Year: 2026
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Friday Sports: January 16, 2026
FRIDAY SPORTS, JANUARY 16, 2025 MITCHELL KERNELS — Mitchell Kernels basketball will be at Brookings on Friday night for a doubleheader starting with the girls game at 6 pm, followed by the boys at 7:30 pm. [Read More…]
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SDSU Rolls to a 90-44 Home Win Over Denver
BROOKINGS, S.D. – The South Dakota State women’s basketball team made quick work of Denver Thursday night in a 90-44 win over the Pioneers at First Bank & Trust Arena. The Jackrabbits built a double-digit lead [Read More…]
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Fens’ Monster Night Leads Coyotes to 99-83 Win Over Kansas City
VERMILLION, S.D. — For the second game in a row, Cameron Fens had a dominant showing as South Dakota basketball earned its ninth win in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center 99-83 over Kansas City Thursday night. Fens broke [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Anne Hathaway to star in Paramount+ true crime series ‘Fear Not’
Anne Hathaway attends the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 25, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images) Anne Hathaway is on board for a new Paramount+ limited series called Fear [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle futures higher waiting on widespread direct business
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were up waiting for the rest of the week’s business to develop. February live cattle closed $.90 higher at $236.05 and April live cattle closed $1.10 [Read More…]
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Whole milk goes back to school: Is butter next?
Wisconsin lawmakers are considering legislation that would make sure more real dairy butter can be served in more schools. Chad Zuleger with the Dairy Business Association says Wisconsin lawmakers are considering legislation that would require [Read More…]
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Soybeans gain on new export sales, solid weekly numbers
Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. Unknown destinations and China both bought U.S. soybeans ahead of the open. Unknown picked up a total of 545,000 tons, with 470,000 tons for 2025/26 delivery, and [Read More…]
Ag News
Transition to El Niño could bring more dry weather for Midwest
A shift to an El Niño weather pattern could mean drier-than-normal conditions persist in the Midwest. Jacob Dickey, meteorologist for WCIA-TV in eastern Illinois, tells Brownfield, “We’ve been hit the hardest by that drought.” He [Read More…]
Ag News
January WASDE report signals need for proactive grain marketing in 2026
A senior market advisor with Total Farm Marketing says the latest supply and demand report from the USDA caught the market off guard. Bryan Doherty says farmers need to use more proactive grain marketing plans. “We added an [Read More…]
ABC National News
3 deaths, dozens of illnesses linked to California poisonous mushroom outbreak: Officials
Minh Hoang Cong/500px via Getty Images (SONOMA COUNTY, Calif.) — Foragers are being warned of what could be the largest toxic mushroom outbreak in California history, which state health officials say has caused three deaths [Read More…]
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Uvalde sergeant recounts entering Robb Elementary with Gonzales
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) — Jurors on the trial of former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales listened to a firsthand account of the emergency response from a police sergeant who tried [Read More…]
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New state employee is ‘looking at the bookkeepers’ to catch and prevent problems, legislators learn
Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Half a dozen entities comb through South Dakota’s financial records each year to ensure a balanced budget or that details are accurately recorded. South Dakota Compliance Auditor Missy Lock, who was [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
3 more Democratic lawmakers say they are under federal investigation over illegal orders social media video
Rep. Jason Crow speaks to the media following a closed door meeting with members of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill, December 16, 2025 in Washington. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Three House Democrats [Read More…]
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What is the Insurrection Act that Trump is threatening to use against Minnesota protests?
Border Patrol agents deploy tear gas as they clash with residents in a residential neighborhood after a minor traffic accident, January 12, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) (MINNEAPOLIS) — President Donald Trump threatened [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Mia McKenna-Bruce says Sam Mendes’ Beatles films are ‘absolutely next level’
Mia Mckenna-Bruce attends the “The Fence” screening during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 18, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for BFI) Actress [Read More…]
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Here comes ‘The Bride!’ trailer, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale
Jessie Buckley as The Bride in Warner Bros. Pictures ‘THE BRIDE!’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures) Here comes The Bride! – back from the grave. The first trailer has been [Read More…]
ABC World News
Relative speaks out on plight of arrested Iranian protester Erfan Soltani, who had faced execution
Protesters rally on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Anonymous/Getty Images (LONDON) — Erfan Soltani is one of thousands of Iranian protesters who have been arrested amid deadly anti-government protests nationwide, according to his family [Read More…]
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Iran protests: US sanctioning Iranian officials over ‘brutal crackdown’
People gather during protest on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Demonstrations have been ongoing since December, triggered by soaring inflation and the collapse of the rial, and have expanded into broader demands for political [Read More…]
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Appeals court says judge had no jurisdiction to order Mahmoud Khalil’s release
Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday a judge had no jurisdiction to order Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released from immigration detention last summer, a decision [Read More…]
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Pokemon store robbed at gunpoint in Manhattan
A Pokemon store was robbed at gunpoint on Jan. 14, 2026, in New York. WABC (NEW YORK) — Three men robbed a Pokémon store in Manhattan on Wednesday, stealing $1,000 in cash from a register, [Read More…]
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