Pine Ridge

PINE RIDGE (AP) — The U.S. Attorney's Office in South Dakota is going to hold weekly office hours on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The federal prosecutors say they'll be on the reservation each Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The goal is to give citizens better access and ease...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The owners of four Nebraska beer stores that sell millions of cans of beer each year near a South Dakota Indian reservation are appealing a state regulator's decision not to renew their liquor licenses. The appeal filed late Monday in Lancaster County District...

PORCUPINE (AP) — A man accused in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has pleaded not guilty to federal charges. An FBI statement filed in court says Kison Robertson shot Urva Quick Bear Sr. in a fight over a financial disagreement. Quick Bear survived a gunshot to the...

RAPID CITY (AP) — Court documents show a former corrections officer plans to plead guilty in a fatal distracted driving case on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Sophia Janis, of Porcupine, has admitted to killing 58-year-old Theresa...

PINE RIDGE (AP) — The U.S. attorney for South Dakota is opening an office on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as part of a partnership among tribal, state and federal authorities to combat gun violence there. U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler says that starting next week, his attorneys...

RAPID CITY (AP) — A suspect in the fatal shooting of a Pine Ridge man in October has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge. Twenty-three-year-old Myles Tuttle is accused in the death of 29-year-old Vincent Brewer III. He entered his plea Wednesday in federal court in...

RAPID CITY (AP) — A Wanblee man has pleaded guilty in a fatal stabbing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Leon Between Lodges admitted stabbing Leonard Sitting Up with a knife last May after the victim and his friends drove by the defendant's house and shouted comments which...

RAPID CITY (AP) — A Pine Ridge woman has pleaded guilty in the strangling death of another woman on the Indian reservation. Twenty-four-year-old Elizabeth Ann LeBeau pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and admitted to holding down Emily Bluebird's hands as she was being strangled...

RAPID CITY (AP) — A South Dakota man has pleaded guilty to failing to help an abused boy, then concealing his death from authorities. Forty-four-year-old Mitchell Wisecarver admitted in federal court Friday that he knew his wife, Lori Wisecarver, had been physically abusing 2-year-old...