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Biden pardons National Thanksgiving Turkeys while marking his 81st birthday with jokes about his age
NOVEMBER 20, 2023, UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) - Turkeys Liberty and Bell have new appreciation for the phrase, "Let freedom ring." The Thanksgiving birds played their part Monday (Nov. 20, 2023...
Jody Heemstra Nov 20, 2023
US Treasury Department releases report card showing record small business growth
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report card (Oct. 23, 2023) detailing how the Department's implementation of federal investments in entrepreneurs and small businesses - including those ...
Jody Heemstra Oct 23, 2023
National Chicken Council says new USDA FSIS Salmonella framework lacks data, research
OCTOBER 17, 2022: The US Department of Agriculture revealed its new regulatory framework in an effort it says would help reduce Salmonella illnesses associated with poultry products. "We support ...
Jody Heemstra Oct 17, 2022 U.S. Department of Agriculture
Black victims of violent crime disproportionately denied aid in many states, including South Dakota
UNDATED (AP)- Black people are disproportionately denied aid from state programs that reimburse victims of violent crime. That's according to an AP examination of data from 23 states that shows Black ...
Jody Heemstra May 17, 2023
South Dakota Housing awards $13.5 million for development of affordable living spaces
South Dakota Housing Development Authority's Board of Commissioners recently awarded more than $13 million to assist South Dakotans with newly constructed multifamily housing, single family housing, h...
Jody Heemstra Dec 07, 2022
Handpicked numbers were the golden ticket to the $1.13B Mega Millions jackpot in New Jersey
MARCH 27, 2024, UPDATE: NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) - Someone in New Jersey who bought a single ticket overcame the odds Tuesday night (March 26, 2024) and won the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot, breaking...
Jody Heemstra Mar 27, 2024
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
After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril
SHARON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Fifty years after the U.S. Endangered Species Act took effect, officials say 99% of the animals and plants it protects have survived. But some scientists and activists fe...
Jody Heemstra Aug 05, 2023 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / 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
Jerry Lee Lewis, outrageous rock 'n' roll star, dies at 87
UNDATED (AP)- The untamable and often outrageous rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has died at 87. Spokesperson Zach Furman said Lewis died Friday morning at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. Of all...
Jody Heemstra Oct 28, 2022 kait jarbeau / CC