Year: 2023
Latest News
Nursing home complaints in South Dakota up 38% since last year
Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight – Complaints against South Dakota nursing homes are the highest they’ve been in at least eight years. The state Department of Health oversees 97 long-term care facilities, according to its website, [Read More…]
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Decline in K-12 Enrollment in South Dakota for Fall 2023
The South Dakota Department of Education reports a decrease of more than 600 students in both public and private K-12 schools for the fall 2023 academic year. Factors contributing to the decline include post-COVID-19 attendance [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Former assistant accuses Vin Diesel of sexual battery
Universal A report in Vanity Fair says a former assistant to Vin Diesel is suing the star, claiming he sexually battered her in the fall of 2010. The incident reportedly happened in Atlanta while she [Read More…]
Ag News
NCBA president bullish on cattle market
The president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is extremely bullish about the cattle market the next few years. Todd Wilkinson owns a cow-calf operation near De Smet in east-central South Dakota. “In terms of [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybeans move lower heading into Friday
Soybeans closed lower as contracts remain under pressure from the wetter-than-anticipated forecast for Brazil. Rains are expected to move in later than originally thought but now hang around into January. Love moves in soybean products, [Read More…]
Ag News
Bicameral lawmakers press OMB to finalize E15 rule
The Biden administration is being pressed by lawmakers to finalize a rule that would allow year-round E15 sales in eight Midwestern states. A bipartisan and bicameral group sent a follow-up letter urging EPA and the [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: December 21, 2023
Mar. corn closed at $4.72 and 1/2, up 2 and 3/4 centsJan. soybeans closed at $12.97 and 1/4, down 11 centsJan. soybean meal closed at $395.40, down $4.50Jan. soybean oil closed at 49.04, down 152 [Read More…]
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Milk futures and cash dairy lower again Thursday
January Class III milk futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange down 16 cents at $15.44. February 22 lower at $15.52. March off 17 at $16.27. April through June futures up 2 to down 14. Dry [Read More…]
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Operation Round-Up® grant recipients announced
Central Electric Cooperative is awarding $13,800 in Operation Round-Up grants to support area projects. Through Operation Round-Up, participating cooperative members round up their monthly electric bill to the next whole dollar, and the contributions are [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Barbie’, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘Oppenheimer’ among new potential Oscar nominees
‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ – Marvel Studios On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced more potential Oscar nominees. Among them are hopefuls in the categories of Makeup and Hairstyling, [Read More…]
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Rachel McAdams answers why she’s missing from ‘Mean Girls’ reunions
Photo by CBS via Getty Images Rachel McAdams has sounded off on why she won’t appear in the Mean Girls musical movie — or those viral Walmart ads that snagged her co-stars Lindsay Lohan, Amanda [Read More…]
Ag News
High oleic trait expands this winter
The director of licensing and commercialization at Missouri Soybeans says a non-GMO high oleic soybean trait is expanding its presence this winter. Bryan Stobaugh tells Brownfield there will be new maturity groups for northern varieties [Read More…]
ABC World News
Change in landscape for early hominids may have led to the development of speech, new study finds
Shizuka, a seven-year-old female Sumatran orangutan, seen in a cage before being transferred to Indonesia at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. CREDIT: SOPA Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Scientists have discovered what may have prompted early human [Read More…]
ABC National News
Prague university shooting: 15 killed, 24 wounded
kali9/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 15 people were killed and 24 were injured in a shooting at Charles University in Prague on Thursday, according to Prague’s head of police. The suspect — a [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Jeff Meyerink Appointed Dakota Wesleyan Head Golf Coach
Mitchell, S.D. – Dakota Wesleyan athletic director Jon Hart has officially announced the appointment of interim head golf coach Jeff Meyerink as the men’s and women’s head golf coach. Meyerink stepped into the interim role just before the [Read More…]
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Sioux Falls Police Resolve Standoff, Arrest Suspect in Home Invasion and Assault
Sioux Falls police successfully apprehended a male suspect involved in a Thursday morning standoff after he forcibly entered a home, assaulted two victims, and threatened one with a gun. The incident prompted the closure of [Read More…]
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Brain development science bolsters calls for quality preschool in South Dakota
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories on children that Jackie Hendry, producer and host of South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s “South Dakota Focus” will write for South Dakota News Watch. Each month, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Timeline: Special counsel’s probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election
Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures at the end of a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. CREDIT: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A UPS delivery driver [Read More…]
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DeSantis wishes Trump was never indicted, says it ‘distorted the primary’
Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, with his family by his side, speaks to guests during the Scott County Fireside Chat at the Tanglewood Hills Pavilion on December 18, 2023 in Bettendorf, Iowa. CREDIT: [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Wells Fargo workers form first union at a US megabank
Wells Fargo logo is seen on the building in Los Angeles, United States. Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Workers at a Wells Fargo branch in New Mexico voted to form a union late Wednesday, [Read More…]
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