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Bathke announces candidacy for the South Dakota House of Representatives from District 20
Jeff Bathke of Mitchell has announced he’s running for State Representative in the 2024 District 20 House race. Bathke started his career in the South Dakota Department of Corrections, spending over 17 years as a [Read More…]

City of Mitchell Requests to Withdraw Shooting Range Conditional Use Permit
When this project first started, a group of citizens who were interested in bringing the shooting range to Mitchell approached the City of Mitchell about being a partner to help see the project become a [Read More…]

Ground broken on $500-million dollar processing project
The dirt’s been turned on a $500-million dollar multi-seed processing plant two miles south of Mitchell. The facility will have the capacity to process 35-million bushels of soybeans annually or the equivalent of one-million tons [Read More…]

SDSU Extension 4-H Hall of Fame recipients honored
BROOKINGS, S.D. – The 4-H Volunteer Hall of Fame and 4-H Shooting Sports Volunteer Hall of Fame inducted seven new individuals on Sept. 3 during the 2023 South Dakota State Fair in Huron. The 2023 [Read More…]

Mitchell School Board president honored for service
Mitchell School District Board Member Deb Olson was honored by Associated School Boards of South Dakota with the Distinguished Service Award, which honors school board members for reaching milestone years in their service on their [Read More…]

Fatal crash Sunday morning in Charles Mix County
One person died early Sunday morning in a one-vehicle crash eight miles southeast of Wagner. The south Dakota Department of Public Safety says an SUV was traveling westbound on 299th Street west of S.D. Hwy. [Read More…]

DWU named to Prairie Business list of 2023’s 50 Best Places to Work
Dakota Wesleyan University has been named to the Prairie Business magazine’s list of 50 Best Places to Work for 2023. The list was announced Sept. 7. Employees throughout the region nominated their companies, highlighting some [Read More…]

Strong wind damages wall on Mitchell High School construction project
It looks like Mother Nature caused some issues with a section of the new Mitchell High School construction project. Superintendent Joe Childs says gusty northwesterly winds Tuesday damaged a wall. He says it was essentially [Read More…]

Judge to hear arguments for summary judgment in New York AG’s $250M lawsuit against Trump
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the New York attorney general’s $250 million fraud lawsuit are scheduled to appear in New York Supreme Court Friday [Read More…]

Scoreboard roundup — 9/21/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay 5, LA Angels 4 NY Yankees 5, Toronto 3 Cleveland 5, Baltimore 2 Detroit 7, Oakland [Read More…]

UAW president to make announcement on strike as deadline looms for GM, Ford, Stellantis
MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images (DETROIT) — A labor strike against the three largest motor vehicle manufacturers in the United States could expand if ongoing contract negotiations don’t move toward a deal by Friday. United [Read More…]

Commerce Department finalizes rule on national security ‘guardrails’ for CHIPS funding
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Commerce Department finalized the national security “guardrails” in which recipients who receive CHIPS and Science Act funding must abide by. The CHIPS and Science Act was passed last year [Read More…]

SAG-AFTRA backs ‘DWTS’ cast amid pressure from WGA: “They are required to go to work”
ABC Amid pressure from striking writers and picketers gathering outside the Dancing with the Stars rehearsal facilities, SAG-AFTRA is backing the show and its cast members. “Our members appearing on Dancing with the Stars are working under the Network [Read More…]

An mild to unseasonably warm pattern ahead; showery on parts of the Plains
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for near- or above-normal temperatures nationwide, except for cooler-than-normal conditions in the western Great Basin and Pacific Coast States. Meanwhile, above-normal precipitation across northern California, the Northwest, [Read More…]

Manhunt underway for convicted child sex offender who escaped from St. Louis hospital
St. Louis County Police Department (ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — Authorities have expanded their search for a murder suspect who was accidentally released from an Indiana jail due to a clerical error. Kevin Mason, 28, was [Read More…]

Two killed when bus carrying high schoolers crashes on way to band camp
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — At least two adults died when a bus carrying high school students from Long Island, New York, crashed while heading to band camp in Pennsylvania, state police said. Dozens were hurt [Read More…]

Body cam video shows aftermath of band leader’s arrest after being shocked by Birmingham police
Birmingham Police Department (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — New body camera video obtained by ABC News shows a conversation between Johnny Mims, a band director at Minor High School in Alabama, and a Birmingham Police Department (BPD) [Read More…]

Biden to announce White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
by Marc Guitard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday will announce the establishment of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to help reduce the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. “He [Read More…]

Zelenskyy lobbies Congress for Ukraine aid at center of GOP spending battle
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington on Thursday to make the case for $24 billion more in U.S. aid tied up in a showdown between House Republicans over spending. Zelenskyy’s [Read More…]

Accidental overdose killed ‘Euphoria’ star Angus Cloud
HBO/Eddy Chen Investigators have determined a cause of death for Euphoria star Angus Cloud on July 31, and it appears to have been a tragic accident. A representative for the Alameda County coroner’s office told [Read More…]

Soybeans drying fast in southern Minnesota
Soybeans are drying down rapidly in the Upper Midwest. Southwest Minnesota farmer Bill Gordon says he’s combining beans at under 12 percent moisture that are still quite green. “So when you’re looking at the field [Read More…]

Lawmakers hopeful farm bill can be completed by end of the year
There’s optimism in Congress a new farm bill can be completed by the end of the year. Minnesota Farm Bureau vice president Carolyn Olson took part in the Federation’s annual policy fly-in to Washington D.C. [Read More…]

Iranian president’s wife: Prison time for hijab law violations is ‘out of respect for women’
ABC News (LONDON) — The wife of the president of Iran defended a law passed this week designed to impose harsher sentences on women who do not wear hijabs in public, comparing the rules to [Read More…]

Series of Sexual Assaults Shake University of South Dakota Campus
Since the start of the semester on August 21, the University of South Dakota has reported four sexual assaults. These incidents, involving acquaintances of the victims, were disclosed to the University Police Department and subsequently [Read More…]

Lizzo and others sued by another employee alleging harassment, illegal termination
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lizzo and her team have been hit with another lawsuit claiming a hostile work environment, with allegations including racial and sexual harassment, disability discrimination, illegal retaliatory termination and assault, [Read More…]

Search for murder suspect mistakenly freed from Indianapolis jail expands to more cities
Marion County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Authorities have expanded their search for a murder suspect who was accidentally released from an Indiana jail due to a clerical error. Kevin Mason, 28, was sought for [Read More…]

Who killed Tupac? Latest developments in cold case explored in new ‘Impact x Nightline’
Raymond Boyd/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — Police searched a Las Vegas-area home in July in the long-dormant murder case of Tupac Shakur, the celebrated hip-hop artist who was shot and killed at the age of [Read More…]
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