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South Dakota's tough drug laws will be in state Supreme Court's spotlight While legal arguments will win or lose the upcoming South Dakota Supreme Court battle over Amendment A, some legal minds see the case having far-reaching impacts on low-level drug crimes, which fill the state's criminal justice system. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | × Dusty law books sit on a shelf in the Minnehaha County Courthouse library in Sioux Falls, S.D., in late March 2021. (Christopher Vondracek / Forum News Service) PIERRE, S.D. —The South Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday, ...

South Dakota's tough drug laws will be in state Supreme Court's spotlight While legal arguments will win or lose the upcoming South Dakota Supreme Court battle over Amendment A, some legal minds see the case having far-reaching impacts on low-level drug crimes, which fill the state's criminal justice system. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | × Dusty law books sit on a shelf in the Minnehaha County Courthouse library in Sioux Falls, S.D., in late March 2021. (Christopher Vondracek / Forum News Service) PIERRE, S.D. —The South Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday, ...

* * * Ben Affleck was born in Oakland but raised with his younger brother, Casey, as everyone knows, in Boston — Cambridge, specifically — by his mother, a grade school teacher, and, until he was about 10, his father, a onetime theater writer-director who later worked as a janitor and bartender. (Affleck says his father was "mostly unemployed and an alcoholic," sometimes "living on the streets.") When Affleck was 7, a casting director friend of his mother invited him to audition for a local PBS children's series, which he landed and "really liked." A year later, Matt Damon, a fellow aspi...

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." - Ernest Hemingway And a lot of American movies, too. "Big Shots" is a modern urban retread of "Huckleberry Finn," except that the black character plays both Huck and Jim, the white kid is Tom Sawyer and the Mississippi River has been turned into an interstate highway. The result is more entertaining than you might think. The movie begins with a father going fishing with his teenage son (Ricky Busker) and telling him some of the facts of life. Within a few days, the father is dead, and in grief his son...

100th birthday of our native illinoisan, the 40th president, ronald reagan, i want to talk for a moment about his life and what he has meant to the united states now on the 100th anniversary of president reagan's birth. mr. kirk: on february 6, 1911 in tampico, illinois, with a population of 820, john and nellie reagan welcomed a child who would one day change the direction not just of our country but the world. according to the reagan family lore, when he first gazed upon his son, john reagan prophetically kweupd he looks like a fat little dutch man. but who knows, one day he may gr...