Gene Hetland

SIOUX FALLS - Police have wrapped up their investigation into a chain-reaction crash that killed one person and injured six others at the intersection of 41st Street and Minnesota Avenue.

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I saw a story that's bound to gladden the heart of real estate agents everywhere. Apartment owners, I'm not so sure.

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The two drownings at Falls Park are a tragedy, and there's no doubt about it.

Two people trying to help rescue a six-year-old boy from the water, one of them the boy's 16-year-old sister, are lost

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It happened again, and it's not uncommon.

At police briefing we heard about a purse being stolen from a vehicle. It was nothing out of the ordinary, as it happens far too often.

People wind up reporting lost or stolen property from an unlocked vehicle, garage or home, and it's the kind of theft that can be prevented

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It was a little over 59 years ago that Edward R. Murrow publicly criticized Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, who had alleged the federal government was full of Communists.

Now, I was very young then, but I do remember the McCarthy hearings, which were televised, in which McCarthy accused anybody and everybody, it seemed, of being subversive

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Tournament season always reminds me of basketball tournaments I have seen, and they go back a few years.

The first South Dakota Class "B" Basketball Tournament I saw was in 1966. Of course, there was no distinction between boys' tournaments and girls' tournaments in those days because these were the Dark Ages, when high school girls and, for that matter, college women were more or less out of luck

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Agents of the Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force say they made two arrests and seized drugs and drug paraphernalia when they carried out a search warrant Wednesday afternoon at 1009 South Foster Avenue

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SIOUX FALLS - The City of Sioux Falls has announced the 18 private luxury suites in the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center recently offered for sale have officially sold out.

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I can't remember the last time I carried a pocketknife.

Oh, there was a time when I did, but I was much younger then, and I don't have much use for one now.

So when the TSA announced it would allow air passengers to carry small knives on board, it didn't strike me as something that would affect me much

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