Custer County News

On a recent morning, South Dakota writer and rancher Linda Hasselstrom is taking care of the earth in a simple way - she is recycling a butchered deer.

People in the Black Hills spent the day digging out from the season's first major snowstorm.

Apparently more South Dakotans feel the need to express themselves on the road. Whether it's an outlet of creativity or old-fashioned vanity, personalized license plates are up 16 percent this year from 2008.

A man visiting the southern hills has not been in touch with his family, prompting concerns about his welfare.

Fifteen years ago, Benjamin Foos opened an agency called Seniors Unlimited in Mitchell.

The Hot Springs, SD, Star says a Nebraska couple believed to have committed suicide earlier this month at their home in Lisco were the subject at the time of a police investigation into a series of bad checks in the Southern Black Hills.

An educational program with a focus on small acreage success is set for Sept. 12 in Custer.

A half dozen lightning strike fires, coupled with an increase in the fire danger, prompted the South Dakota wildland fire suppression division to put an air tanker on alert.

Governor Mike Rounds appointed three people to be circuit judges in South Dakota.

The Custer County, South Dakota, sheriff is looking for two men who held up the Custer Best Western early Friday morning.

Nebraska heath officials announced the state's first H1N1 flu death Wednesday. The Nebraska patient was a woman in her 50s from Custer County; that's about four hours west of Omaha.

South Dakota couple files lawsuit against FS for mine destruction A South Dakota couple today filed a lawsuit against the United States in South Dakota federal district court to recover for the purposeful destruction of the couple's property by federal employees.

A South Dakota couple has filed a lawsuit seeking $400,000 from the federal government on grounds the U.S. Forest Service illegally bulldozed and gated two of the three gold mines they own claim to in Custer County.

A Denver police officer pleaded not guilty in Custer to charges that she shot at three South Dakota lawmen.

More South Dakota law enforcement agencies are sending two officers to calls for help or backing up other jurisdictions since the shooting death of a Turner County deputy sheriff, according to some sheriffs and their state association.