Gene Hetland

It's time for the activity that reduces workplace productivity every March.

It's madness, as we all know.

The office and workplace predictions for the NCAA Basketball Tournament get a lot of people going, in fact enough people to make it almost an industry of its own

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The possibility of a ban on texting while driving is being discussed again in Mitchell, after Sioux Falls led the way last year and put at least an official ban on the practice..

The Mitchell City Council discussed such a ban last fall, but then put it aside to see what happened with a proposed statewide ban in the Legislature

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With both South Dakota State University basketball teams making the NCAA tournament, it's an exciting time. It's also more proof that hoops in South Dakota are a lot better than some might think.

For the Jacks women, this is the fifth year in a row in the national tournament, and the second for the men

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The two drownings at Falls Park are a tragedy, and there's no doubt about it.

Two people trying to help rescue a six-year-old boy from the water, one of them the boy's 16-year-old sister, are lost

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A Wagner woman will spend time in prison for drug offenses and for failing to report the death of a child.
The case of 29-year-old Laurie Cournoyer was the first conviction under the South Dakota version of Caylee's Law since it took effect last July 1

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Millions upon millions of Catholics worldwide are keeping an eye on the Papal Conclave, as the College of Cardinals votes on the Church's next leader.

And I'd be willing to bet even non-Catholics are paying attention

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It happened again, and it's not uncommon.

At police briefing we heard about a purse being stolen from a vehicle. It was nothing out of the ordinary, as it happens far too often.

People wind up reporting lost or stolen property from an unlocked vehicle, garage or home, and it's the kind of theft that can be prevented

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SIOUX FALLS - Minnehaha County authorities are looking for two men who are believed to have stolen a white Cadillac in Garretson after dumping a vehicle stolen from Sioux Falls early Monday morning.

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It was a little over 59 years ago that Edward R. Murrow publicly criticized Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, who had alleged the federal government was full of Communists.

Now, I was very young then, but I do remember the McCarthy hearings, which were televised, in which McCarthy accused anybody and everybody, it seemed, of being subversive

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Tournament season always reminds me of basketball tournaments I have seen, and they go back a few years.

The first South Dakota Class "B" Basketball Tournament I saw was in 1966. Of course, there was no distinction between boys' tournaments and girls' tournaments in those days because these were the Dark Ages, when high school girls and, for that matter, college women were more or less out of luck

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