Author: Stephen Groves
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GOP donor funds South Dakota National Guard troops in Texas
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. • South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday she will use a donation from a Republican donor to fund a deployment of up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. border with Mexico. Noem joined a growing list of Republican governors promising to send law enforcement officers to Texas…
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Taming the virus: US deaths hit lowest level in 10 months
WASHINGTON • COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have tumbled to an average of around 600 per day — the lowest level in 10 months — with the number of lives lost dropping to single digits in well over half the states and hitting zero on some days. Confirmed infections have fallen to about 38,000 per…
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South Dakota’s AG charged with 3 misdemeanors in fatal crash
PIERRE, S.D. • South Dakota’s Republican attorney general has been charged with misdemeanor careless driving after he struck and killed a man with his car, authorities said Thursday. Jason Ravnsborg is also facing misdemeanor charges of operating a motor vehicle while using a mobile electronic device and veering out of his lane, Emily Sovell, deputy…
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South Dakota AG was frequent traveler before fatal crash
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. • For South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, spending Saturday driving hundreds of miles on the state’s roads was not unusual. But by this past Sunday, it was clear that his latest trip was anything but routine: An investigation was underway that would reveal he struck and killed a man walking along…
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Ill. teen charged in Kenosha shooting that killed 2, hurt 1
KENOSHA, Wis. • Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 17-year-old from Illinois in the fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a third in Kenosha, Wis., during a night of unrest after the weekend police shooting of Jacob Blake. Kyle Rittenhouse faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of first-degree reckless homicide, one…
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At Rushmore, Trump says protesters seek to ‘defame’ heroes
MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. • Speaking to a largely maskless crowd at Mount Rushmore, President Donald Trump said Friday that protesters have waged “a merciless campaign to wipe out our history” amid demonstrations against racial injustice and police brutality. The sharp rebuke in a holiday address to mark the nation’s independence follows weeks of…
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Grandfather: Remains are missing boy
TAOS, N.M. • A severely disabled Georgia boy who authorities say was kidnapped by his father and marked for an exorcism was found buried at the ramshackle compound in the New Mexico desert that has been the focus of investigators for the past week, the toddler’s grandfather said Thursday. New Mexico authorities, however, said they…