Fall River County States Attorney will be new Attorney General

Hot Springs’ Lance Russell addresses the SD Republican Convention just prior to winning the party’s nomination for attorney general. Photo by Seth Tupper/SD Searchlight
Hot Springs’ Lance Russell addresses the SD Republican Convention just prior to winning the party’s nomination for attorney general. Photo by Seth Tupper/SD Searchlight

RAPID CITY – This past weekend at the South Dakota Republican Convention in Rapid City, Lance Russell, the state’s attorney of Fall River and Oglala Lakota counties, won a three-way contest for the attorney general nomination that took two rounds of voting to decide.

Russell, a native of Edgemont who currently lives in Hot Springs, will be unopposed in the general election, because Democrats failed…