Mike Stevens

A bill to require schools to hit statewide teacher pay targets has advanced from the state House of Representatives.

A bill to limit parole for violent offenders, known as the “truth in sentencing” bill, was given final legislative approval.

The House Judiciary Committee heard two Senate bills that arose from a summer interim study designed to improve juvenile justice in South Dakota.

In July 2013, Ronald Ray Fischer sped through a stop sign and killed two people who were standing in a Pickstown parking lot. First Circuit Judge Bruce…