1140 KSOO - Live Local Radio in Sioux Falls, SD » Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com The talk of Sioux Falls Sun, 19 May 2013 05:29:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Sioux Falls Police Change SRO Program http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-police-change-sro-program/ http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-police-change-sro-program/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:51:14 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=100229 The Sioux Falls Police Department will make several changes to the School Resource Officer, or SRO, program for the new school year this fall.

In the past SROs were assigned to specific schools

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]]> http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-police-change-sro-program/feed/ 0 Grinders Working on Branch Piles http://ksoo.com/grinders-working-on-branch-piles/ http://ksoo.com/grinders-working-on-branch-piles/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 18:28:47 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=99679 The trees and branches that came down in the April ice and snow storm in Sioux Falls are being ground up, but the public is being asked to stay away from the grinders.

A company called TFR Enterprises was hired by the city to grind the wood waste debris, and they began their work on Wednesday at the W-H Lyon Fairgrounds

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]]> http://ksoo.com/grinders-working-on-branch-piles/feed/ 0 Sioux Falls Police Arrest Man for Allegedly Exposing Himself in Front of Children http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-police-arrest-alleged-flasher/ http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-police-arrest-alleged-flasher/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 18:45:23 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=98700 Sioux Falls police say a man exposed himself to a group of preschool children who were in the playground of a North End elementary school.

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Information Officer Sam Clemens says the juvenile told police she was sleeping Friday morning when she heard someone come into her apartment on North Lewis Avenue

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Eight of the defendants are from Watertown, one is from Sioux Falls and

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]]> http://ksoo.com/events-surprise-us-again/feed/ 0 Workshop to Study Suburban Poverty http://ksoo.com/workshop-to-study-suburban-poverty/ http://ksoo.com/workshop-to-study-suburban-poverty/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 18:41:22 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=96995 I got a notice by e-mail (that's sent to news types all over the country) about a workshop to be held this fall at Hofstra University in New York that will target "suburban poverty,' and I have to admit the phrase was a new one to me

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]]> http://ksoo.com/workshop-to-study-suburban-poverty/feed/ 0 Sioux Falls Man is Victim of Scam http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-man-is-victim-of-scam/ http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-man-is-victim-of-scam/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 18:22:04 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=96424 It was a bogus online ad about a house for rent, and now a Sioux Falls man is out close to $900.

Information Officer Sam Clemens says the 40-year-old man told police he had seen an ad on Craigslist about a house for rent in the 1000 block of North Conklin Avenue

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]]> http://ksoo.com/sioux-falls-man-is-victim-of-scam/feed/ 0 Graduation Plus 40 Years http://ksoo.com/graduation-plus-40-years/ http://ksoo.com/graduation-plus-40-years/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 18:54:33 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=95905 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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]]> http://ksoo.com/graduation-plus-40-years/feed/ 0 None of these graduates is me, but I did wear a black cap and gown when I received my college degree. What's the Future for the Rescued Women? http://ksoo.com/whats-the-future-for-the-rescued-women/ http://ksoo.com/whats-the-future-for-the-rescued-women/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 18:13:25 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=95889 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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]]> http://ksoo.com/whats-the-future-for-the-rescued-women/feed/ 0 Scamming in the Name of the IRS http://ksoo.com/scamming-in-the-name-of-the-irs/ http://ksoo.com/scamming-in-the-name-of-the-irs/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 18:19:28 +0000 Gene Hetland http://ksoo.com/?p=95313 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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