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10 Years After a 22-Year-Old Was Killed in a Murder-for-Hire Plot, the Last of 5 Defendants Is Sentenced

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10 Years After a 22-Year-Old Was Killed in a Murder-for-Hire Plot, the Last of 5 Defendants Is Sentenced

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RAPID CITY — The quest for justice in the heinous murder of a South Dakota woman a decade ago has come to a close. Richard Hirth, 44, was sentenced to life Monday, July 7, for his involvement in a 2015 murder-for-hire plot, which resulted in the death of 22-year-old Jessica Rehfeld. Hirth, who fatally stabbed Rehfeld multiple times before burying her in a shallow grave, pleaded guilty Monday to abetting first-degree manslaughter. As part of the …See the Story

Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Scoria Pit Named Among Top 10 Campgrounds

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Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, Scoria Pit Named Among Top 10 Campgrounds

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The Dyrt camping app has named campgrounds in Minnesota and North Dakota to its list of the 10 best places to camp for 2025. Split Rock Lighthouse State Park campground on Lake Superior was No. 3 on the list, while Scoria Pit campground in western North Dakota checked in at No. 8. The Dyrt's Best Places to Camp: Top 10 in the U.S. rankings are based on reviews and ratings from campers, The Dyrt said in a news release. While there are tens of tho…See the Story

Gas Monkey Garage's Richard Rawlings Kicks Off First Annual Trans Am Takeover at Gas Monkey Sturgis

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Gas Monkey Garage's Richard Rawlings Kicks Off First Annual Trans Am Takeover at Gas Monkey Sturgis

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STURGIS, S.D., July 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Richard Rawlings, founder of the iconic Gas Monkey Garage and owner of Gas Monkey Sturgis, partners with East Bound and Down, a Smokey and the Bandit Tribute, to debut the first annual Trans…See the Story

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Kristi Noem Failed to Disclose $80,000 Dark-Money Payment

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Kristi Noem Failed to Disclose $80,000 Dark-Money Payment

Daughter framed pioneer father for murder. Then he was hanged three times

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SIOUX FALLS, SD — For nearly half a century, Catherine Van Horn kept a secret that she divulged only on her death bed. In 1880, she killed her mother, Mary Egan, and blamed the deed on her stepfather, Thomas Egan, who was hanged three times until he was dead after a Dakota Territory jury found him guilty. She got into an argument with her mother around Sept. 14, 1880, beat her with a picket pin — a hardwood stake used to tether a horse — and str…Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls See the Story

Elvis feared a bullet. This bystander was there to to ease his mind

60% Right coverage: 15 sources

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Percy Ahrendt didn’t even particularly love Elvis. It was June 22, 1977. Elvis Presley hadn't had a No. 1 hit since “Suspicious Minds” in 1969. Ahrendt’s musical tastes were more up-to-date. “Doobie Brothers, America, stuff like that, like the Rolling Stones, a little Grand Funk Railroad, that kind of music,” Ahrendt said. “(Elvis) was a little over the hill at that point.” And yet, here Ahrendt was, with a backstage pass to …Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls See the Story

Trump’s Head on Mount Rushmore? that’s the Story of a Monument Erected by a Sculptor Affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan

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It was a beautiful mountain of the Black Hills, sacred to the Lakota Indians who inhabited those lands of northern North America... until the white men arrived. After coming down from the Mayflower, those inhabitants of the New World spread from the Atlantic and did not stop until they were stopped by the Pacific. In a few years, the Black Hills became part of South Dakota and the Six Grandfathers ceased to be a mountain to be a monument.It is t…South Dakota · South Dakota Read Article

Taste Test: Different Flavours of Romantic Comedy

Guest post written by The Odds of Getting Even author Amanda Sellet Amanda Sellet is a former journalist and the author of romcoms for teens and adults, including By the Book, which Booklist described in a starred review as, “impossible to read without laughing out loud.” She loves old movies, baked goods, and embarrassing her teen daughter. About The Odds of Getting Even: A fling with a mysterious stranger leads to a rollicking adventure in the…Books · South Dakota Read Article

Straight Outta Pierre: Zoom, state prison, governor hopefuls

JD Vance parachuted into the Hills for July 4, determined to film enough patriotic B-roll to last three election cycles. He stopped at Mount Rushmore for a quick Facebook video — proof he’d been there, if not for long — then set up shop in the DoubleTree lobby like he was casing the place for a heist: wave at the locals, snag the footage, vanish by Monday. Gov. Larry Rhoden was there too, wearing a ten-gallon hat so oversized it looked like he’d…JD Vance · Pierre Read Article

SD Intensity, Brookings, Black Hills, Yankton advance

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- The Class 'B' softball state tournament quarterfinals were played Saturday morning and afternoon at Sherman Park. Here are the quarterfinal scores:Black Hills Silencers (Piedmont) 8, South Dakota Select (Mitchell) 0Brookings Outlaws 9, TSC Blaze (Harrisburg) 4SD Intensity (Yankton) 9, Rapid City Assault 7Yankton Fury White 11, Venom (Mt. Vernon) 2 The semifinals pit SD Intensity against Brookings and Yankton against B…Sioux Falls · Sioux Falls Read Article

Extended cabs causing safety issues downtown

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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) --Navigating through downtown traffic can already be stressful enough, and when you add in extended cabs and vehicles sticking out into the lane of traffic, safety can become an issue. The goal is to make sure all vehicles downtown make sure they actually fit into their parking spots. "We find that oftentimes those extended cab vehicles go and extend out in the lane of travel which causes a safety hazard. So at that point…Taxis · Rapid City Read Article

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Speaks on Border Control in Tampa

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem spoke in Tampa on Saturday to address her ongoing efforts regarding border control, focusing on the work being done in Florida statewide and Tampa specifically. "Every single individual in this country will be treated fairly, and we will uphold our law because that is what the American people asked for," said Noem. According to her, over 286,000 immigrants have been arrested sinc…Kristi Noem · Florida See the Story

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