Month: December 2025
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A long-awaited homecoming at Dakota Wesleyan University
Following a long absence, a bronze bust of Senator George McGovern is back home to stay. Dakota Wesleyan University Professor Joel Allen is Director of the McGovern Center. He says sculptor Dale Lamphere originally loaned [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Friday Sports: December 19, 2025
FRIDAY SPORTS, DECMEBER 19, 2025 MITCHELL KERNELS — Mitchell Kernels basketball hosts Rapid City Stevens for a doubleheader at the Corn Palace on Friday night. The girls game starts at 6 pm, followed by the [Read More…]
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South Dakota Women Pick Up 71-44 Win Over UTRGV in Malibu Classic
MALIBU, Calif. – The Coyote women’s basketball program snapped a three-game losing skid with a 71-44 win over UTRGV Thursday evening inside Firestone Fieldhouse in Malibu, Calif. It had been a quiet last couple of [Read More…]
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Shutdown-delayed analysis shows rising unemployment in half the states; South Dakota has lowest rate
Tim Henderson/Stateline September unemployment rates rose in 25 states and fell in 21 compared with last year, the government reported Dec. 11 in a shutdown-delayed analysis. The largest increase compared with September 2024 was in Oregon, where [Read More…]
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State tallies $43,000 in trooper overtime costs during Operation Prairie Thunder
John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says a saturation patrol initiative has had a minimal impact on the Highway Patrol’s budget. Operation Prairie Thunder, announced in July by Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden, [Read More…]
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South Dakota state economist says sluggish farm economy has held back sales tax revenues
Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — South Dakota’s State Economist Derek Johnson told the state Banking Commission on Wednesday that a sluggish farm economy, driven by lower soybean, corn and wheat prices, has been [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Meyer Scores 27 in Loss at Duke
DURHAM, N.C. – The South Dakota State women’s basketball team dropped a 97-54 decision to Duke Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Jackrabbits move to 10-3 on the season while Duke is now 5-6. Brooklyn [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Kennedy Center to be renamed ‘Trump-Kennedy Center,’ White House claims
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Room of the White House on December 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump would be “addressing the country [Read More…]
ABC Health News
HHS proposes actions to limit access to gender-affirming care for minors
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. US [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Sinners’, ‘One Battle After Another’ among Barack Obama’s favorite movies of 2025
Former President Barack Obama moderates a conversation during the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum on December 05, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) President Barack Obama is out with a list of [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle futures lower ahead of USDA’s On Feed numbers
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were lower, watching direct business develop and ahead of Friday’s On Feed numbers from the USDA. February live cattle close d$1.15 lower at $228.40 and April [Read More…]
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Cattle producers urged to understand working capital position
A financial officer for Farm Credit Services of America says cattle producers need to know what their working capital is. Cody Griffin tells Brownfield, “In times like these, we’ve got a lot of dollars at [Read More…]
Ag News
A bridge to break-even
A professor at the University of Illinois says the Trump administration’s announced Farmer Bridge Assistance Program is expected to help many farmers get back to break even. Nick Paulsen tells Brownfield, “$50 give or take [Read More…]
Ag News
Wide basis and rising costs shaping 2026 crop decisions in northeast Nebraska
A northeast Nebraska farmer says market uncertainty is making it harder to plan for 2026. Adam Boeckenhauer says he won’t be shifting to more soybean acres because of demand concerns. “We’ll be a little heavy [Read More…]
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Corn extends gains as soybeans drift lower
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. Forecasts do have drier weather in parts of Argentina starting early next year, but conditions in the rest of South American mostly look good. That drier pattern [Read More…]
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Attorney General Jackley Secures Settlement with Menards On Deceptive Rebate Advertising
Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota will receive $102,888.64 as part of a multistate settlement with Menards to resolve claims the company deceptively marketed its merchandise credit check program (commonly known as the “Menards [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Odyssey’ gets new poster, its prologue to screen ahead of ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ in IMAX
Matt Damon as Odysseus on the poster for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’ (Universal Pictures) This isn’t an enchantment from a siren: there is a new poster for Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey. Universal Pictures shared the [Read More…]
Ag News
Sombke: rising input costs, consolidation threaten crop farmers
The president of the South Dakota Farmers Union says he’s concerned thinking about the farm economy heading in 2026. “It’s kind of like deja vu all over again.” Doug Sombke says the situation is like [Read More…]
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Ag partnerships help Illinois pork producers double food bank donations
The executive director of the Illinois Pork Producers Association says a long-standing partnership among several agricultural organizations is helping to feed those in need this holiday season. Jennifer Tirey says the Illinois Pork Power program [Read More…]
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Young farmer shares path to success
Wisconsin’s 2025 winner of Farm Bureau’s Farming for the Future award says the best advice for new farmers is to remember, farming is a business. Stephanie Abts and her husband Keith milk 225 cows, raise [Read More…]
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