John Hult
Senior Reporter at South Dakota Searchlight
Storyteller. South Dakotan. Agitating in the public interest. Senior reporter for @SDSearchlight. Got news tips? Hit me: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
newscenter1.tv | Trent Singer |John Hult
Lawmakers approved rule changes Tuesday to create a new license pathway for kinship foster care in the state, paid at the same rate as foster families. The intent is to increase licensed kinship care, which is when children removed from their home due to suspected abuse and neglect are placed with relatives or close family friends instead of strangers.
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newscenter1.tv | Trent Singer |John Hult
The State of South Dakota inadvertently repealed the ban in 2019 when they changed several other rules simultaneously. Bear Butte is near Sturgis in western South Dakota. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) By Makenzie Huber / South Dakota SearchlightToday at 4:05 PM News Reporting News Reporting Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.
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siouxfallslive.com | Trent Singer |John Hult
A South Dakota ballot question committee and its lawyer are among the first victims of a new U.S. Supreme Court precedent that lessens the likelihood of recovering attorney fees when suing the government for civil rights violations. The high court’s decision in a separate case recently caused Dakotans for Health and its attorney, Jim Leach, to drop their effort to recover attorney fees in a lawsuit against Lawrence County.
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siouxfallslive.com | Trent Singer |John Hult
Another round of violence erupted Sunday on the campus of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, the Department of Corrections has confirmed. The fight between inmates came a little more than a month after two other incidents on the penitentiary campus, one of which injured a female correctional officer. Those earlier events occurred shortly before the first meeting of a state work group debating the future of the oldest portions of the 144-year-old prison grounds in Sioux Falls.
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southdakotasearchlight.com | John Hult
by John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight May 5, 2025 Another round of violence erupted Sunday on the campus of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, the Department of Corrections has confirmed. The fight between inmates came a little more than a month after two other incidents on the penitentiary campus, one of which injured a female correctional officer.
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Is South Dakota spending too much for its prison? Should it be spending less on a few smaller prisons? If the House of Representatives shoots down the big prison plan tomorrow afternoon, we'll be asking a lot more questions like that. https://t.co/RA3GwcBZ9G
All stops pulled out for Aberdeen day at the Capitol. A note from this Huron native, though: the Fair City is and will forever hold the pheasant crown. https://t.co/nbmvUV0LX0
A blink-and-you-missed-it bill in the SD legislature would shield Uber from product liability lawsuits. It sailed through committee without opposition. Uber's already required to carry a million bucks in liability insurance, company reps said.https://t.co/0s9DMsohLa
