News Headlines for Alpena, South Dakota

Rounds: Economic downturn being felt across South Dakota (Black Hills Pioneer)
PIERRE    The economic crisis on Wall Street and the political wrangling over it in Washington, D.C., are being felt in South Dakota, Gov. Mike Rounds said Friday.

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Search For South Dakota Fugitive Expands (KTIV Sioux City)
Law enforcers, in two Siouxland states, continue to search for an inmate, who escaped from a South Dakota prison, on Monday.

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Noble, Barden lead Cal Poly to 49-22 win over South Dakota (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
Ramses Barden had five catches for 158 yards and three touchdowns to set a new Cal Poly football career record for 100-yard receiving games, James Noble rushed 10 times for 109 yards and two touchdowns, inching closer to a couple records of his own, and the Mustangs defeated South Dakota 49-22 in the Great West Football Conference opener for both teams at Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Saturday. ...

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South Dakota FFA National Officer Candidate (Tri-State Neighbor)
Ag Directory South Dakota ag business directory. Nuts & Bolts Quaterly manufacturer product directory.

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Spearfish Woman Wins Spirit of Dakota Award (Rapid City Journal)
Elaine Doll-Dunn of Spearfish has won the 2008 Spirit of Dakota award. The annual award recognizes women of distinction throughout South Dakota.

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UNL students fight South Dakota abortion ban (Daily Nebraskan)
Seven University of Nebraska-Lincoln students traveled to South Dakota over the weekend to volunteer on behalf of the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families, the main abortion rights group opposing Initiated Measure 11. They spent the weekend talking with undecided voters through banking phones, canvassing neighborhoods and holding signs at a busy intersection.

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South Dakota to vote again on abortion (Daily Nebraskan)
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-day series looking at South Dakota's Initiated Measure 11, a proposed ban on non-medical abortions in the state. The series will look at the bill itself and University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who traveled to protest it.

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Cal Poly football: Fullerton helps Mustangs end turnover drought in home win over South Dakota (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
David Fullerton waded through Ramses Barden’s waiting autograph seekers with a neck that looked like it’d been raked over with a garden cultivator. Barden caught five passes for 158 yards and three touchdowns in the Cal Poly football team’s 49-22 win over South Dakota on Saturday and eventually held a post-game audience with reporters hanging audio recorders and microphones over the heads of a ...

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Farm Rescue Expands In South Dakota (Yankton Press & Dakotan)
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) — Farm Rescue is using a $50,000 grant from Wal-Mart to expand operations in South Dakota.

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Downed cougar trekked 900 km from South Dakota (Ottawa Citizen)
A police investigation into a cougar sighting in the city’s west side this morning has ended with the animal being killed.

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