Month: April 2021

On 4-25-2021 between 1:30 AM and 3:30 AM an unknown person(s) forcibly entered an apartment in the 800 block of North Minnesota and stole cash from the residence. If you have information in relation to [Read More…]

Four South Dakota Workforce Education Grants, totaling $690,245, have been awarded to four South Dakota public school districts. In 2013, the South Dakota Legislature established the Workforce Education Fund. Part of that fund was designated [Read More…]

The South Dakota Department of Health has confirmed the P.1 variant, also known as the ‘Brazil variant” of COVID-19, has been detected in South Dakota. The findings were verified by an out-of-state commercial laboratory, and [Read More…]

The South Dakota Department of Transportation says work for the installation of traffic lights and signals will begin on Monday, April 26, 2021. The project is located at the junction of S.D. Highway 37 and [Read More…]

Authorities are treating a Sunday evening fire at an abandoned house as suspicious in nature. Mitchell Fire Marshal Shannon Sandoval says firefighters arrived within in minutes of the 911 call at 212 West Fourth Avenue. [Read More…]

KORN News Radio was recently honored with three Eric Sevareid Awards of Merit from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association. The awards were in the Small Market Radio division for Newscast, Series and Social Media. In [Read More…]

It didn’t take long for the Watertown Development Company to name a new executive director. Less than two weeks after Chris Schilken left the job, its been announced that Mark Vaux will replace him. Vaux [Read More…]

Avera Queen of Peace Hospital will host a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinic from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 23, in the Avera Patient Financial Services building located at 1308 West 15th Avenue (on [Read More…]

Friend De Coup earned Grand Champion, Best Vocals and Best Choreography awards during the 2021 Show Choir Live Virtual Competition on April 10. Twenty-eight choirs from Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, South [Read More…]

–Beginning on April 24, South Dakotans are encouraged to start using 10-digit dialing (605 area code + phone number) to make all local phone calls. This transition is a necessary first step in the Federal [Read More…]

Mooneydriver/iStockBY: HATEM MAHER, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — The United Arab Emirates named mechanical engineering graduate Nora AlMatrooshi as the first Arab female astronaut, a selection that she described as an “unforgettable moment.” AlMatrooshi was [Read More…]

Mlenny/iStockBY: ANSELM GIBBS, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Much of St. Vincent remains covered in ash following eruptions Friday at the island’s La Soufriere volcano. The volcano has been inactive for nearly 42 years. “There [Read More…]

kali9/iStockBY: JON HAWORTH, ABC NEWS (HONOLULU) — A man who barricaded himself in a Honolulu hotel room after allegedly firing multiple shots has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. Honolulu Police Department Captain [Read More…]

TeslaBY: MORGAN KORN, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Electric vehicles are transforming how Americans “refuel.” There are changes happening inside the cabin, too. No more start/stop buttons. Radio dials now programmed into massive tablets that [Read More…]

ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Since Friday, there have been at least 350 reports of severe weather across the southern U.S. This includes five reported tornadoes — one in Louisiana, two [Read More…]

LSU Police DepartmentBY: MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Authorities and volunteers are searching for a missing Louisiana State University student whose car was found abandoned on a Mississippi River bridge in Baton [Read More…]

WABC-TVBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A man was arrested for allegedly threatening to stab an Asian undercover police officer in the face at Penn Station in New York City. On Friday, Juvian [Read More…]

Danny Lawson – WPA Pool/Getty ImagesBy ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) — The funeral for Britain’s Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, will be held April 17 and limited to 30 guests, Buckingham [Read More…]

kali9/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah) — Two deputies are injured and a suspect is dead following a shooting outside a sheriff’s office in South Salt Lake, Utah, authorities said. The shooting [Read More…]

narvikk/iStockBY: ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — There’s been a flurry of news about vaccine “passports” of late. New York State created its own digital pass; Florida and Texas attempted to outlaw them; and Baltimore’s former health commissioner wrote that we [Read More…]