Gene Hetland

Did you have fun driving on ice over the weekend?

Of course not. There is no such thing, as we all know.

When you can't get your car into the garage because it keeps sliding down the driveway, that's bad

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We are right in the season where some of NASA's worst space disasters occurred.

I can very much remember January 27, 1967, when three astronauts died in a fire in the Apollo space capsule that was, if I remember right, on a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

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The recent passing of former South Dakota State University Mens Basketball Coach Jim Marking set me to remembering the games in "The Barn."

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A plan to let South Dakota school districts allow one person to be armed during school hours will have more hurdles to clear if it's approved by a committee this week.

It's a reaction to incidents like the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December--the event that seems to be the real catalyst for discussions in South Dakota and so many other states

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SIOUX FALLS - A Sioux Falls man is in custody, and police say he is accused of raping his own daughter.

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The Open Government Task Force has presented the proposed legislation, and some of it involves exempting three-member boards from open meeting laws.

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We've had a couple of days to ruminate on the question of whether Beyonce Knowles sang the National Anthem for President Obama's inauguration ceremony on Monday, or whether she was doing a lip-sync version

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Now this may be just what you need, if you've been fighting influenza: a sorbet for people who have the flu.

I'd never heard of such a thing, but something that came by e-mail quotes a story in the New York Post, and it sounds like somebody's old family flu remedy, although it's definitely not from my family

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I saw a story online that said the third Monday in January can be the most depressing day of the year.

It has to do with failed New Year's resolutions, an expensive Christmas, fewer daylight hours and that sort of thing

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President Obama's inauguration begins a new four-year term, or for the "glass-is-half-empty" crowd, the President is now a lame-duck.

Already we've been hearing and reading about people on both sides of the political aisle being mentioned as possible candidates for 2016, but that's jumping the gun, in my view

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