Month: July 2023

A tragic head-on collision occurred on Interstate 90, approximately 18 miles west of Kadoka, resulting in one fatality and two injuries. The crash involved a 2020 Hyundai Elantra traveling in the wrong direction on the [Read More…]

Name Released in Hanson County ATV Accident

Hanson County authorities have identified the victim of a fatal ATV accident that occurred on July 14 near Epiphany, South Dakota. The victim, 57-year-old John Zens from Canova, S.D., was driving east on 244th Street [Read More…]

Fatal Crash in Milbank Leaves One Dead and Another Injured

The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating a tragic crash in Milbank that occurred on a Saturday afternoon. A 2004 GMC Yukon XL traveling north on 5th Street South in Milbank veered onto the curb [Read More…]

Sending F-16s to Ukraine in fight against Russia would take ‘months and months’: Blinken

Henry Nicholls – WPA Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday cautioned that deliveries of the F-16s that Ukraine has long sought in its fight against Russia could take “months and months” [Read More…]

US surpasses 400 mass shootings so far in 2023: National gun violence website

Bill Hutchinson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A shooting that erupted in a Houston park over the weekend that left a pregnant woman dead and four other people injured marked the 400th mass shooting in the United [Read More…]

Alabama Republicans spark another legal fight by not creating 2nd majority-Black district

ilbusca/Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Setting the stage for another legal battle in their state, Alabama’s Republican-led Legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district and a second district that has [Read More…]

3 injured in shooting outside Philadelphia bar, police say

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Three people have been hospitalized after a shooting took place outside a bar in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening. All three people who were shot were [Read More…]

Severe heat forecast: Where scorching temperatures will persist over the next week

ABC News (NEW YORK) — An unrelenting heat dome continues to hover over the western United States this weekend, prompting heat alerts for tens of millions of residents. Heat advisories and warnings were issued for 40 [Read More…]

‘The Earth is screaming at us’: Gov. Inslee calls for climate action amid record heat

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The record-high temperatures recorded around the world show “the climate change bomb has gone off” and Americans must push “further and faster” for solutions — including voting against “climate deniers” like former [Read More…]

‘I worry’ about ‘price’ to get soldier Travis King back from North Korea, McCaul says

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said Sunday that he’s concerned North Korea will demand concessions from the United States in exchange for releasing American Travis King, the soldier who last [Read More…]

Local, Regional and National Sport stories

Vikings put pressure on replacements, after exits by mainstays Cook, Thielen, Kendricks

MINNESOTA VIKINGS (13-5) CAMP SITE: Eagan, Minnesota KEY ADDITIONS: Defensive coordinator Brian Flores, CB Byron Murphy, WR Jordan Addison, CB Mekhi Blackmon, OLB Marcus Davenport, DL Dean Lowry, TE Josh Oliver. KEY LOSSES: RB Dalvin [Read More…]

Christian Vásquez and Michael Taylor deliver key hits in 7th, lead Twins past White Sox 3-2

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Christian Vásquez drove in the tying run and Michael A. Taylor followed with an RBI single, all in the seventh inning, as the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 on [Read More…]

Mike Pence ‘not interested in trading insults’ with Trump as he tries to win New Hampshire

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NORTH CONWAY, N.H.) — An independent voter at a meet-and-greet in New Hampshire on Friday told former Vice President Mike Pence that he was concerned with his place in the polls — and [Read More…]

Four dead in Oklahoma triple murder-suicide, including 10-month-old

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (VERDIGRIS, Okla.) — An Oklahoma mother killed her three children, including a 10-month-old, and then shot herself in an apparent triple murder-suicide, authorities said. The Verdigris Police Department went to investigate [Read More…]

Pregnant woman killed, four others injured in shooting at Houston park

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images/STOCK (HOUSTON) — A pregnant woman was shot and killed after a fight broke out at a Texas park early Saturday, her family told ABC Houston station KTRK. Four other people were struck by [Read More…]

‘People are hungry for more choices’: Inside the Green Party’s push for 2024

Paul Marotta/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the 2024 presidential election heating up, debates over the role of third parties are beginning to simmer — and Democrats fear the Green Party could offer voters an enticing [Read More…]

New guidance suggests skipping Ozempic before surgery