Gene Hetland

Some news outlets, including ABC News, are reporting that the siblings of the children killed in the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut could face what's known as "survivor's guilt."

Talk about adding tragedy to tragedy, when the innocent brothers and sisters of the innocent children who were killed find themselves feeling guilty

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OK, parents, you might want to shield your kids from this one.

But I never believed in Santa Claus, not even at the youngest possible age.

You could probably put this on on my parents, because they never encouraged me to somehow think Santa Claus brought our Christmas presents

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It's the latest in a string of far too many killings in schools. By mid-day Friday, one count at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut had 27 dead, 18 of them school children.

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Another effort may be made in the South Dakota Legislature's 2013 session to ban texting while driving across the entire state.

Attempts to pass a statewide ban have been defeated before , but State Senator Mike Vehle of Mitchell said this week he may be ready to try again

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I've written before about how I notice gasoline prices as I drive down any street.

I just do. It's a habit with me.

But one day this week my car was under half-full, so I stopped where the price was $3

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Some studies claim most Americans have regifted, at one time or another.
'Fess up now. Have you ever regifted anything?

I saw a story that says many Americans have--in fact, there are those who would tell you most of us have, at one time or another

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Just our luck. We finally get some snow, not a lot in the Sioux Falls area, but areas to the north of us got more.

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I saw a story recently that made me shake my head in amazement. Again.

Seems Pizza Hut has been working on perfume, or cologne if you will, that smells like pizza.

The story in the New York Daily News says it all started out as a joke with Pizza Hut in Canada (no surprise there)

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America marked the 71st anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks on Friday, with flags flying at half-staff and a gathering of two thousand people at the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Hawaii.

I was born 9 1/2 years after the bombing, but my dad used to talk about it

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