Month: January 2025

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang will announce the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards. The two actors will come together live Thursday from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater to [Read More…]

Meyer Named Co-Player of the Week

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota State’s Brooklyn Meyer posted a 30-point game Saturday afternoon, earning her a share of this week’s Kwik Star Summit League Women’s Basketball Peak Performer of the Week honor. The Jackrabbits picked up an [Read More…]

SDSU’s Cluff Garners Fourth Summit League Weekly Honor

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota State center Oscar Cluff garnered his league-leading fourth Kwik Star Summit League Men’s Basketball Peak Performer of the Week honor of the season, League officials announced Monday. Cluff averaged a [Read More…]

Child care policy proposals return to Pierre

Jackie Hendry/SD News Watch BROOKINGS, S.D. – Nearly 40% of South Dakota’s child care programs have fewer kids enrolled than they can handle because of a shortage of workers, the latest South Dakota Child Care [Read More…]

Trump orders pardons and dismissals for Jan. 6 defendants, including South Dakotans

Ashley Murray/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday night issued sweeping pardons for nearly all Jan. 6 defendants, erasing accountability for those who violently tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results [Read More…]

Thune, Rounds vote yes as U.S. Senate sends immigration measure to House

Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — On the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. Senate Monday passed a bill that would require the expansion of mass detention for immigrants charged or arrested for property [Read More…]

43 states under cold weather alerts, blizzard warning in parts of Texas and Louisiana

An ABC News graphic shows the weather forecast on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — About 265 million Americans, or nearly 80% of the population, are under cold weather alerts on Tuesday, [Read More…]

Fire chief shot and killed after stopping to help driver who hit deer with their car

Facebook / Coweta County Fire Rescue (CHAMBERS COUNTY, AL) — A fire chief in Alabama has been shot and killed after he stopped to help a driver who had hit a deer with their vehicle, [Read More…]

Julia Stiles on her romantic directorial debut, ‘Wish You Were Here’

January 21, 2025 nedvedmedia

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Julia Stiles makes her feature directorial debut with Wish You Were Here, now playing in movie theaters. The journey to making her first film was long, but the actress-turned-director told ABC Audio [Read More…]

Renewable diesel boom leveling out

The director of economics for Clean Fuels Alliance America says the renewable diesel boom is projected to level out this year. Jonathan Martin tells Brownfield production and use of renewable diesel has skyrocketed since 2020. [Read More…]

Foreign worker visa denials adding to farm labor shortage

January 21, 2025 nedvedmedia

Finding good employees is hard, and keeping them is harder, especially if the farm is relying on foreign labor using visa programs. Lately, farming operations have been experiencing many more problems with the TN visa [Read More…]

Trump inauguration live updates: Trump to address supporters, sign executive orders

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At noon today, Donald Trump took the presidential oath for a second time, capping a historic political comeback to the White House. As he did on the campaign trail, Trump [Read More…]

Biden sparks outrage with last-minute commutation of man convicted of killing FBI agents

Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has sparked outrage after commuting the sentence of Leonard Peltier in a last-minute move before leaving office Monday. Peltier, 80, has spent nearly 50 years in prison [Read More…]

Biden gives farewell remarks: ‘We’re not leaving the fight’

January 20, 2025 Travis Kriens

Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Joe Biden told his staffers, “We’re not leaving the fight,” during farewell remarks following Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Biden referenced President Donald Trump’s inauguration remarks, which offered a [Read More…]

South Dakota High School Basketball Media Poll – January 20

The South Dakota Prep Media Basketball polls for the week of Jan. 20 are listed below, ranking the top-five teams in each class, record, total points and previous ranking. First-place votes received are indicated in [Read More…]

Trump to shift the course of US climate policy starting on Day 1

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump announced some energy and environmental policy priorities that represent a stark departure from U.S. climate policy [Read More…]

Trump administration to acknowledge only a person’s gender assigned at birth, officials say