Gene Hetland

It dawned on me the other day that May 5 was the 40th anniversary of my college graduation.

As you may know, I'm a proud Jackrabbit through and through, so commencement was in Frost Arena on the SDSU campus--the very first commencement in what was then a new building

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By now you know at least some of the story of the three women who were rescued from a house in a residential area of Cleveland, Ohio, where they had all been held against their will for ten years or more

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From the Attorney General's office in Pierre comes word of a scam from crooks who claim to be from the Internal Revenue Service.

Now, I don't care what your opinion of the IRS is. This is someone using the name of the nation's tax collector and trying to get your personal information

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It turned out to be a false alarm in Sioux Falls on Friday morning, but it seems to me we can understand the concern. At least, I do.

As you know by now, police got a call just before 8am about a man in the area of 38th and Phillips who may have been carrying a rifle

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The deadline to register to vote in the upcoming Sioux Falls School District election is Monday, May 6th.

District officials say anyone wishing to vote in the election set for May 21st must be registered by 5pm that day

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Sioux Falls officials say Ceres, the company hired for branch and debris cleanup after the April ice and snow storm, had hauled 4,971 tons of material as of Wednesday morning.

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A woman from Aberdeen is charged after police in Sioux Falls say she was arrested for prostitution.

Information Officer Sam Clemens says detectives who had been tipped off by an on-line ad contacted the woman

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The building boom in Sioux Falls is not slowing down. City officials say they have issued more than $200 million in building permits so far this year.

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It never happened to me when I was a child, but I can sympathize with the four-year-old Minnesota boy who was left behind at a museum in Brookings when everyone else returned home after a field trip. And I'm guessing we all can

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It has occurred to me that defense attorneys for the surviving Tsarnaev brother have a nightmare on their hands.

How can anyone defend the man accused of the finish-line bombings at the Boston Marathon? I don't know, but someone has to

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