WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - The hunt continues for the makeup of the universe's most mysterious matter * * * Quentin Riffard, a project scientist for the LUX-ZEPLIN (https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/10/29/dark-matter-experiments-central-component-takes-a-deep-dive-nearly-a-mile-underground/) dark matter detection experiment that is now being installed at the Sanford Underground Research  more

ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, South Dakota, Oct. 29 -- The U.S. Air Force (28th Bomb Wing) issued the following news: Multiple B-1B Lancers launched from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., on Oct. 24, 2019, as part of Bomber Task Force operations in U.S. Central Command. The B-1s returned home after a mission that reached across the globe from South Dakota to Saudi Arabia. This deployment demonstrated the ability to rapidly deploy anywhere, anytime in the world, and provide lethal precision global st  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: Last week, crews at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota strapped the central component of LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) - the largest direct-detection dark matter experiment in the U.S. - below an elevator and s-l-o-w-l-y lowered it 4,850 feet down a shaft formerly used in gold-mining operations. This final journey of LZ's central detector on Oct. 21 to  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division issued the following news release: * * * - Colorado Leaves the New York and California Litigation and Joins the Justice Department's Resolution * * * Colorado is seeking to join the United States, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota in settling claims relating to the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, the Department of Justice announced today. The settlement requires a substantia  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: The Department of Justice announced today that hospital entities Sanford Health, Sanford Medical Center, and Sanford Clinic (collectively, Sanford), of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have agreed to pay $20.25 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs resulting from violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and medically unnecessary sp  more

HURON, South Dakota, Nov. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development - South Dakota office issued the following news release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for South Dakota Julie Gross today announced USDA is investing $8 million in H-D Electric to make infrastructure improvements. Gross' announcement is in coordination with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue's recent announcement that the USDA is investing $1.4 billion in projec  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Oct. 30 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Ron Parsons, issued the following news release: * * * - Defendant Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota * * * United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today a Ft. Pierre, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft from a Program Receiving Federal Funds. Pamela Duncan, age  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Ron Parsons, issued the following news release: The Department of Justice announced today that hospital entities Sanford Health, Sanford Medical Center, and Sanford Clinic (collectively, Sanford), of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have agreed to pay $20.25 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs resulting from violations of the A  more