Year: 2025
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Attorney General Jackley Encourages Shoppers To Watch for Holiday Scams
Attorney General Marty Jackley is warning holiday shoppers this season to watch out for scammers as well as low prices. “Scammers never take off the holidays,” said Jackley. “Consumers need to be careful whether they [Read More…]
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Class AA State Volleyball Tournament – Semifinals Results
Class AA State Volleyball Tournament – Friday, November 21 in Rapid City No. 4 Sioux Falls Lincoln 3, No. 8 Mitchell 2, (26-24, 23-25, 25-18, 20-25, 15-9) Lincoln (20-6) leaned on a balanced attack, finishing [Read More…]
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Class A State Volleyball Tournament – Semifinals Results
Class A State Volleyball Tournament – Friday, November 21 in Rapid City No. 4 Clark/Willow Lake 3, No. 8 Wagner 0, (25-23, 28-26, 25-16) The Cyclones (26-2) finished with 40 kills, led by Shelby Begeman’s [Read More…]
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Class B State Volleyball Tournament – Semifinals Results
Class B State Volleyball Tournament – Friday, November 21 in Rapid City No. 4 Parkston 3, No. 8 Herried/Selby Area 0, (25-22, 25-13, 25-21) The Trojans (31-7) were powered by Keeara Oakley, who delivered a [Read More…]
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South Dakota Football Coaches Association’s 2025 All-State High School Football
Class 11AAA OFFENSE Quarterbacks — Brody Schafer, SF Lincoln. Tight Ends-Fullbacks-HBacks — Eddie Whiting, SF Jefferson; Austin Dowd, Brandon Valley and Weiland Benbo, RC Central. Running Backs — Daevion Simonsen, SF Jefferson; Levi Veskrna, Brandon Valley; and Josiah [Read More…]
Ag News
U.S. sets new corn and ethanol export records
It was a record year for some corn-related exports. Ellen Zimmerman, director of industry relations with the U.S. Grains & Bioproducts Council, tells Brownfield, “We hit a record for corn exports, 72 and a half [Read More…]
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Panel discusses Trump trade, tariffs
Are the Trump administration’s trade policies helping the agriculture sector? That’s what the nation’s farm broadcasters and journalists asked a group of leaders from U.S. commodity groups Wednesday. Gregg Doud from the National Milk Producers [Read More…]
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Jacks ride dominant second quarter to 72–63 win over Gonzaga
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota State women’s basketball built a decisive first-half surge and held off multiple Gonzaga pushes down the stretch, defeating the Bulldogs 72–63 on Thursday night at the Pentagon in Sioux [Read More…]
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SDSU’s Zgonc and USD’s Farris earn the final Summit VB weekly accolades of the 2025 season
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota State outside hitter Sylvie Zgonc and South Dakota defensive specialist Kamryn Farris were named the final Summit League Kwik Star Volleyball Peak Performers of the Week, league officials announced Thursday. Zgonc [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Colleen Hoover opens up about ‘It Ends With Us’ legal drama
Colleen Hoover attends the ‘It Ends With Us’ New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on August 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/WireImage) It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover is [Read More…]
News
Defending Local Journalism: Understanding the Work Behind the News
Travis Kriens, KORN News Radio In our community conversations about the local newspaper, it’s easy to get frustrated. Headlines that seem negative, stories that feel one-sided, and the tension between public officials and the press, [Read More…]
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Previewing the 2026 South Dakota Legislative session in Mitchell
Newly minted South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Ryan Budmayr presented his first 2026 legislative preview to the Mitchell Rotary Club. He believes tax increment finance districts, property tax relief and data centers [Read More…]
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Zachariasen Leads No. 1 Harrisburg Past Mitchell in AA Quarterfinal Sweep
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Top-seeded Harrisburg moved into the Class AA semifinals with a straight-set win (25-8, 25-9, 25-18) over Mitchell on Thursday at the Monument, controlling the match start to finish behind a dominant [Read More…]
ABC National News
Former congressional staffer accused of faking politically motivated attack
Greene has been charged with one count of conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and one count of making false statements to federal law enforcement for alleging she was the victim of a politically [Read More…]
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Ashlee Buzzard’s false imprisonment charge dropped, daughter Melodee still missing
The FBI and Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office are looking for missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard. FBI (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) — A false imprisonment charge has been dropped against Ashlee Buzzard, the mom of missing 9-year-old [Read More…]
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Ohio police officer on leave after shooting unarmed man multiple times, investigation underway: Officials
A police officer in Ohio is on leave after shooting an unarmed man multiple times, Nov. 11, 2025, with an investigation into the incident now underway, according to officials. Akron Police Department. (AKRON, Ohio) — [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump calls Dems’ video to service members ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Thursday called several Democratic veterans and national security specialists “traitors” who should face the death penalty for releasing a joint video where they said that U.S. service [Read More…]
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Trump, Mamdani to meet in Oval Office as mayor-elect pushes affordability agenda
BG048/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (WASHINGTON) — Friday will mark the first time that New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump will meet face to face following a war of words between the two leaders [Read More…]
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Texas redistricting case turns ugly as judge dissents 15 times
Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — When a federal court Tuesday dropped its bombshell 160-page decision invalidating Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting effort as blatant racial gerrymandering, there was one big missing piece of the puzzle: [Read More…]
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Leighton Meester, Jared Padalecki to star in Netflix holiday rom-com
Leighton Meester (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images); Jared Padalecki (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images) Another BookTok favorite is coming to your TV screens. Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki are set to star in Netflix’s [Read More…]