January 28, 2021 GMT
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) The search for a 9-year-old girl missing for nearly two years has finally come to an end in western South Dakota, the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
The widespread search for Serenity Dennard, who ran away from a children’s home in Rockerville, involved more than 1,500 people from 66 different agencies who logged about 6,000 miles searching for the girl, according to sheriff’s officials.
Trained dogs and their handlers searched the region where Serenity disappeared Feb. 3, 2019 on 220 occasions. The Rapid City/Pennington County Water Rescue Team divers were brought out numerous times and the area was searched by air seven times.
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - For nearly three months, Camp Mniluzahan has been providing shelter, warm meals and a sense of community for Rapid City’s homeless population.
“We’re just relatives taking care of relatives,” volunteer Sunny Red Bear said during a tour of the camp. “It is amazing to see the people create a sense of community here, sisterhood and brotherhood, it’s just like a family.”
Many of the camp residents became homeless after going through something traumatic and losing love for themselves and from others, said volunteer Hermus Bettelyoun.
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January 2, 2021
The investigation into the homicide has led to additional arrests of 42-year-old Masheka Barnett, 20-year-old Kaleb Lukkes, and 19-year-old Clint Marshall for offenses related to the incident.
The RCPD appreciates the assistance provided by the U.S. Marshal’s Service and the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office in bringing these individuals into custody.
The investigation into the homicide is ongoing.
HOMICIDE UPDATE: 21-year-old Elias Richard has been placed under arrest for 2nd Degree Murder in relation to the Christmas Evening shooting that took place in the 1000 block of Silverleaf Street. pic.twitter.com/25j5UFw2dX
From a distance, the green pines and the blue-gray haze that gently hug the valleys of the Black Hills merge into a deep black. The Lakota name “He Sapa” meaning “black ridge” describes this visual phenomenon. This is a place of origin for dozens of Native peoples and a revered landscape for more than 50 others. The land’s most recent, and perhaps longest-serving, stewards the Oceti Sakowin, the Dakota, Nakota and Lakota people hold the mountains central to their cosmos.
The Black Hills are also central to the political territory drawn by the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties. And they continue to be a crucial part of the strategic position that sustained Native resistance to white encroachment. They have become an international symbol of the call to return stolen land to Indigenous people. That’s why President Donald Trump chose to hold his July 3 rally at Mount Rushmore, said Nick Tilsen, who is Oglala Lakota. The faces of U.S. Presidents George Washington
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Dec 30, 2020 12:59 PM
A teenager from Sioux Falls wanted on murder and manslaughter charges was arrested this morning (Dec. 30, 2020) in Pierre.
Deputy US Marshal Chris Gross says 17 year old Devon Montileaux was wanted for a warrant issued in Minnehaha County charging him with Second Degree Murder and First Degree Manslaughter.
The charges stem from an alleged incident at an apartment complex (on North Cleveland Avenue) in Sioux Falls that left Ephraim Shulue dead.
Gross says investigators with the Dakota Territory Fugitive Task Force– led by the US Marshal Service– searched for Montileaux and followed up on numerous leads.