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Supreme Court: County right to deny poor-relief
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Sully County wasn’t required to pay for the emergency medical care that a nonresident person who was indigent received at Avera St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre, according to the South Dakota Supreme Court. The justices unanimously ruled for Sully County in a decision...
Tech company admits to causing widespread 911 outage in three states
A tech company on Thursday admitted that it was behind widespread 911 outages across three states.Lumen Technologies, which provides state-wide services to Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota, told The Independent a disruption to their network caused a two-and-a-half-hour 911 outage on Wednesday evening. Multiple Texas cities also reported outages around the same time, but Lumen Technologies does not service the state and the exact cause of their outages is unclear.Police departments in the affected states all reiterated similar issues that 911 calls appeared to be down on cellular carriers and in some areas, on landlines, but texts to the emergency...
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