Month: July 2024
News
Company applies to build 68-turbine, $261 million wind project in northeast SD
South Dakota Searchlight An energy company has applied to construct another wind farm in northeastern South Dakota. The company is Chicago-based Invenergy. It wants to build up to 68 turbines through its South Dakota subsidiary, [Read More…]
ABC World News
‘Massive’ barrage of Russian missiles target Ukraine, killing 21 and striking children’s hospital
A Ukrainian firefighter works to extinguish a fire in a residential building following a missile attack in Kyiv on July 8, 2024. — Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 21 people were [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza live updates: US Embassy says American injured by Hezbollah rocket fire
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are pictured on June 4, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
ABC National News
Hurricane Beryl live updates: Storm makes landfall in Texas as Category 1 hurricane
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall along the Gulf Coast of Texas early Monday morning. The earliest Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in history, the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
2024 RNC platform could alter the GOP’s abortion position for the first time in decades
Signage promoting Milwaukee as the 2024 host of the Republican National Convention inside the Fiserv Forum during the Republican National Convention (RNC) fall media walkthrough in Milwaukee, Wis., on Nov. 30, 2023. — Al Drago/Bloomberg [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Boeing agrees in principle to deal with DOJ to plead guilty to misleading FAA during 737 MAX evaluation
Scott Olson/Getty Images (FORT WORTH, Texas) — The Boeing Company has agreed in principle to a deal with the Department of Justice that will include a guilty plea to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. related [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Despicable Me 4’ lights up Fourth of July weekend box office with $122.9 million debut
Illumination Despicable Me 4 topped the domestic box office, grabbing an estimated $122.9 million over the five-day Fourth of July weekend and an estimated $75 million over the traditional three-day weekend. All told, the Despicable [Read More…]
Ag News
Economists concerned about the state of the ag economy
A senior economist at The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says the ag economy is softening. Cortney Cowley says it all starts with farmer concern over low grain market prices. “We’re coming off of very [Read More…]
News
Disaster Reporting Deadline Approaching
Friday, July 12th is the deadline for submitting public infrastructure and personal damage claims from recent flooding to the State of South Dakota. Davison County Emergency Management Director Jeff Bathke says for the city, county [Read More…]
News
Harding County Fatal Crash
A 75-year-old man died Sunday morning from injuries in a single vehicle crash 30 miles north of Reva, SD. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says preliminary crash information indicates the driver of a [Read More…]
ABC National News
2 killed, 19 injured in Detroit block party shooting: Police
kali9/Getty Images (DETROIT) — At least two people were killed and 19 others were injured when gunfire erupted early Sunday morning at a block party in Detroit, according to police. The shooting unfolded at approximately [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden countering RNC with battleground state travel
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is planning to travel the country next week, as the Republicans gather for their nominating convention, to hold counterprogramming events targeting Black and Latino voters in [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Black churchgoers in Philadelphia come to Biden’s defense amid fallout over debate performance
Alex Wong/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — As President Joe Biden contends with the growing fallout from his debate performance, calls to drop out and criticism of his age, he found safe harbor at a Black church [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff tests positive for COVID-19, office says
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, his office announced. “Yesterday, the Second Gentleman tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Law enforcement prepares to secure national political conventions
ABC News (MILWAUKEE) — The smell of burning rubber is unmistakable during a U.S. Secret Service training exercise that will be critical to the security of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump during [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Wimbledon takes over New York City as the tournament expands beyond UK borders
Wimbledon (LONDON) — There is only one place in the world where you can be greeted by Wimbledon stewards and invited to immerse yourself in the quintessential experience of British tradition and fare, with iconic [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
California wildfires latest: Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in path of massive blaze
Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Firefighters battling flames amid a heat wave in Southern California are struggling to gain control of a wildfire that exploded over the weekend to more [Read More…]
ABC World News
Fears for leading anti-Kremlin activist after family says he was moved to a prison hospital
Julia Reinhart/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — The family of prominent jailed Russian pro-democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza is sounding the alarm after he was moved to a prison hospital and his lawyers said they were being denied [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Secret Service director: Current polarization ‘plays into’ threat environment
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle said Sunday that current political divisions play into the domestic threat environment as her agency prepares to protect both parties’ nominating conventions this summer. When asked [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Donald Trump will define 2024 RNC platform, committee members say
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The GOP’s first new platform since 2016 will also be the first truly defined by former President Donald Trump, Republicans who have served on the platform committee say. In 2016, [Read More…]