Ziebach County News

Having to appear on a stage with Donald Trump is surely degrading and embarrassing.

The latest U.S. Census shows the three most poverty-stricken counties in the nation are in South Dakota, west of the Missouri River.

Four of the nation's 10 poorest counties are in South Dakota, with poverty rates greater than 40 percent.

An 18-year-old South Dakota has pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Maka Akan Inaji Frazier, of Dupree, pleaded guilty to assaulting and intimidating a Ziebach County Sheriff on June 3. Prosecutors say Frazier struck the sheriff's patrol car during a pursuit, causing it to go into a ditch.