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There is concern that the ongoing federal budget sequester could have an impact on law enforcement. The automatic, across the...
Yankton County Sheriff Jim Vlahakis says a vehicle was seized in Mission Hill yesterday (Monday) in connection with the hit a...
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association members say they are disappointed EPA has released personal producer information ...
The annual report from the US Attorney’s Office in South Dakota shows a continued trend of increases in cases and defen...
For the second time in five years, a northwest Iowa legislator has proposed docking the pay of Iowa Supreme Court justices, t...
The process of appealing a decision made by the Nebraska Public Service Commission would change under a bill moving forward i...
This week, Holt County Nebraska supervisors unanimously approved a resolution opposing crude oil pipelines crossing their cou...
Entitlement reform, namely changes to Medicare and Social Security are buzzwords in Washington right now, as part of budget c...
Nebraska legislators who want the state to expand Medicaid under provisions of the federal health care law are pushing to rev...
The medical community and law enforcement in South Dakota are cooperating to help new parents cope with their crying babies.A...
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn a DC Cir...
A former Iowa Department of Transportation employee and a man from Sioux City have been arrested and accused of stealing 407-...
This year’s session of the South Dakota Legislature passed a comprehensive criminal reform bill. The measure grew out o...
An Irene teenager has been killed in a weekend accident in rural Yankton County.The Yankton County Sheriff’s Office say...
Early this morning, Yankton Police responded to the area of 905 E. 15th Street for a report of a shooting. Investigation of t...
Ag organizations including the National Pork Producers Council are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to take steps t...
Last week was a busy one for Public Lands Council and NCBA involved with cases at the U.S. Supreme Court.PLC and NCBA filed a...
The death penalty is again being debated in the Nebraska legislature. Several people giving testimony before the Judiciary Co...
The US House, Thursday, passed the “Violence Against Women Act” on a 286 to 138 vote.The legislation creates and ...
Senator Ernie Chambers of Omaha has been railing against legislation that would allow inmates at the McCook Work Camp to work...
The Public Lands Council has joined NCBA in a decades old water and private property rights case they’re hoping the U.S...
NCBA officials are voicing concern that private business information from Confined Animal Feedlot operations has been release...
A group of Iowa State University researchers is working to identify possible early warning signs in children that may lead to...
The case of Nebraska landowners challenging the Keystone Pipeline is moving ahead in Lancaster County Court. District Judge S...
Governor Dennis Daugaard moved his desk to the Capitol rotunda for the ceremonial signing of SB70, a measure that makes major...
The justice reform bill, SB 70, passed through the South Dakota Senate Thursday, after some emotional debate.The bill was the...
The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn an order demanding a West Virginia Poultry grower obtain a Clean Water Act ...
The Nebraska Pardons Board met this week, but did not review 24 cases of prisoners sentenced to life in prison for crimes com...
Iowa's Secretary of State says skepticism about in the way elections are conducted is prompting many Americans to skip vo...
A key Iowa legislator wants to provide more money to investigate old crimes. Senator Rob Hogg, a Democrat from Cedar Rapids, ...
The execution this fall of Donald Moeller leaves three men on South Dakotas death row; Charles Rhines, Briley Piper and Rodne...
The Environmental Protection Agency has asked a California court to dismiss a lawsuit that could affect the usage of hundreds...
A proposal is being pushed to extend foster care services in Nebraska until the foster child turns 21.Senator Amanda McGill s...
A federal judge has struck down parts of the Nebraska sex offender law.The judge has found the state cannot limit the use of ...
Opponents of the death penalty gathered at the Yankton County Government Center to hold a prayer vigil around the time of the...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia has ruled the American Farm Bureau Federation has a right ...
The South Dakota Open Government Task Force that has been meeting for the past few months has wrapped up its work, and sent i...
A fatal shooting and a variety of other crimes over the weekend have kept police in Sioux City busy. Police Chief Doug Young ...
Law enforcement hopes to revive interest in a 13-year-old northeast Nebraska murder case that remains unsolved.Nebraska State...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman says the state is proceeding with its evaluation of the environmental impact of the Keystone ...
A Drake University expert says the billion-dollar lawsuit filed against ABC News and others by Beef Products Incorporated ove...
Lawyers for the State of Nebraska asked a Judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by landowners asking that a pipeline siting la...
Lawyers for the State of Nebraska asked a Judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by landowners asking that a pipeline siting la...
Beef Products Incorporated has filed a one-point-two-BILLION dollar lawsuit against A-B-C News for "knowingly and intent...
Attorney General Jon Bruning announced that his office has filed two misdemeanor counts against state Senator Brenda Council ...
The Oklahoma National Stockyards is being sued for allegedly illegally manipulating cattle prices and violating the Packers a...
Wednesday, R CALF USA and the Made in the USA foundation filed a lawsuit against the WTO, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack and USTR R...
Over two weeks ago, a Sioux Falls man was found guilty on eight counts relating to the night he raped three girls in his Huro...
The wife of suspended Minnesota State Mankato football coach Todd Hoffner is defending her husband against child porn charges...
An Omaha woman is charged with trying to deliver contraband to her son who is serving time at the state penitentiary in Linco...
The "Star-Tribune" reports two felony child pornography counts have been filed against Minnesota State head footbal...
The "Mankato Free Press" reports Minnesota State head football coach Todd Hoffner was arrested on Tuesday on reques...
Iowa's Secretary of State and Attorney General defended the process being used to remove non-citizens who may've vote...
The United States Court of Appeals in Washington DC has ruled that groups challenging E 15 had no proof engines had been or w...
A coalition that successfully campaigned against three Iowa Supreme Court justices in 2010 has reassembled; to work for the d...
The body of a Yankton woman was recovered from the Missouri River Sunday after being spotted by fishermen.According to the Ya...
A majority of Iowa lawyers who participated in an Iowa State Bar Association survey favor a "yes" vote for all 75 j...
A court injunction is being sought to stop the Cattlemen’s Beef Board from contracting with NCBA to carry out beef chec...
The recent death of a two year old girl in Charles Mix County has again highlighted the difficulties of law enforcement in an...
The Nebraska Supreme Court has declared the state's embattled campaign finance law unconstitutional. Common Cause Nebrask...
The chairman of the Iowa Republican Party has issued a "call to action," urging Iowa voters to toss an Iowa Supreme...
The American Farm Bureau Federation has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit concerning the EPA’ s authority to reg...
South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard is launching a criminal justice initiative, to look at increasing prisoner numbers and ...
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has signed an executive order which ensures 38 inmates sentenced to life in an Iowa prison for a...
Pork Industry officials are pleased EPA has withdrawn its proposed Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Reporting Rule. SDPP...
Police have shut down a Twitter site that appears to be for bullying students at Worthington Minnesota High School. Superinte...
A search is underway for a missing state prison inmate.Inmate Eric Harcey walked away from the Yankton Minimum Unit late Thur...
Iowa’s attorney general and secretary of state have collaborated on a case to stop a California man from stealing thous...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman says the state cannot afford to expand Medicaid, sending a letter to three state senators obj...
Lawyer Rusty Hardin says Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was "the victim" during his recent arrest. ...
One U.S. Cattle group leader is questioning whether there was conflict of interest in the WTO case involving the appeal of th...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman says the state has time to implement the federal healthcare law's provisions.The law pass...
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson faces charges after scuffling with off-duty police officers in Houston. Peterson was arr...
Friday's ruling by the WTO Tribunal says the U.S. COOL Law as its presently implemented treats imported product less favo...
Now that the US Supreme Court has decided that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, the debate is picking up once again...
The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled a case involving alleged price fixing in American potash markets can proceed. A...
The original legal challenge to the federal Affordable Care Act was brought by Attorneys General from twenty six states.South...
A World Trade Organization tribunal is expected to rule tomorrow on the United States Country of Origin Labeling Law. The cas...
The Supreme Court ruled that much of the Affordable Health Care Act is constitutional, which means provisions already enacted...
Friday, The World Trade Organization is expected to issue its decision on the U.S. government’s appeal of a dispute pan...
A U.S. Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday upheld EPA's regulation of greenhouse gase under the Clean Air Act.Although recent...
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling could come any day on the healthcare reform issue. University of Nebraska-Lincoln constitutional ...
EPA has given E15 the final green light for sale in the nation’s fuel supply, at the same time the coalition that filed...
The Yankton Police Department is searching for a missing / endangered person.Jeffrey Leo Potts, 47 years old, from Crofton, N...
The EPA partial waiver on E15 could soonbe struck down by the court. That’s the opinion of NPPC legal counsel Michael F...
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the US Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Donald Moeller in the 1990...
An Illinois District Court has given a preliminary decision upholding a settlement agreement between Syngenta and several Ill...
A construction company in Sioux Falls is reporting the theft of several thousand dollars' worth of steel.Police officer S...
A candidate for the South Dakota House of Representatives is charged after, police say, she hit a girl on a bike.Officer Sam ...
Police are still trying to figure out what caused this weekend's house explosion in Onawa. Assistant Police Chief Jim Fou...
Wednesday, Three Nebraska landowners filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s current pipeline siting law. They’re...
Today three Nebraska landowners filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s current pipeline siting law. LB 1161 gives the ...
NPPC has asked a federal court to allow them a seat at the table in a lawsuit brought by environmental group’s against ...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning has no plans to drop his legal fight against the Obama Administration's contracepti...
National Pork Producers Council officials want the Colombian government to remove their Trichinae restrictions on U.S. pork b...
The Iowa legislature has voted to create a new state agency to investigate complaints about city and county governments that ...
Thursday, House Sub Committee members heard testimony for and against the Domestic Fuels Protection Act of 2012. The measure ...
The Humane Society of the United States says in a press release on their website they’ve filed a legal complaint with t...
The Petersen Bubke cattle feed lot in Monona County Iowa near Mapleton has agreed to pay a $ 10,000 civil penalty to EPA ...
An EPA rule restricting emissions from power plants was looked at closely by a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals federal Judges ...
South Dakota Circuit Judge Sean O’Brien Wednesday reversed a State Water Management decision that granted a permit for ...
Concerned Citizens of Hanson County Chairman Rob Bender was pleased with the Circuit Judge’s decision Wednesday revokin...
An Iowa District Court Judge has ruled against Ag groups including the Iowa Farm Bureau and others in a lawsuit challenging a...
A federal judge in Sioux City has thrown out a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration's ban on bringing unpaste...
Iowa prosecutors soon will have "more legal tools" as they seek to charge people with exploiting children and teens...
The fate of the federal health care reform legislation is in the hands of the US Supreme Court following oral arguments last ...
Despite the challenge to the health care reform law heard in the US Supreme Court last week, the State of South Dakota contin...
Federal regulations are a primary concern for Minnesota Farm Bureau members this week.The group has a delegation meeting with...
The US Supreme Court wrapped up three days of oral argumentsover the constitutional questions around the federal health care ...
A working group at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha has been studying the federal health care law for the p...
Federal Court Judge Theodore Katz has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to start proceedings to withdraw approval...
This week, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning will be in Washington D-C for three days of arguments in front of the Suprem...
Corn Refiners Association officials asked a federal court judge this week to dismiss claims by Sugar Processors that it is fa...
The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a state law, that malt beverages or "alchopops" should be taxed as...
A U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, Florida has ruled EPA’s imposed numeric criteria for Florida streams and unimpair...
A decision by a private contractor to pull out as the lead agency for child welfare services in Nebraska increases pressure o...
The operation depicted in the latest Compassion Over Killing undercover video is refuting the charges they abuse their animal...
Litigation is looming in regards to EPA’s proposed Confined Animal Feeding Operation or CAFO reporting requirements rel...
Nebraska lawmakers are dealing with a group of bills that would revamp, once again, child welfare services. The state moved t...
A senator who sponsored a bill to get rid of the death penalty in Nebraska has pulled the bill from consideration until the i...
Authorities in South Dakota are seeing a rise in the use and abuse of new, manufactured drugs. Synthetic marijuana and the so...
Iowa Governor Terry Branstadhas introduced a bill, on the first day of the new legislative session, that would require reside...
Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman says the objections raised by defense lawyers about how the state obtained a drug vital to th...
A new drunk driving law has gone into effect in Nebraska. Governor Dave Heineman outlines the change. . .If those convicted o...
Nebraska's tougher enforcement of school truancy laws is paying off as three-thousand less students missed more than 20-days ...
An elderly woman died in a mobile home fire yesterday afternoon. Yankton Assistant Fire Chief Larry Nickles says they got the...
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad says the 36 Iowa Workforce Development offices closed in a budget cutting move will not be reope...
An internal investigation accuses 11 staff members of the Beatrice State Developmental Center in Nebraska of either abusing r...
The 26 states which have filed the lawsuit against the Obama Administration's health care law have asked the Supreme Court to...
