Safe driving urged during Labor Day weekend
PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Mike Rounds is asking motorists to use extra caution on South Dakota highways during the Labor Day travel weekend.
Applicants sought for Aurora panel vacancy
PLANKINTON — Applicants are being sought for a vacancy for District 3 commissioner in Aurora County after that person was recently hired as the new county highway superintendent.
DWU, MTI enrollments inch upward
Mitchell’s two post-secondary schools — Dakota Wesleyan University and Mitchell Technical Institute — are both open for business, each with small increases in student enrollment.
Gulf oil rig explodes off La. coast
GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) — An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
Pharmaceutical company Allergan to pay $600 million for off label marketing of botox
PIERRE, S.D.- Attorney General Marty Jackley announced on September 1, 2010, that the State of South Dakota joined the federal government and other states to reach an agreement in principle with pharmaceutical manufacturer, Allergan, Inc., and Allergan USA, Inc. to settle allegations of improper off-label marketing of the drug Botox. As a result, Allergan will pay the states and the federal government $225 million dollars, of which $33 million dollars is for Medicaid nationwide.
Mitchell Police Log for 9/1/10
Mitchell Police Department
CAD Press Log 9/2/2010
From: 9/1/2010 to 9/1/2010
City slightly over budget as mosquito counts fall
Mitchell’s Parks and Recreation Department is barely over its budget for mosquito control this year.
That’s not too bad, since the city was bombarded with the winged bloodsuckers this spring and summer, according to Dusty Rodiek, director of the department.
“We’re slightly over our mosquito budget,” Rodiek said. “I still have to figure in some staffing.”
Wagner adds on to school
WAGNER — Wagner students will eat meals in the larger confines of a new cafeteria this fall.
Wagner School District is building a 15,000-square-foot cafeteria, kitchen and lobby onto the front of its K-12 building, Superintendent Susan Smit said.
Employees have been using a small kitchen to serve 1,300 meals a day in the 35-year-old building. Students and staff eat in the gym.
Local jury awards $500,000 in nursing home suit
Two sons of a woman who died a month after receiving injuries while a resident of Firesteel Healthcare Center in 2006 were awarded $500,000 by a local jury Wednesday.
Layne L. Bumgardner, Clifton Park, N.Y., and David W. Bumgardner, Mitchell, were awarded $400,000 for their claim of wrongful death and $100,000 for their survivor claim against Gates Health Services Inc. The lawsuit stemmed from events surrounding the death of the brothers’ mother, Helen L. Bumgardner.
State Fair 125th: Fair’s history includes stops in Mitchell, other cities
It was Mitchell’s time to shine, a chance to show off the growth of the city.
“Mitchell will have the grandest opportunity of her life, next week, to make a good impression on the outside world and should do everything to improve it,” wrote the city’s newspaper, which at that time was The Daily Republican.
The event that was so trumpeted by the newspaper was the third Dakota Territorial Fair, held in Mitchell Sept. 26-20, 1887. It was the forerunner of the South Dakota State Fair, which celebrates its 125th anniversary today through Monday.
Area farm among those to be honored as quasquicentennial farms at ceremony today
HOWARD — The South Dakota State Fair isn’t the only thing marking a 125th anniversary.
Dozens of farms that are still owned by relatives of the first farmers from 125 years ago will be recognized at the State Fair today in Huron. The inaugural Quasquicentennial Farm Families recognition ceremony will be held at 11:00 this morning.
The State Fair had its “preview night” Wednesday and officially opens today, with a schedule that runs through Monday.
Discovery gunman shot dead; 3 hostages safe
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Police shot and killed a man upset with the Discovery Channel network's programming who took two employees and a security officer hostage at the company's headquarters Wednesday, officials said. All three hostages escaped safely.
Police: Man holds hostages in Discovery building (with video)
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A man upset with the Discovery Channel's environmental programming took several people hostage at the company's headquarters Wednesday, officials said.
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South Dakota's Great Faces: James 'Scotty' Philip
PIERRE, S.D. – James “Scotty” Philip is known as the man who helped save the American bison from extinction in the 1900s. For this, he is one of South Dakota’s Great Faces.
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