Gene Hetland

This is it: My annual "argument" with frigid weather.

You might like the cold--I don't know, but if you do, good for you.

And it's not as though I would want to live anywhere else, because I don't

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Sioux Falls Police say they had reports of 64 crashes between 5:30 a.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday, and 12 more between 7:45 a.m. and 9 a.m. Thursday.

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Police say a man whose car struck a power pole Monday afternoon on North Marion Road in Sioux Falls was found a few hours later in a house where he had allegedly forced his way in.

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The South Dakota Highway Patrol is reminding motorists to drive carefully over the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

Captain Kevin Joffer says traffic will be heavy, so motorists need to be prepared for changes in weather and road conditions

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A Sioux Falls woman in her sixties is out $400 after a scam that began in India.

Police Information Officer Sam Clemens says the woman got a call telling her something was wrong with her computer.

He says the caller was able to talk the 66-year-old woman into downloading software that allowed him access to her computer

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Call it fair warning for motorists in South Dakota.

The Highway Patrol says sobriety checkpoints will be conducted in 18 counties in the state during the month of December, some in or near the Sioux Falls area, some at the other end of the state and some in-between.

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Four cases of counterfeit cash were reported in Sioux Falls over the weekend, but police have not yet determined whether the cases are related.

Spokesman Sam Clemens says bogus 20-dollar bills were reported at the V-I-P Casino on South Cliff Avenue, where they reported two such bills, a Shop N Cart on East 12th Street, Taylor's Pantry on South Minnesota Avenue and Casey's on East 10th Street, where they also had two counterfeit 20s

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I saw a story on the Associated Press that got me to thinking. If cell phone use on airplanes is expanded by the FAA, does that mean the loud-mouth jerks who talk loudly on their phones in stores will be allowed on airplanes, too?

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I said a while back I would do this, and so here they are - my memories of President Kennedy's funeral, 50 years later.

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The State Attorney General's office says former South Dakota Tourism and Economic Development Secretary Richard Benda of Sioux Falls died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and that no evidence of foul play has been found

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