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The flu season is keeping substitute teachers busy this year. The Yankton school district has been building a larger-than-normal pool of substitute teacher candidates, as students aren't the only ones being kept from classes because of the H1N1 and seasonal flu viruses.

The measure is supported by South Dakotans for Lifesaving Cures. Sentencing for 27-year-old Jackie Black Hawk of Wanblee is scheduled for January.

The LifeLight Fall Tour featuring Disciple, Project 86, Children18:3 and a live art performance by Eric Samuel Timm, kicks off this week, making a Thursday stop in Brookings.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: SANFORD- MeritCare health care system merger nears finish line Fargo , N.D. The largest health systems in the Dakotas are expected to complete their merger this week.

The annual LifeLight Music Festival most likely will remain in the Sioux Falls area though two other cities are still in the running as officials look for a permanent home for the event.

At some point, the dolls that Linda Nelson was creating became real to her. High Bear evolved into a chief, the leader of his people.

Trish Leibfarth and her fellow Greeks are scaring up some cash with their Halloween haunted house.

Soggy fields and more rain continue to hold up South Dakota's row-crop harvest. The weekly crop report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says statewide last week, there were only two days suitable for field work.

A 15-year legal fight over a bank name appears to be nearing an end with The First National Bank in Sioux Falls holding the upper hand.

The South Dakota Transportation Commission will give the Meridian Bridge in Yankton almost $2 million in federal stimulus funds.

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YANKTON - NorthWestern Energy is asking the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission for permission to offer a program it says will make its customers' homes more energy efficient.

In a release, the SBA says the loans are to offset economic losses caused by the combined effects of severe storms, flooding and grasshopper infestations this year.

Gov. Mike Rounds says there are signs of optimism in the business community but that the recovery from the recession remains slow.

This summer we introduced you to three inmates learning life lessons with their bare hands.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 10/15/2009 10:01 AM First blogs beat up the newspapers; will Web TV kill KELO next? Yankton 'Net maven Ben Hanten is busy innovating again.

Nineteen years after South Dakota dropped Columbus Day in favor of Native American Day, the annual Sioux Falls Powwow held to celebrate it has become a touchstone event for the city, attendees said.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press BATH, S.D. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says his agency will decide soon whether to approve a request for disaster declarations for counties in the northeast part of South Dakota hurt by spring flooding.

Yankton Press & Dakotan "They have their insecurities and don't want you to do well," Katie Couric said at the University of South Dakota, where she received the Al Neuharth Award.

A 19-year-old Volin man died in a one-car roll-over on a road about 1 mile west of Volin Wednesday.