May 16, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
BISMARCK Donations from the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association have boosted reward funds for information leading to convictions in two high-profile cattle-killing cases on opposite sides of the state. Continue Reading
January 4, 2013 in The Daily Republic
PIERRE (AP) South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has asked the 2nd Judicial Circuit to schedule a resentencing hearing for a man who helped kill a guard at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
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September 14, 2012 in The Daily Republic
A 24-year-old woman who was fatally shot in front of the Sioux Falls hair salon she managed while trying to protect an employee from what police say was an abusive boyfriend was hardworking and loved having fun, her former teacher and coach said.
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September 14, 2012 in The Daily Republic
Amanda Connors, 24, was dating Tyler Veurink, of Platte. Originally from Minnesota, Connors was working as a hairstylist at Cost Cutters in Sioux Falls and had just been promoted to store manager.
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September 11, 2012 in The Daily Republic
PIERRE The South Dakota Supreme Court will hear arguments Oct. 1 in the appeal of a man sentenced to death for murdering a State Penitentiary guard during a failed escape attempt.
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August 24, 2012 in The Daily Republic
PIERRE (AP) South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says Judge Bradley Zell has approved his request to schedule a mid-October execution for a State Penitentiary inmate who killed a prison guard.
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June 15, 2012 in The Daily Republic
MADISON (AP) A jockstrap pulled over his head in a high school locker room more than 50 years ago provoked a 73-year-old South Dakota man to fatally shoot his long-ago classmate, a prosecutor said Friday.
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May 10, 2012 in The Daily Republic
The South Dakota Department of Corrections and several of its staff acknowledge many of the facts surrounding the slaying of prison guard Ronald Johnson last year but deny they knowingly contributed to his killing, according to a response filed Wednesday to a wrongful death lawsuit. Continue Reading
April 28, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) The family of a slain prison guard is suing the South Dakota Department of Corrections, arguing that negligence by corrections staff led to the death of Ronald R.J Johnson during a failed escape attempt by two inmates a year ago.
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April 12, 2012 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) Renaming a South Dakota prison’s training academy after a guard who was killed during a botched escape attempt a year ago is a fitting tribute to the officer, state corrections officials said Thursday.
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