Month: January 2022
ABC Health News
LA schools mandating non-cloth masks with nose wire, Atlanta district makes masks optional
MoMo Productions/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Students in Los Angeles public schools must wear a non-cloth mask with a nose wire at all times, including during sports, beginning Monday, the district announced in a letter [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Fauci optimistic omicron will peak in February
STEFANI REYNOLDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, said Sunday he is “as confident as you can be” about the prospect of most states reaching a [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Minnesota COVID patient, transferred to Texas after judge prohibited doctors from taking him off ventilator, dies
Glow Images/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — Battle against omicron variant pushes hospitals, health care workers to the brink COVID-19 cases have soared to new records with nearly 800,000 new infections per day. A 55-year-old Minnesota man, [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 1/23/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION New York 110, L.A. Clippers 102 Boston 116, Washington 87 Portland 114, Toronto 105 Orlando 114, Chicago 95 Miami 113, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court takes cases on future of affirmative action
Mark Wilson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions. The justices will hear [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House Republicans tout infrastructure funding they voted against
Michael Godek/iStock (WASHINGTON) — In November, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Virginia, was one of 205 House Republicans to vote against the bipartisan, $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, calling it irresponsible and the “Green New Deal in disguise.” [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Scale of education lost ‘nearly insurmountable,’ UNICEF warns
John Moore/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 866,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
ABC National News
Police investigate homicide of six people found dead at Milwaukee home
Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images (MILWAUKEE) — Six people were found dead at a home in Wisconsin’s largest city in what police are investigating as a homicide. Officers were conducting a welfare check at a [Read More…]
ABC National News
Another violence interrupter killed in Baltimore as community reels from gun violence
Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — A man who worked on the front lines of preventing gun violence in Baltimore, Maryland, was shot and killed on Wednesday night in a [Read More…]
ABC World News
Stowaway survives 11-hour flight in wheel well from Africa to Europe
Jaromir Chalabala / EyeEm/Getty Images (AMSTERDAM) — A stowaway was found alive in the nose wheel well of a cargo airplane that traveled from South Africa to the Netherlands on Sunday, according to Dutch police. [Read More…]
ABC World News
State Department orders diplomats’ families to leave US embassy in Kyiv amid Russia tensions
Anna MarchenkoTASS via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The State Department ordered diplomats’ families Sunday afternoon to depart the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid heightened fears of a Russian attack on the country. The embassy [Read More…]
Ag News
Missouri Soybeans winter district meetings
Soybean district meeting in Lamar, Missouri District soybean meetings have begun across the state. Outreach and education director Baylee Siegel says that this year’s in-person gatherings are a welcome change and a touchpoint between farmers [Read More…]
Ag News
Manure could offer crop farmers “best bang for your buck”
The value of manure is being accentuated by high fertilizer prices. University of Minnesota Extension specialist Melissa Wilson reminds crop farmers manure contains all the major nutrients and could provide “the best bang for their [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Chiefs rally past Buffalo 42-36 in OT in wild playoff game
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In a never-say-die showdown between two of the NFL’s top teams, and two of its bright young quarterbacks, the Bills and Chiefs played a classic Sunday night decided by one [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Gay’s 30-yard FG lifts Rams over Brady, Buccaneers 30-27
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Stafford stood on the sideline helplessly watching Tom Brady be Tom Brady, leading another exhilarating comeback. This time, though, the seven-time Super Bowl champion left too much time on the [Read More…]
Latest News
Spearfish man charged in shooting death of his wife
SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — A Spearfish man is accused in the shooting death of his wife early Saturday morning, authorities said. Dreau Rogers, 33, has been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the [Read More…]
Latest News
Man arrested for DUI after crashing vehicle into police car
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A man was arrested for DUI after his vehicle struck a Sioux Falls Police car. The Argus Leader reports it happened about 1:20 a.m. Friday. Police say an officer saw a vehicle [Read More…]
News
South Dakota Health Department Begins Statewide Distribution of One Million Free COVID-19 Tests
The South Dakota Department of Health has begun operations to promptly and efficiently distribute one million Flowflex® COVID-19 Antigen home tests to sites across the state. The first batch of 187,500 FDA-authorized tests kits arrived [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
SDSU Men stay perfect in Summit; topples W. Illinois
MACOMB, Ill. (AP) — Baylor Scheierman scored 17 points and Zeke Mayo and Douglas Wilson scored 15 apiece and South Dakota State remained unbeaten in Summit League play beating Western Illinois 93-75 on Saturday. Matt [Read More…]
Latest News
Noem’s school ‘prayer’ bill rejected by House Republicans
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A Republican-dominated South Dakota House committee on Friday rejected Gov. Kristi Noem’s proposal to require public schools to have a moment of silence to start the day. The Republican governor first [Read More…]
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