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Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to get rid of millions of disposable e-cigarettes that are considered hazardous waste. The devices contain nicot...
Jody Heemstra Oct 21, 2023 Vaping360 / CC
A nurse's fatal last visit to patient's home renews calls for better safety measures
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. (AP) - The killing of a visiting nurse in Connecticut is sparking renewed calls to better protect health care workers from what has been a rise in violence across the country. Joyce...
Jody Heemstra Dec 07, 2023
South Dakota Community Foundation reveals first round of 2021 Community Innovation Grant recipients
Round 1 of the South Dakota Community Foundation 2021 Community Innovation Grant program has been completed. Fourteen South Dakota nonprofits will receive grant awards. Offered in partnership with the...
Jody Heemstra Jun 07, 2021
From marching bands to megastars, the Super Bowl halftime show emerges as a major sports spectacle
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When the Super Bowl halftime show was born, college marching bands were the main on-field attraction. But over the years, the intermission during the NFL's annual championship game ...
Jody Heemstra Feb 03, 2024
High-speed trains begin making trip between Orlando and Miami
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A privately owned high-speed passenger train service has been launched between Florida's two biggest tourist hubs. The Brightline train is a $5 billion bet by ...
Jody Heemstra Sep 26, 2023 Phillip Pessar / CC
South Dakota legislator calls for inquiry into Gov. Noem's Texas dental trip and promo video
MARCH 14, 2024: UNDATED (AP)- A Democratic legislator on Wednesday (March 13, 2024) called for an inquiry into South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's trip to Texas for dental work and a promotiona...
Jody Heemstra Mar 14, 2024
Noem delivers FY2021 budget proposal
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has offered her budget proposals for the next year while acknowledging that money is tight and instructing state agencies to reduce spendin...
Dec 03, 2019
Trump signs executive order allowing meat processing plants to open
WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to keep meat and poultry processing facilities ope...
Jody Heemstra Apr 29, 2020
USDA Announces Major Program Improvements, Progress, and Investments to Benefit American Farmers, Ranchers, and Producers
At the American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention today (Jan. 9, 2023), US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced several major developments at the U.S. Department of Agriculture that will...
Jody Heemstra Jan 09, 2023
Poll shows most US adults think AI will add to election misinformation in 2024
NEW YORK (AP) - A majority of American adults think artificial intelligence tools will increase the spread of false and misleading information in the 2024 presidential election. That's one of the find...
Jody Heemstra Nov 04, 2023