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Federal and local authorities say they've arrested a missing Arkansas man who faked his own drowning.

A 16-year-old Sioux Falls girl has been killed in a Yankton County collision. The South Dakota Highway Patrol says Aecho Holmes and a passenger were headed west on state Highway 46 Monday.

Yankton and Parkston have been recognized by the state Health Department for outstanding efforts last year to immunize children against the flu.

The Discovery bridge that replaces the Meridian bridge in Yankton is finally nearing completion.

A judge gave permission for a second psychiatric evaluation in a Yankton murder trial.

BREAKING NEWS: John McCain's Pick for VP On his 72nd birthday, Senator John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate.

According to Iowa State Patrol troopers, around 11:30 a.m., a semi-driver failed to yield when merging onto the Interstate 29 north bound near Sloan, Iowa.

Two South Dakota Communities have been recognized by the state Department of Health for outstanding community-wide efforts to immunize their kids against the flu in last year's Child Influenza Initiative.

Dakota State University's women kept themselves from an early-season slide Saturday, producing a 3-2 volleyball win over Waldorf College in Yankton.

SDNew Warden,0133 Yankton Federal Prison Camp warden has been on the job since May YANKTON, S.D. The new warden at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp says he's glad to be in Yankton.

Its first album came out ten years ago, but a Blues-Rock band from the Yankton Indian Reservation is still inspiring Native American kids in South Dakota.

How many times have you passed by a fire extinguisher and thought to yourself...if a fire *were* to break out, could I put it out? It seems pretty basic, you see a fire...you grab an extinguisher...and shoot ...

Once a fallow farmer's field where pheasant crept and deer nibbled on grass, Legacy Park not only is the city's newest park but also remains a place where people can spy a little wildlife.

The 36th annual South Dakota and Open Fiddle Contest and Jamboree, and Accordion Contest and Harmonica Contest will be Sept.

For the fourth quarter in a row, the city of Yankton has been forced to issue a notice informing residents that tests by the South Dakota Department of Environmental and Natural Resources indicate that the ...

Associated Press - August 16, 2008 2:35 PM ET YANKTON, S.D. - Yankton historians say it's time to settle on a birth date -- or at least a birth year -- so the community can celebrate its 150th.

Opponents of a South Dakota abortion ban ballot proposal launched a national campaign Tuesday that aims to defeat the measure, the AP/Yankton Press and Dakotan reports .

It will be the end of an era when a country church, in northeast Nebraska, closes it's doors for good later this month after more than a century of serving residents in the area.

For the first time, Yankton, South Dakota, is taking part in a unique event that works toward crime and drug prevention in neighborhoods.