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Four men arrested on assault charges for fight at Siesta Motel
Four men were arrested on assault charges for allegedly getting into a fight on Tuesday at the Siesta Motel in Mitchell. Gibson Yazzie, 35, of...
 News/local October 20, 2017 - 11:53am
Paul M. Stahl
Paul M. Stahl Paul M. Stahl, 95, of Bridgewater died October 19, 2017 at Oakview Terrace in Freeman, South Dakota. Memorial Services will be...
 October 20, 2017 - 9:38pm
At approximately 2:45 p.m. on Friday, a vehicle crashed into a pole on the 200 block of McCabe Street in Mitchell. One person sustained minor injuries. (Libby Leyden/ Republic)
Mitchell man injured after vehicle hits street pole
A Mitchell man sustained minor injuries on Friday after driving his vehicle into an electrical pole. At approximately 2:45 p.m., near the 200...
 News/local October 20, 2017 - 5:13pm
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Alexa Nicole McKenzie July 20, 2001 - Oct. 19, 2017 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Alexa Nicole McKenzie, 16, Colome, S.D., died Thursday, Oct. 19, in Avera McKennan Healthcare Center. A wake will be 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at Colome High School Gym. The funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,...
 October 20, 2017 - 9:28pm
Marie Brinker
Marie Brinker Dec. 20, 1980 - Oct. 17, 2017 MITCHELL, S.D. - Marie Brinker, 37, Mitchell, died Tuesday, Oct. 17, in her home. Arrangements are pending with Bittner Funeral Chapel in Mitchell.
 October 20, 2017 - 9:28pm
Area prep volleyball roundup: Beavers blank Bearcats
ALEXANDRIA—Class B No. 3 Hanson swept Freeman Academy/Marion 25-11, 25-17 and 25-20 in prep volleyball action on Friday in Alexandria....
 sports October 20, 2017 - 10:43pm
Mitchell man charged with wife’s suffocation death
A woman who was killed on Tuesday allegedly died at the hands of her husband, according to court documents filed Thursday. At approximately...
 News/local October 19, 2017 - 4:15pm
Woonsocket/Wessington Springs/Sanborn Central's Trent Kingsbury, center, runs with the ball as Alex Wormstadt, left, looks to block during a prep football game earlier this season in Wagner. Also pictured is Trey Weber, right. (Matt Gade / Republic)
Strength in numbers: Area schools continue to benefit from football co-ops
Woonsocket/Wessington Springs/Sanborn Central head coach Jason Kolousek knows there's strength in numbers. Kolousek has been the head coach of...
 sports October 21, 2017 - 7:00am
A Mitchell police vehicle sits outside of a home on the 900 block of East Third Avenue Wednesday morning. (Sara Bertsch / Republic)
Mitchell man arrested for suffocating woman to death
A Mitchell man was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly killing a woman by asphyxiation. Thirty-nine-year-old James Brinker is accused of stuffing...
 News/local October 18, 2017 - 4:37pm
Mitchell's Drew Kitchens (22) makes a cut move while carrying the ball as Spearfish's Gavin Feeser (25), Justin Carter (60) and Matt Ackerman (30) give chase during a game on Thursday night at Joe Quintal Field. (Matt Gade / Republic)
SDHSAA prep football quarterfinals set
The South Dakota High School Activities Association football state quarterfinal pairings were announced late Thursday. The 16-team brackets in...
 sports/prep October 19, 2017 - 11:13pm
Greenway spent year advocating for pork industry
Brad Greenway is ready for life to slow down a bit. For the past year, the former National Pork Board’s America’s Pig Farmer of the Year...
 News/local October 20, 2017 - 9:11am
Catherine Emmanuelle. Courtesy Photo / University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Council member says she has right to breastfeed at meetings, retains civil rights lawyer to challenge chair
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Catherine Emmanuelle believes she has the right to breastfeed her infant son at council meetings, and the Eau Claire city...
 News October 20, 2017 - 5:18pm
KFC / Twitter
A Sioux Falls man discovered something no one else had, and his tweet about it is going mega-viral
A stroke of pure marketing genius, humility and savvyness has been lying undiscovered and unknown on KFC's official Twitter page for an unknown...
 News October 20, 2017 - 4:04pm
Former Sisseton-Wahpeton tribal executives sent to prison for embezzling
SISSETON, N.D. --Two former tribal executives on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate reservation in northeast South Dakota have been sent to prison for...
 News October 18, 2017 - 7:06pm
The Davison County Public Safety Center serves as the home for county lockup. (Matt Gade/Republic)
Circuit Court from Oct. 17
The following cases were among those heard Tuesday during a circuit court session at the Davison County Public Safety Center in Mitchell. Guilty...
 News/local October 18, 2017 - 12:54pm

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A helmet along with a wreath rest atop the casket for Donald “Donny” Manger on Thursday in the Lyman School District’s gym in Presho. (Matt Gade / Republic)

PRESHO — With an American flag draped over the casket, six people carried the late Presho fire chief to the front of a packed gym to say “goodbye.”

Hundreds ...

Winner's Sidda Schuyler competes in the Region 4B cross country meet at the Chamberlain Country Club last week in Oacoma. (Matt Gade / Republic)

WINNER — As an eighth-grader, Sidda Schuyler is steadily becoming one of the state's top girls cross country runners.

In the sport of long distance running, success goes hand-in-hand with ...

Brad Greenway is ready for life to slow down a bit.

For the past year, the former National Pork Board’s America’s Pig Farmer of the Year has been traveling ...

Gopal Vyas thanks the crowd while Lt. Gov. Matt Michels laughs during the Governor's Awards Luncheon at the Highland Conference Center. Vyas was named South Dakota Association of Fundraising Professionals’ outstanding philanthropist of 2017.

Gopal Vyas wants to make a difference.

But in doing so, he turned a few heads and found himself being named the South Dakota Association of Fundraising Professionals' outstanding philanthropist ...

South Dakota Transportation Commissioner and former state Sen. Mike Vehle, of Mitchell, serves as master of ceremonies for the ribbon-cutting of the Foster Street bridge on Tuesday. The bridge rehabilitation was the first to be completed under the Bridge Improvement Grant system created through 2015's Senate Bill 1, a bill Vehle sponsored. (Evan Hendershot / Republic)

Tuesday was a big day for Transportation Commissioner and former state Sen. Mike Vehle.

More than two years after his highway and bridge funding bill — known as Senate Bill ...

Minnesota Vikings offensive tackle Riley Reiff (71) blocks Green Bay Packers linebacker Blake Martinez (50) as Vikings quarterback Case Keenum, left, drops back to pass during a game on Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. (Matt Gade / Republic)

MINNEAPOLIS -- Letting his game do the talking, Riley Reiff is thriving as a Minnesota Viking.

Six games into the 2017 regular season and roughly eight months after signing ...

Attendees of a benefit for Tara Bainbridge eat a supper for a free will offering on Saturday at Boogs & Co. in Parkston. Bainbridge has stage four non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (Caitlynn Peetz/Republic)

PARKSTON — As Tara Bainbridge and her husband, Neal, walked into Boogs & Co. on Saturday afternoon, they stopped to take it all in.

Wearing a surgical mask, Tara made ...

Craig Ryan Steinke is the owner and interior designer for Craig Ryans. (Matt Gade / Republic)

Craig Steinke's catchphrase for his store is "unique and different."

When describing his home decor business — called Craig Ryans — that's his go-to characterization. But it's more than just ...

Jason Bates, an owner of the Brew Parlor, brought a unique combination of brews, liquor, games and haircuts to Mitchell's Main Street. (Evan Hendershot / Republic)

Backed by a unique edge unlike anything around, Jason Bates is hoping his new business is a cut above the rest.

The Brew Parlor opened on Main Street in August, ...

Ashley and Kyle Baker laugh with one another before posing for a photo with their children, Hallie and Hudson, in their pumpkin patch west of Mount Vernon. Called Baker Pumpkin Patch, their business has been open to the public for five years and in operation for 10 years. (Sara Bertsch / Republic)

MOUNT VERNON — Sitting on his father's lap, 4-year-old Hudson Baker smiled as their tractor came to a stop at the end of the pumpkin patch.

Hopping off, Hudson ran ...

Photographs from Phyllis Salmen's past lay on the table as Dakota Wesleyan University senior Dylan Dethlefsen interviews Salmen on Tuesday morning in her apartment at Wesley Acres. (Matt Gade / Republic)

A new learning style at Dakota Wesleyan University will allow the stories of Mitchell's senior residents to be shared worldwide.

Recently, Dakota Wesleyan has incorporated community-based learning into curriculum. And ...

Joshua Cimpl watches as a plane prepares to land Sunday morning at Mitchell Municipal Airport. (Caitlynn Peetz/Republic)

A program geared toward teaching youth how to pilot their own airplanes is taking flight in Mitchell.

Dakota Flight Center recently completed a $50,000 renovation project at the George McGovern ...

Brooke Veurink, Amy Muth, Shawna Huls and Jenna Stroup — all from Mitchell — attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday night in Las Vegas where gunfire erupted. (Submitted photo)

Screams of joy soon became screams of terror.

Smiling and singing along with Jason Aldean as he performed "When She Says Baby" at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, Brooke Veurink, ...

Jerry Rubendall, center, was surprised by Poet Biorefining employees at the plant near Mitchell in honor of his 11 years on the company's board of directors. Rubendall is stepping down from the board, and played an integral role in bringing the plant to the Mitchell area. (Evan Hendershot / Republic)

If not for Jerry Rubendall, Poet's presence in Mitchell may have remained a pipedream.

What started as a group of investors each throwing $200 into a hat to hire a ...

Bennett Namanny, center in green, gets a group hug from his fellow Kimball students on Monday. Bennett will undergo a heart valve replacement surgery on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska. (Matt Gade / Republic)

KIMBALL — Kimball students have heart.

On Monday, a sea of red overtook Kimball High School with more than 150 students wearing the bright crimson to show support for one ...

Jordan Buchholz, a Dakota Wesleyan University alumnus, teaches in a school for AsOne Ministries, which helps communities in Rwanda and Uganda. (Photo courtesy of Andrew DeVaney)

One trip to Rwanda and then Uganda, and Andrew DeVaney was changed.

The Dakota Wesleyan University graduate traveled to the countries twice while in college, and became close friends with ...

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