A federal judge in Pierre this week sentenced two more former officials of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in a case in which six tribal officials have admitted embezzling about $1 million from the tribe's bank accounts. U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange on Monday sentenced Roxanne Sazue, former chairwoman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe at Fort Thompson, to five months in custody and two years of supervised probation for being part of the embezzlement scheme. Lange also ordered Sazue, who is 63, to...

A federal judge in Pierre this week sentenced two more former officials of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in in a case which six tribal officials have admitted embezzling about $1 million from the tribe's bank accounts. U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange on Monday sentenced Roxanne Sazue, former chairwoman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe at Fort Thompson, to five months in custody and two years of supervised probation for being part of the embezzlement scheme. Lange also ordered Sazue, who is 63, to...

Some airlines have reported a loss of 90% to 95% of revenue and even greater loss of passengers. JetBlue has gone from seeing 100,000 passengers a day to about 3,000, its CEO told The Wall Street Journal earlier this month. United Express, operated by SkyWest has seen its passenger numbers plummet from 1,291 passengers in January and 1,281 in February, to 871 in March and 59 in April. The pandemic froze most air traffic from concerns about the coronavirus passing from person-to-person in the...

It was Alma Buechler Day in Pierre and across South Dakota and they threw a party for her at Maryhouse, the senior residence where she lives across the street from Avera St. Mary’s, with balloons and a parade of well-wishers. She turned 108 on Wednesday, May 20, and as a second-oldest person in South Dakota, she deserved a day of it all. Like so many living in senior homes, Alma has gotten lonely during the COVID-19 pandemic, with visits banned and not able to see the many family members who...

“He wanted to be able to be open for this weekend,” Commissioner Norm Weaver said about the special meeting for the resort/marina setting 17 miles northwest of Pierre and Fort Pierre, via Highway 1804 to the shore of Lake Oahe. Weaver was talking about Jeremey Frost, who was on a conference call Friday morning with the county commission, which approved transferring two licenses from the state Game, Fish and Parks to Frost Enterprises doing business as Spring Creek restaurant and bar. “We’re...