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Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) - Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker in the...
Jody Heemstra Feb 27, 2023 Hamner_Fotos / CC
American Farm Bureau: Inflation hits the backyard with record-high July 4 cookout costs
Americans will be gathering on the Fourth of July for a day of fireworks, food, parades and more. But as you celebrate with your friends and family this Independence Day, your cookout bill will be a b...
Jody Heemstra Jul 03, 2024
The wait for US passports is creating travel purgatory and snarling summer plans
WASHINGTON (AP) - A much-feared backup of U.S. passport applications has snarled summer plans for would-be travelers around the world. Somewhere around March, people who thought they were renewing or ...
Jody Heemstra Jul 06, 2023
North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police in DUI stop gets unsupervised probation and $1,000 fine
JANUARY 19, 2024: BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A North Dakota lawmaker who insulted police with vulgar, homophobic and anti-migrant comments during an arrest last month for drunken driving was sentenced to s...
Jody Heemstra Jan 19, 2024
South Dakota Housing awards nearly $30 million for affordable housing efforts; Developments in Kimball and Murdo among those getting funding
South Dakota Housing's Board of Commissioners has awarded (Dec. 12, 2023) nearly $30 million to assist South Dakotans with newly constructed multifamily housing, single family housing, multifamily reh...
Jody Heemstra Dec 16, 2023
Bison's relocation to Native lands revives a spiritual bond
NOVEMBER 22, 2022: BULL HOLLOW, Okla. (AP) - Bison nearly vanished from the Great Plains. Decades later, there's a nationwide resurgence of Indigenous tribes seeking to reconnect with the humpbacked, ...
Jody Heemstra Nov 22, 2022
USDA providing monies for climate-smart commodities, rural projects partnerships in South Dakota
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing up to $2.8 billion in 70 selected projects under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity, with projects fro...
Jody Heemstra Sep 15, 2022
Nashville shooter was ex-student with detailed plan to kill
MARCH 28, 2023: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed map ...
Jody Heemstra Mar 28, 2023
Settlement reached in lawsuit between Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' allies
MARCH 27, 2024: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney have reached a settlement agreement in a state court fight over how Walt Disney World is developed in the future fol...
Jody Heemstra Mar 27, 2024 Raymond Brown / CC
Inmate sentenced to more than 4 years in prison killing of Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger
AUGUST 1, 2024: CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday (Aug. 1, 2024) for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whi...
Jody Heemstra Aug 01, 2024 Steve Mays / CC