Victoria Wicks
Former SDPB Freelance Reporter/ProducerRapid City freelancer Victoria L. Wicks has been producing news for SDPB since August 2007. She Retired from this position in March 2023.
She has been a newspaper reporter, and she spent about 14 years advocating for crime victims in Rapid City and Aberdeen.
Victoria is also a creative writer; several of her short stories have been published, one of them in an anthology titled Fishing for Chickens: Short Stories about Rural Youth.
In addition, Victoria is a visual artist, creating pottery, watercolors, oil and acrylic paintings, and photographs. She holds a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of South Dakota.
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The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the rape conviction of a Watertown man who tried to use the defense of advance consent. -
A bill to make unmarried fathers equally responsible for medical bills for a pregnancy has been unanimously passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. -
At a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, officials from the Department of Revenue expressed concerns over Senate Bill 74. -
A bill that would mandate communication between law enforcement and schools is now working its way through the 2023 legislative session -
The Senate Judiciary committee heard testimony concerning a comprehensive package of laws from 2013 intending to find community alternatives to sending offenders to jail and prison. -
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has sponsored bills dealing with election laws -
The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to approve a study to find solutions on the rising cost of court-appointed attorneys. -
The Unified Judicial System is proposing a study of young adult offenders, to determine how to handle them in the criminal justice system. -
First Bank of Florida has argued that South Dakota courts don’t have jurisdiction to uphold the bank’s guarantee of funding in a beef deal. -
Two federal inmates have lost their bid for a new trial for a 2017 carjacking that resulted in serious bodily injury.
