WASHINGTON, July 28 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In June 2023, New Hampshire (1.8 percent), South Dakota (1.8 percent), Maryland (2.0 percent), Arkansas (2.6 percent), Massachusetts (2.6 percent), Oklahoma (2.7 percent), Mississippi (3.1 percent), Ohio (3.4 percent), and Pennsylvania (3.8 percent) had record low unemployment rates. (All state unemployment data begin in 1976.) * * * Chart: State  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, July 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Alison J. Ramsdell, issued the following news release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a federal jury has convicted Edwin Giovanni Salinas, age 44, of El Salvador, of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance (Fentanyl) and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance (Fentanyl) following a three-day jury trial in federal district court in Aberdeen, South Dakot  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, July 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Alison J. Ramsdell, issued the following news release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a federal grand jury has indicted a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, woman for Second Degree Murder. Stacey Bissonette, age 26, was indicted in July of 2023. She appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daneta Wollmann on July 26, 2023, and pleaded not guilty to the Indictment. The maximum penalty upon co  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, July 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Alison J. Ramsdell, issued the following news release on July 24, 2023: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Plano, Texas, man convicted of Second Degree Murder and a Niobrara, Nebraska, woman convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. Alexis Delarosa, age 33, was sentenced to   more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, July 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Alison J. Ramsdell, issued the following news release on July 28, 2023: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Gillette, Wyoming, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. The sentencing took place on July 21, 2023. Amos Torres, 48, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of sup  more