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S.D. rail supporters tell foes to stop delays
- Several South Dakota groups that support the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad expansion have challenged opponents in Rochester, Minn., to stop trying to scuttle the project."It is time to end the planned and deliberate delays," South Dakota Farm Bureau CEO Mike Held said at a news conference Friday. Hotel owners deny allegations in civil suit
- A Mitchell couple has denied allegations in a federal civil suit accusing them of subjecting four Filipino immigrants to conditions of slavery, forced labor and trafficking in persons.Sioux Falls attorney Brendan Johnson last month filed a 21-page complaint on behalf of Gina Agulto, Grace Pineda, Ronilo Pangan and Ruby Pangan, all of Worthington, Minn. 
Clinton presses on, urges supporters to ignore calls to quit
- Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged her supporters Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast.The former first lady raced into a long West Virginia-to-the-West Coast campaign day, declaring she would move forward with her presidential effort and insisting anew that she, not Barack Obama, would be the stronger Democratic candidate to face Republican John McCain in November. McGovern, former Clinton backer, endorses Obama
- Former Sen. George McGovern, an early supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, urged her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed her rival, Barack Obama.After watching the returns from the North Carolina and Indiana primaries Tuesday night, McGovern said Wednesday it's virtually impossible for Clinton to win the nomination. The 1972 Democratic presidential nominee said he had a call in to former President Clinton to tell him of the decision, adding that he remains close friends with the Clintons. McGovern, former Clinton backer, urges her to drop out
- Former Sen. George McGovern, who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton, is urging her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race.McGovern said Wednesday he has decided to endorse Barack Obama. Man arrested in undercover sting
- A Jasper, Minn., man has been arrested and accused of going to Sioux Falls to have sex with a young girl he believed he had been chatting with on the Internet.It turned out to be a Sioux Falls police detective posing online as a 12-year-old girl named "UC." Franchiser responds to suit against hotel owners
- A Maryland-based hotel franchiser has responded to a federal lawsuit accusing a Mitchell couple of subjecting four Filipino immigrants to conditions of peonage, slavery, forced labor and trafficking in persons.Choice Hotels International Inc. in its written response denied that it is liable for any injuries to the workers caused by Robert John Farrell and Angelita Magat Farrell, who owned a Comfort Inn and Suites in Oacoma. DM&E alleges secret e-mails from Minn. opponents
- Rochester, Minn., opponents of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad coal train expansion have secretly instructed Wyoming landowners how to drag out DM&E's good faith efforts to acquire land, according to a motion filed by the railroad.The civil action in federal court in Wyoming accuses Rochester Coalition consultants of "coordinating efforts with a minority of the landowners along the railroad route ... to misrepresent DM&E's dealings with landowners generally," it states. Lewis & Clark pipeline to deliver first water to Iowa town
- The Lewis and Clark Regional Water System plans to deliver its first supply of water on Thursday, but only to one town in northwest Iowa.The long-term goal of the $537 million project is to pump water from wells near Vermillion to parts of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. Arrests made at protest of S.D. hog farm after road blocked
- Fifteen to 20 people protesting a hog farm being built near Yankton Sioux Tribe land were arrested Tuesday after they blocked the path of a truck carrying construction materials.Members of the southeastern South Dakota tribe have been protesting the Long View Farm since last week, saying it will stink up the area and could harm its air and water quality. The farm, which could begin operating as early as September, is being built west of Wagner and about four miles from the tribe's headquarters in Marty. |
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