Sturgis News

Interstate 29 reopened Saturday after being closed for more than 44 hours, and South Dakotans began digging out from the biggest snowstorm they've seen in four decades.

A Sturgis woman had a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, possibly a state record, when she was found earlier this month behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle parked on Interstate 90, according to Meade County State's Attorney Jesse Sondreal.

A record-setting snowstorm has dumped 19 inches of snow on Sioux Falls so far and strong winds today still were creating drifts that were keeping most of the state interstate system closed.

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Kanye West takes the microphone from best female video winner Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards.

26 , 2009 I-90 to open Sioux Falls to Minnesota, Rapid City to Sturgis PIERRE , S.D. Effective at 11 a.m. on Saturday Dec.

The State of South Dakota has re-opened parts of Interstate 90. As of 11 a.m. Saturday, Interstate 90 from Sioux Falls east to the Minnesota line and from Sturgis east to Ellsworth Air Force Base has re-opened. All other portions of I-90 and all of I-29 remain closed.

Three-time Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee and author of the newly published book, The American Motorcycle Girls: 1900 - "1950 , Cristine Sommer-Simmons today announced that she will be riding in the Motorcycle Cannonball Run next year.

Amanda Olig moved to Colorado in August 2005, right after the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota.

Here is the lates4 South Dakota news from The Associated Press... _td> _tr> _script> The U.S. Attorney's office says a Sturgis woman has been indicted on federal charges of fraudulently taking oxycodone from the Fort Meade VA Medical Center while employed there as a nurse.

Lenny Kravitz says rumours he will replace Steven Tyler as Aerosmith 's singer are untrue.

Sturgis Road in Black Hawk will be renamed to honor the memory of a Meade County Army officer killed in Iraq in 2003.

The U.S. Attorney's office says a Sturgis woman has been indicted on federal charges of fraudulently taking oxycodone from the Fort Meade VA Medical Center while employed there as a nurse.

Dan Hayes of Rapid City has been appointed as the director of the South Dakota Office of emergency Medical Services.

Dec 7th, 2009 - 10:09:17 This holiday season, Sug Benjamin is giving the gift of 20 years of memories.

Construction workers get an early start on repairing a highly traveled KOTA Territory road.

Todd Winkel is seeing a five-year dream rise from the ground up. Last week, Winkel and business associates broke ground for his new business, Heartland Funeral Home.

Mourners remembered the sacrifice of Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Zorn as the Wyoming soldier was laid to rest.

ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill and guitarist Billy Gibbons perform in Munich, Germany, earlier this year.

The rock band Nickelback is one of those groups that has had across-the-board appeal since they hit mainstream superstardom in 2001.