Month: January 2024
News
Avera Queen of Peace Welcomes First Baby of 2024
Avera Queen of Peace Hospital is excited to share that Emerson Dahme was its first baby born in 2024. She was delivered at 9:58 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2, to Jacob and Michelle Dahme of Mitchell. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Second season of ‘Star Wars: Ahsoka’ in development
Lucasfilm Lucasfilm on Tuesday, January 9, confirmed that season 2 of the Disney+ series Star Wars: Ahsoka is in development with creator Dave Filoni. The news was part of a larger announcement that noted The [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Harrison Ford to be feted by Critics Choice Awards, and more
Actor Adan Canto, who starred in Fox’s series The Cleaning Lady and appeared as the mutant hero Sunspot in X-Men: Days of Future Past, has died at 42, according to the actor’s Instagram. The Mexican [Read More…]
Ag News
CONAB reduces Brazil soybean, corn crop estimates
Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA has lowered its soybean and corn production outlooks. CONAB says the month-to-month cuts were because of weather, with planting delays and development issues due to hot, dry conditions in central [Read More…]
Ag News
South Dakota’s governor wants to see action on foreign ag land ownership
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem referenced foreign ag land ownership in her state of the state address on Tuesday. “China and other evil foreign governments are executing a plan to own our ag land and [Read More…]
News
Sioux Falls Tackling Major Snow Removal
More than 100 equipment operators are hard at work removing nearly 11-inches of new snow in Sioux Falls. Emergency snow routes are open, and now crews are headed into neighborhoods to clear side streets. No [Read More…]
Latest News
Wounded Knee descendants decide not to burn artifacts
Amelia Schafer/Rapid City Journal/ICT RAPID CITY — More than 150 recently repatriated artifacts from the Wounded Knee Massacre were set to be burned. Instead, tribal leaders from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and later the Standing [Read More…]
Latest News
State changes child care subsidy policy to better support providers
A program meant to help low-income families pay for child care changed this month to better support providers. The change to the South Dakota Department of Social Services’ Child Care Assistance Program moved from an [Read More…]
Latest News
In State of State, Noem offers few new proposals while reviewing her record
Governor Kristi Noem delivers her State of the State speech at the Capitol in Pierre on Jan. 9, 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — Governor Kristi Noem recounted her administration’s [Read More…]
ABC World News
Gunmen storm Ecuador TV station after president declares state of emergency
An Ecuadorean police squad approach the premises of Ecuador’s TC television channel after unidentified gunmen burst into the state-owned television studio live on air on Jan. 9, 2024, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
ABC World News
US Navy and UK Royal Navy shoot down 18 Houthi drones and three missiles
KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy and the U.K.’s Royal Navy foiled a major Houthi attack Tuesday night in the Red Sea, shooting down 18 one-way drones and three missiles targeting commercial ships. The [Read More…]
ABC World News
Blinken announces deal to launch UN assessment mission in northern Gaza
Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz (2nd-R) in Tel Aviv, on Jan. 9, 2024, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East. (Evelyn Hockstein/POOL [Read More…]
ABC World News
Man pretending to be Queen Elizabeth’s footman, selling ‘antler walking stick’ that never belonged to her sentenced
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LONDON) — An internet seller who tricked eBay users into bidding for a walking stick that he falsely said belonged to Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced. Dru Marshall, a 26-year-old man [Read More…]
Latest News
Dispute Over Amicus Brief in Gymnastics Program Lawsuit Reaches Eighth Circuit Court
Supporters of the gymnastics program are urging the dismissal of an amicus brief filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation and American Sports Council on December 21. The gymnastics advocates argue that the assertions made in [Read More…]
Latest News
Financing Approved for Multiple Business Across the State, Including Little Learners in Mitchell
PIERRE, SD – The Governor’s Office of Economic Development Board of Economic Development approved multiple loans totaling more than $5.6 million at their monthly meeting. These projects will reflect a capital investment total of over $15.1 [Read More…]
Latest News
South Dakota PUC reduces NorthWestern Energy electric rate increase request
PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission approved a rate increase for NorthWestern Energy’s electric customers in South Dakota at the commission’s regularly scheduled meeting in Pierre today, Jan. 9, 2024. The rate [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘We were going to die’: Passengers on Alaska Airlines jet speak out about door plug catastrophe
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane is parked on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Passengers who [Read More…]
ABC National News
At least five dead after severe weather wallops US
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Severe weather across the United States on Tuesday has left at least five people dead, according to local authorities, and the latest forecast shows more winter storms are on [Read More…]
ABC National News
Over a ton of cocaine worth $32 million seized by US Coast Guard near Florida
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Diana Sherbs (NEW YORK) — The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Margaret Norvell seized over a ton of cocaine with an estimated street value [Read More…]
ABC National News
ATF director targeted with swatting call over the holidays: Sources
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is the latest public official to fall victim to a swatting incident, according to law enforcement sources. Steven Dettelbach was [Read More…]
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