Gene Hetland

Maybe you've seen or heard the story that The Associated Press carried.on Friday.

It seems a mail carrier in the Denver area reportedly walked past a dead man to deliver the man's mail. The man, according to the story, had collapsed and died by his front door

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The football game on Saturday between South Dakota State and North Dakota State in Fargo, ND is being wagered on by elected officials from the two states.

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It was only an e-mail, and kind of an advisory one at that, but there it was:

Annual Snow Alert TEST from the City of Sioux Falls.

It's just what we all need on a sunny November day. We can fool ourselves and talk about how nice the weather has been, but one look at the calendar drives it home

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The election is over, and with a few exceptions, the picture in Washington is going to be pretty much the same.

President Obama in his second term will have to find ways to work with a divided Congress who, despite all the talk of "reaching across the aisle" and "building bridges," could just wind up going on as it has before

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The South Dakota Division of Motor Vehicles has awarded six new site locations for motor vehicle registration self-service terminals (SST).
The 24-hour SST is a fully automated vehicle registration renewal station that dispenses license plate renewal tags on the spot

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All of the campaign ads, flyers, yard signs, political mailings and robo-calls are coming to an end.

And not a minute too soon.

I guess we get something like this every two years, or four years with the race for the White House

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An investigation is underway into the death of a Sioux Falls man whose apartment burned early Tuesday.

Police Information Officer Sam Clemens says 26-year-old Heath Deverne Westphal was removed from his apartment by Sioux Falls Fire Rescue crews who were called around 4am to a fire in an eight-unit apartment building at 1004 North Covell Avenue

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I heard it again last night:

"South Dakota's lone US House seat."

Right. South Dakota has one seat in the US House.

But why is it always our "lone" seat?

Can't it just be South Dakota's US House seat?

The offender of my sensibilities this time was a TV station, although usually it's a news service

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Two men are charged with felonies and sixteen are charged with misdemeanors after two investigations into commercial sexual activity in Minnehaha County.

State's Attorney Aaron McGowan says arrest warrants were served Tuesday afternoon and evening by a variety of agencies:

McGowan identified the men as

-Martin Marcus Gullickson

-Jonathan Dean Cahoy

-Troy Daniel Johnson

-David Meehan

-John Adam Planting

-David Carl Weipert

-Gregory Alan Aarbo

-Justin Scott Doescher

-Jason Ian Quinn

-Terry Lee Ohlenkamp

-Jacob Scott Law

-Robert Albert Corsini

-Justin Lee Glaser

-Timothy Lee Schuck

-Michael Gary Bloomberg

Kevin Michael Dolejsi

McGowan says the sixteen misdemeanor charges allege soliciting a person for sexual activity

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A Sioux Falls attorney has been appointed a judge in the Second Judicial Circuit.

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