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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This summer a legislative study on Juvenile Justice has focused heavily on keeping kids in school to prevent them from turning to crime. The committee has also focused on mental health problems and the severe dearth of treatment in South Dakota. -
A former Fall River County Sheriff’s deputy is appealing the length of his federal sentence to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. -
In his lawsuit, Sheck Mulbah said the stop was extremely traumatic for him, a Black man stopped at night by a white officer with an aggressive dog barking at him.
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The state is appealing a U.S. District Court decision that a state law requiring initiated measure petitions to be delivered to the Secretary of State a full year before the general election violates petitioners’ free speech.
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NewsA Watertown man convicted of third-degree rape for having sex with his unconscious girlfriend is appealing to the South Dakota Supreme Court. -
NewsThe South Dakota Supreme Court hears arguments on the the conviction of Manegabe Ally after a habeas court found in his favor. -
The South Dakota legislature’s interim study on regional jails has resulted in a number of potential solutions to the lack of beds in jails and prisons. Its last in-person meeting was held earlier this week. Now the committee will draw up its recommendations to the 2023 state legislature for possible action. -
The mayor of Mobridge in Walworth County says he wants a regional jail built in his city, in part to house prisoners from other jurisdictions to try to make a profit. -
A Lincoln County Commissioner says jail overcrowding has been exacerbated by reforms that favor probation rather than prison for low-level felons. -
The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Sioux Falls man whose victim, his girlfriend, did not testify against him at trial.
