Posts Tagged ‘deaths’

Dakota Digest: March for Justice

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Published (air date) June 18, 2010
BY PAUL GUGGENHEIMER
SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC RADIO

Alcohol is illegal on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Despite this, alcoholism has ravaged the community. Residents can buy beer only 200 feet from the town line across the border in Whiteclay, Nebraska. For the past dozen years, those who advocate shutting down those liquor stores have taken part in the “March for Justice.”

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Sheridan County agrees to settlement in jail suicides

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Published Friday May 7, 2010
BY TIMBERLY ROSS (The Associated Press)
RAPID CITY JOURNAL

OMAHA – Sheridan County has agreed to pay $100,000 to a grieving mother and improve suicide-prevention policies at its jail as part of a settlement over deaths there, an attorney in the case announced Thursday. (more…)

New details in decade-old Whiteclay killings

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Published  Monday, August 31, 2009
BY CARSON WALKER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The FBI has released new details in hopes of stirring up leads in the decade-old slayings of two American Indian men from South Dakota whose bodies were found near the Nebraska border. (more…)

Death of Seth Gibbons in Whiteclay

Friday, August 6th, 2004

Obituary from the Rapid City Journal, August 6, 2004

Seth W. Gibbons MANDERSON – Seth W. Gibbons, 51, Manderson, died Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004, in White Clay, Neb. (more…)

“We need to keep the booze out…”

Tuesday, July 6th, 1999

Published Tuesday July 6, 1999
BY JODI RAVE
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Within about 24 hours of reopening, beer store owners
in Whiteclay, near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, shut
their doors again Monday afternoon. (more…)