmed me Friday with statistics that show a 16% increase in law enforcement officer fatalities so far this year over last. This increase struck me as incongruous with new statistics showing that, in 2010, violent crime in general…
I will not cheer the death penalty. If Judge Bradley Zell sends Eric Robert to the electric chair, I will not say, "Let him die," certainly not with enthusiasm. But Eric Robert's own cold courtroom confession to the murder of…
Rapid City mayoral candidate Sam Kooiker and his supporters have made great hay out of exposing fraud in city government. Referring to allegations of fraud at the city landfill, former mayor Keith Carlyle says in a May 16 endorsement letter,…
My distaste for the college fraternity system stems from deep suspicion of hierarchical exclusivity. These good-old-boy networks in training seem to thrive on demeaning new members and non-members. But I'm lucky. I went to SDSU, where the Greek presence was…