House Bill 1061 poses a due-process quandary for conservatives. Representative Tim Reed (R-7/Brookings) offers this measure to allow victims of sexual assault to ask the…
Tag: crime
On January 10, I published a letter from convicted murderer Shane Bell describing the beginning of a typical day in the Jameson Annex of South…
A gasoline pipeline blew up in the Mexican state of Hidalgo last night, killing (as counted at the moment of this writing) 66 people. But…
House Bill 1050 sensibly updates and toughens up our credit card fraud statutes. Brought by Rep. Hugh Bartels (R-5/Watertown), HB 1050 revises the law in…
Lest all this Merry Christmas spirit goes to you Christians’ heads and makes you think you are special, let’s remember that professed piety appears not…
Becca Simon of my hometown paper notices that FBI data show South Dakota reported the lowest dollar amount of shoplifting in the nation in December…
The Koch Brothers and the ACLU are cheering the Senate for passing a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, the First Step Act, focusing on offering…
Back in July when Maria Butina, the gal he invited to speak to his Teenage Republican Camp in 2015 and praised as an “incredible” speaker,…
The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office is using Marsy’s Law to keep the public from learning which of its deputies shot and killed 19-year-old Matthew John…
One “heartbroken” Muslim has five firearms in his car, and South Dakota’s Attorney General deems him a terroristic threat. Feds confiscate 46 guns and explosive…