Sioux Falls

From far away it looked as if a bottle of red wine had been spilled along the icy gravel, an image Lee Litz would not soon forget. He was test-driving a Jeep near a cornfield on the outskirts of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, when he saw it: a deep red blanket protruding from a ditch.

A 3-year-old service pup in the US has fulfilled the adage that a dog is a 'man's best friend' when she came to the aid of her anxiety-prone owner on her wedding day.

South Dakota prison officials on Tuesday night executed a man convicted of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl he abducted from a Sioux Falls convenience store in 1990, a state corrections department spokesman said.

From far away it looked as if a bottle of red wine had been spilled along the icy gravel, an image Lee Litz would not soon forget. He was test-driving a Jeep near a cornfield on the outskirts of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, when he saw it: a deep red blanket protruding from a ditch.

A 3-year-old service pup in the US has fulfilled the adage that a dog is a 'man's best friend' when she came to the aid of her anxiety-prone owner on her wedding day.

South Dakota prison officials on Tuesday night executed a man convicted of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl he abducted from a Sioux Falls convenience store in 1990, a state corrections department spokesman said.