South Dakota
Rounds pushes for change to lower South Dakota crime
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – In a letter sent to the Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds urged immediate action to address the pressing issue of law enforcement training.
Currently, the Bureau of Indian Affairs mandates that a majority of tribal law enforcement officers go to training at a facility in New Mexico. The distance has made it difficult to recruit enough law enforcement officers in South Dakota. That’s forced tribal leaders to declare states of emergency due to high crime, something Rounds finds unacceptable.
“If we can make it easier for them to get trained, it means a higher percentage of them will complete their training, and if they complete their training here within the state and if they actually get acquainted with other law enforcement officers during their training, it gives us a better chance of actually keeping and retaining them long-term within the state and keeping them on the reservations, which is where a lot of them have their homes right now,” said Rounds.
There is hope that the establishment of a tribal law enforcement training center can bring down the high crime rates.
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South Dakota
Update: Missing 17-year-old in Turner County located in Yankton
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – Update: 17-year-old Vevon McGee was located in Yankton Saturday around 6:15 pm, which is nearly 50 miles from where he went missing.
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The search is on for a missing person in Turner County. Tevon McGee went missing Friday night around 11:00 pm.
He is 17 years old and has the development of an 8-year-old.
He was last seen near Marion wearing the same shirt as the one on the missing poster.
The Turner County Sheriff’s Office and the other local rescue agencies are assisting with the search effort.
Those with information are asked to call the Turner County Sheriff’s Office at (605) 297-3225
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South Dakota
Fiery railcars with hazardous material mostly contained after derailment in North Dakota
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Enflamed railcars carrying hazardous material were mostly extinguished Saturday, a day after they derailed in a remote area of North Dakota.
Officials said Friday no one had been hurt. The threat to those living nearby remained low, according to county emergency management, which reported no air contamination in the area or downwind.
Twenty-nine cars of a CPKC train derailed around 3:45 a.m. in a marshy area surrounded by farmland that is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Fargo, county emergency management director Andrew Kirking said.
Kirking said in a statement Saturday that the fire would still occasionally flare up as responders moved railcars from the tracks. But “firefighting operations through the night and morning have been incredibly successful,” he said.
Emergency officials now say the contents of the derailed cars included anhydrous ammonia, methanol and plastic pellets.
Bill Suess, spill investigation program manager for the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, identified ammonia as a potential risk, but wind was carrying the smoke away from the nearby town of Bordulac, which has about 20 residents.
“Wind has been in our favor on this,” Suess said Friday.
Exposure to high concentrations of ammonia in the air can cause burning of the eyes, nose, throat and respiratory tract, and can result in blindness, lung damage or death, health officials say. Exposure to lower amounts can result in coughing and irritation of the nose and throat.
CPKC said in a statement Friday that it has “initiated its emergency response plan and launched a comprehensive, coordinated response.”
The railroad was the result of a merger last year of Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that it is investigating.
South Dakota
From drought to floods: Soggy summer takes South Dakota to new extreme
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Emergency management officials have shifted their focus from flooding in South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska to further south on the Missouri River, where more rain this week brought predictions of second crests.
Flood concerns were being felt as far south as St. Louis as the Missouri River continues to carry runoff from record-setting storms in South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, combined with more recent rains over Missouri. In response, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cut back water releases from the dam system it manages in the Dakotas.
“In response to the rainfall, the releases from Fort Randall and Gavins Point dams were reduced,” said John Remus, chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management Division. “The lower releases were able to reduce downstream river stages, but they could not completely offset all of the flooding in the Sioux City area.”
This year’s waves of precipitation, while damaging to many in southeastern South Dakota, have had some positives. All of eastern South Dakota has escaped drought conditions that had gripped parts of the state for years, according to the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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