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With a fresh incision curving along his hairline from temple to ear visible to all, former South Dakota Gov. Bill Janklow broke down and cried Friday as he announced that he's dying of brain cancer. But it wasn't the cancer that prompted the tears. It was recalling what he called the one regret of his life: a 2003 car wreck that killed a Minnesota man and ended Janklow's political career. "I know it's over. I know it's at the end of the trail, but I don't hurt," he said of the weeks-old cancer diagnosis. Janklow, 72, a Republican who dominated...

Stephanie Herseth is no longer the underdog. In fact, the newcomer candidate holds a slight edge over political powerhouse, Governor Bill Janklow in the race for South Dakota's seat in the U.S. House. It's the second KELOLAND News Election poll in which Herseth's held a slight lead. When the KELOLAND News Election poll showed registered South Dakota voters favored Herseth in August, the Janklow campaign said the Governor hadn't hit the campaign trail yet. Now with less than four weeks until the election, our exclusive poll shows Janklow still hasn't made up any ground. When Governor Bill Janklow entered the...

LAST YEAR--on August 16, 2003, speeding in a borrowed white Cadillac down one of those long, dusty South Dakota highways that glide across the plains like endless ribbons--a Republican congressman named Bill Janklow ran a stop sign at 70 miles per hour and killed a passing motorcyclist. It was a horrible incident, and it brought an end to Janklow's long domination of South Dakota politics. Though routinely reckless, he'd always gotten the good breaks before, pushing his luck so often that it must have seemed to him not luck at all but his right, his privilege, always to have things...

Will GOPer Pull Upset in South Dakota? by John Gizzi Posted May 28, 2004 With four days to go before the special U.S. House election in South Dakota, Republicans in the state and in Washington have begun to grow upbeat about retaining a seat they had privately written off less than a month ago. Almost since the resignation of Republican Rep. Bill Janklow following his conviction on manslaughter charges, Democrat Stephanie Herseth (who drew an impressive 46% of the vote against Janklow in '02) has appeared a slam-dunk. A win by lawyer Herseth--grand-daughter of a former governor, daughter of a...

Whiners of the year Michelle Malkin (archive) December 31, 2003 | Print | Send They made us groan. They made us grumble. They made us a global laughingstock. The whiners of 2003 embarrassed themselves -- and the nation -- with their unrivaled sense of entitlement, arrogance and shamelessness. Let's send them off with a 21-hankie salute and a collective kick in the pants: -- Human shields. Among the hundreds of Saddam Hussein's stooges around the world who volunteered to protect "strategic sites" in Iraq were 20 American antiwar activists. They knowingly violated U.S. sanctions against travel and commerce with Hussein's...

S.D. Congressman Found Guilty Of Manslaughter Janklow Charged With Speeding, Reckless Driving, 2nd-Degree Manslaughter POSTED: 7:44 a.m. EST December 8, 2003 UPDATED: 7:06 p.m. EST December 8, 2003 FLANDREAU, S.D. -- A South Dakota jury has found Rep. Bill Janklow guilty of all charges against him in a manslaughter trial. The jury foreman read "guilty" to each of the four counts: speeding, running a stop sign, reckless driving and second-degree manslaughter in the death of a motorcyclist. The last is a felony and carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Janklow...

Doctor Supports Rep. Janklow's Defense By CARSON WALKER Associated Press Writer FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) -- A doctor testifying in the manslaughter trial of Rep. Bill Janklow said he initially was skeptical about a medical defense, but changed his mind after examining Janklow, reviewing his medical records and discussing his activities in the hours before the crash. It's possible Janklow was suffering from low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, when he blew through a stop sign and collided with a motorcyclist, Dr. Fred Lovrien said. Janklow, 64, is charged with second-degree manslaughter, running a stop sign, reckless driving and speeding in the...

Mon November 10, 2003 05:45 PM ET FLANDREAU, S.D. (Reuters) - Prosecutors seeking to prove Rep. Bill Janklow sped through a stop sign and killed a motorcyclist cannot bring up the 64-year-old Republican's poor driving record at the trial, the judge ruled on Monday. At a hearing ahead of the former four-term governor's Dec. 1 trial on second-degree manslaughter and other charges, Moody County Circuit Court Judge Rodney Steele did allow prosecutors to use a woman's testimony that her vehicle was nearly struck by Janklow's a few months earlier at the same intersection. Janklow has pleaded innocent to the charges...

<p>Four days after saying he "couldn't be sorrier" for a traffic collision that killed a motorcyclist, Rep. Bill Janklow pleaded innocent Friday to manslaughter.</p> <p>The Republican former governor also pleaded innocent on three misdemeanor charges in the Aug. 16 wreck. Defendants in felony cases rarely enter guilty pleas during arraignments.</p>

<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) &#8212; U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow, speaking publicly for the first time since he was charged in a deadly crash, said he "couldn't be sorrier" for the August accident that killed a motorcyclist.</p> <p>The 64-year-old former governor talked about his own injuries from the crash, in which prosecutors said he ran a stop sign at 71 mph and collided with the motorcycle. He told reporters he thinks about his future but doesn't know yet what he'll do.</p>

Rep. Bill Janklow giving a press conference on FOX re: accident this summer where a motorcyclist was killed.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A survey done this week for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and KSFY-TV found that many South Dakotans believe Rep. Bill Janklow's political career should come to a halt if he is convicted of causing an accident that killed a motorcyclist. Many also think he has received special treatment in the investigation. The poll was conducted before Janklow was charged on Friday with second-degree manslaughter and three lesser charges. Only 12 percent of those questioned in the telephone poll said Janklow, if found guilty, should run for re-election, and just one in four said he should...

<p>Congress reconvened yesterday minus Rep. Bill Janklow, South Dakota Republican, who was charged last week with second-degree manslaughter for speeding past a stop sign and colliding with a motorcyclist.</p> <p>Even as whispered speculation swirled around the Capitol corridors that Mr. Janklow's political career is finished, Democrats and Republicans alike struck a solemn tone. Lawmakers offered condolences to everyone involved in the accident, advised against prejudging the Janklow case and declined to demand his resignation.</p>

It's all a big joke to Rep. Bill Janklow, the Republican congressman from South Dakota with a lead foot, a hollow heart and an ego the size of his Cadillac death-mobile. Conservatives with a conscience should be appalled that the powerful GOP representative, charged over the weekend with felony manslaughter in a fatal accident that killed a motorcyclist last month, refuses to step down immediately from office. For years, this man who belongs to the party of personal responsibility – the party of law and order – has made light of his law-skirting ways. A notorious speeder, he jested...

Congressman Charged With Manslaughter By CARSON WALKER The Associated Press Friday, August 29, 2003; 12:26 PM FLANDREAU, S.D. - U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow was charged Friday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of a motorcyclist earlier this month. Janklow was driving an estimated 70 to 75 mph when his Cadillac went through a stop sign at a rural intersection, according to a Highway Patrol accident report. The motorcycle hit the side of the congressman's car, and the rider, Randolph E. Scott, 55, of Hardwick, Minn., was killed. Moody County State's Attorney Bill Ellingson said the facts of the case establish...

<p>Thirteen days after a crash that killed a Minnesota motorcyclist, a prosecutor on Friday charged Rep. Bill Janklow with felony second-degree manslaughter and three misdemeanor offenses, including reckless driving.</p> <p>Moody County State’s Attorney Bill Ellingson said in a statement today that he had sufficient evidence “to establish probable cause” for the manslaughter charge. If convicted, the first-term congressman and former four-term South Dakota governor faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.</p>

A self-proclaimed speeder, Janklow got 12 speeding tickets in 11 South Dakota counties from 1990 to 1994 and paid more than $1,000 in fines. He often drove 15 mph to 20 mph faster than legal speed limits and once got caught going 90 mph in a 65-mph zone.

FLANDREAU, S.D. -- South Dakota congressman William Janklow was charged Friday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of a Minnesota motorcylist who collided with Janklow's car after Janklow allegedly ran a stop sign. The charge, a felony, is the most serious in South Dakota involving a motor vehicle accident when drugs or alcohol are not involved. Moody County, S.D., prosecutors accused Janklow in a criminal complaint of "the reckless killing of another human being" in the Aug. 16 accident. Investigators said Janklow was driving 70 to 75 miles per hour when he ran a stop sign and collided with a...

The Washington Post, in a front page story on Friday, declared that the career of Congressman Bill Janklow (R-SD) is over. Unfortunately, the Post's prediction is virtually certain to be correct. That having been said, I will always be grateful to Janklow for facing down the left at a key moment in our history. Janklow is perhaps South Dakota's most enduring politician. He was elected Attorney General of the state in the 1970s. Then, he was twice elected Governor. South Dakota's constitution forbids governors from serving more than two consecutive four-year terms. However, once a governor sits out four years,...

Rep. Bill Janklow was driving an estimated 70 to 75 mph when he ran a stop sign and his Cadillac collided with a motorcycle, according to an accident report released Wednesday by the South Dakota Highway Patrol. The speed limit on the road is 55 mph.Prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against the former four-term governor, who has exerted enormous political power over South Dakota politics for nearly 30 years.Highway Patrol officials said they would forward the results of the report to Moody County prosecutor William Ellingson, who will decide whether to bring charges.Janklow's son, Russ Janklow, said...