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Mel Zelmer, owner of Zelmer Inc., in Tea, South Dakota was recently elected president of the South Dakota Home Builders Association .

Hamlin County Sheriff Dan Mack says one man died after an accident involving two pickups east of Castlewood in Northeast South Dakota.

Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce & Development Company 116 Market Street, Suite 103 Vermillion, SD 57069 605-624-5571 vcdc@vermillionchamber.com www.vermillionchamber.com Chamber Business: Volunteers are needed to help with the 2009 Midwest Youth Basketball Championships held at the Dome Dec.

SDGlacial Lakes Expansion,0126 Improvements planned at Mina ethanol plant Eds: APNewsNow.

South Dakota Public Broadcasting spotlights the achievements of South Dakota youth on Nov.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS Department readies for extended jobless benefits VERMILLION, S.D. The South Dakota Labor Department's unemployment insurance director says the 14-week extension of unemployment benefits authorized by Congress won't hurt the state's struggling unemployment fund.

Lutherans will gather at 6:30 p.m. today at the Watertown Events Center to consider possible responses to the biblical and theological crisis in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

WATERTOWN, S.D. The Prairie Lakes Healthcare System in Watertown has a new chief executive officer.

Mel Zelmer of Tea has been elected president of the South Dakota Home Builders Association.

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press LEAD, S.D. Officials are reporting a milestone in pumping water out of the former Homestake gold mine.

WATERTOWN - A spokesman for the South Dakota National Guard says his office has been busy fielding calls from people wondering if any South Dakotans were involved in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but he says none were.

The search and rescue workers used a boat and a pair of jet skis to find the canoe and rescue the victims.

A panel discussion on increasing South Dakota's college graduation rate is scheduled for Thursday at the the Orpheum theater in downtown Sioux Falls.

Clinics across South Dakota have seen thousands of people come through their doors.

Children in Rapid City and Watertown are among the first in South Dakota to roll up their sleeves for an H1N1 vaccine clinic.

H1N1 vaccination clinics are being held across South Dakota. Doors opened at an immunization clinic at the Codington County Extension Building in Watertown at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and there was a line of people waiting to get in.

WATERTOWN, S.D. - The superintendent of schools in Henry, Brian Sieh, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: CASINO-GAMING COMMISSION Gaming board won't probe allegations WATERTOWN, S.D. The South Dakota Gaming Commission says it can't investigate allegations against the chairman of the Sisseton- Wahpeton Oyate Tribe over a firing and alleged conflicts of interest.

City of Brandon employees were presented a Gold Level Loss Control/Safety Achievement Award at the annual South Dakota Municipal League Conference in Watertown on Oct.

The missing handshake, the surprise day off and an empty school are signs of the flu this fall in South Dakota.