Davison County News

Some court and law enforcement officials in Davison County say they generally don't have a problem with the idea of cameras in trial-level courtrooms.

An inmate in the South Dakota Women's Prison will serve another seven years for convictions of other crimes committed while she was behind bars.

The manager of a Mexican restaurant in Mitchell, Eulalio Castellanos, says rent and groceries were a higher priority for him than getting health insurance.

Mitchell Police Department is the latest law enforcement agency in the state to use Nixle, a secure Web site where public safety and local officials can distribute information to residents.

Lincoln County Commissioner Jim Schmidt has been elected president of the board of directors of the South Dakota Association of County Commissioners for 2009-10. Minnehaha County Commissioner Anne Hajek also was elected to serve on the board.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Another survey of the homeless is planned in South Dakota.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: INDIGENT CLAIM Commission rejects record indigent claim MITCHELL, S.D. The county commission at Mitchell denied a $249,000 indigent health care claim because it said the patient had the means to pay for health insurance but chose not to purchase it.

The county commission at Mitchell denied a $249,000 indigent health care claim because it said the patient had the means to pay for health insurance but chose not to purchase it.

SDIndigent Claim,0085 Commission rejects record indigent claim Eds: APNewsNow. MITCHELL, S.D. The county commission at Mitchell denied a $249,000 indigent health care claim because it said the patient had the means to pay for health insurance but chose not to purchase it.

The sheriff of Davison County, Dave Miles, says about 500 warrants going back two or three have not yet made it into his department's computers.

A 21-year-old Maplewood man pleaded guilty Tuesday to vehicular homicide stemming from a June 2008 traffic crash in South Dakota that killed his mother.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press MITCHELL, S.D. Davison County has just received its largest ever single bill for indigent medical care $249,000. It's for a resident who got costly chemotherapy at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls.

Davison County just received its largest ever single bill for indigent medical care -- $249,000. It's for a resident treated earlier this year at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls.

A Mitchell man convicted in February of raping an 11 year-old girl in 2007 has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

A Mitchell man convicted in February of raping an 11 year-old girl in 2007 has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

A Mitchell man convicted in February of raping an 11 year-old girl in 2007 has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

The old one-room schoolhouse at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds has received a new roof and bell tower just in time for the Sioux Empire Fair.

A Mitchell man convicted in February of raping an 11 year-old girl in 2007 has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Posted by: Joel Rosenthal - 07/26/2009 5:56 PM Our orderly society depends on our obeying laws and following rules.

MOUNT VERNON - A Vivian man died of head injuries over the weekend when he fell under his lawn mower.