RAPID CITY - A 22-year-old South Dakota man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for beating a sleeping man to death with a baseball bat on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
ABERDEEN - A man accused of murdering a woman in Chicago has waived extradition from South Dakota and voluntarily agreed to be returned to that city to face prosecution.
MONUMENT, Colo. - The executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections was shot and killed when he answered the front door of his house, and police are searching for the gunman and trying to figure out if it had anything to do with his position.