South Dakota
Petition returns Roe v. Wade to South Dakota ballot
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – With Roe v Wade being overturned at the federal level in 2022, the pro-choice community has been working to bring back those rights. At South Dakota’s state level, Dakotans For Health put together a petition with more than 55,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot.
Rick Weiland, Co-Founder of Dakotans for Health, believes these rights are important to protect women, living in a State that prides itself on freedom.
“We’ve spent millions of South Dakota tax dollars advertising what a free state we are. ‘come here and work in South Dakota, enjoy the freedom living in our state’, and then I look at the hypocrisy, and I think if you’re a woman and you’re raped and you’re pregnant, do you have freedom to make a choice of what to do? No, you’ve lost that,” Weiland said.
Travis Lasseter, executive Director of Black Hills Pregnancy Center, says no matter what happens with this initiative, their center will continue to answer all of their patient’s questions with medical facts, allowing women to make an informed decision.
Weiland says his group has faced backlash over potential late-term abortions. He went on to say the initiative is simply restoring women’s rights.
“I think this freedom amendment is so important to just restore the rights Women had for 50 years, we’re getting criticized for being too radical, that this goes way beyond Roe, which is just a bold-faced lie,” Weiland said.
Weiland says he is optimistic voters from both sides will bring women’s rights back to the most restrictive reproductive rights state of South Dakota.
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SIOUX FALLS — A Minnesota man killed after a crash on a Sioux Falls Interstate on-ramp has been identified by authorities.
The crash occurred shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday, May 11, on the 12th Street on-ramp to Interstate 29 northbound on the west side of Sioux Falls.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol said 44-year-old Derek Berry, of Zumbrota, Minnesota, was operating a Suzuki motorcycle when he entered the on-ramp to the northbound lanes of Interstate 29 at 12th Street, which features a sharp curve.
Troopers say Berry lost control of his bike on the curve and struck concrete barriers on both the east and west sides of the on-ramp, causing him to separate from his motorcycle.
Berry was taken to a Sioux Falls hospital where he died of his injuries.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash, though traffic was impacted for some time.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol continues to investigate the crash.
A South Dakota native, Hunter joined Forum Communications as a reporter for the Mitchell (S.D.) Republic in June 2021 and now works as a digital reporter for Forum News Service.
UNION COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – The Union County Sheriff’s Office said a man who has been missing for more than five years was found safe in another state.
On April 4, 2025, the Union County Sheriff’s Office worked with the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office to develop new possible investigation resources to located David Collin Barber.
Barber was reported missing in December 2019.
On May 13, 2025, Deputies said they received a tip that the man David Collin Barber had been on the west coast since 2019. They later learned he was now in South Dakota.
Law enforcement agencies in that area located Barber who stated he was ‘doing well.’
“We are thankful for the efforts of those who assisted in the search for Collin and the tips that came in that lead to this positive outcome for his loved ones,” said Sheriff Jeff Bailey in a release.
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