October 6, 2015
Authorities Looking For Person Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft
MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Police in Mitchell are looking for the person who has pointed a green laser at an aircraft and officers. Lt. Don Everson tells KORN-AM ( ) the incidents involving the laser have happened over the last several weeks. Everson says someone has pointed the laser at officers in the vicinity of […]
Police: Man Stole Bulldozer, Used It To Damage Building
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Colorado man is in custody in South Dakota after law enforcement authorities accused him of stealing a bulldozer and using it to damage a building and destroy a pickup truck. Police in Rapid City say 21-year-old Justin Thornley of Empire, Colorado, was arrested Sunday on felony charges of destruction […]
Safe Ride service abused by some, former employee says
Though last week’s Dakota Days festivities resulted in a spike in citations from the Vermillion Police Department across the board, only three DWI arrests were made. The three Vermillion Public Transit buses filled to the brim with intoxicated students each weekend may have had something to do with that. Funded through the Department of Highway Safety, […]
Number of citations issued over 2015 Dakota Days ‘average’
The Vermillion Police Department was kept reasonably busy from Wednesday to Sunday last week, issuing 20 citations for open containers, 18 underage consumption tickets and had 14 incidents involving drugs or drug paraphernalia, VPD Chief Matt Betzen said. VPD also saw three disorderly conduct incidents, one assault on an officer, six incidents of public urination/defecation, three resistances to arrest, three public […]
Dakota Days 2015 Recap
If you missed any of the events last week, here is a quick recap of the D-Days activities. Producer: Krystal Schoenbauer Videographer: Sydney Mook, Tatum Dean, Monica Smithwick, Jacob Lutz, Mason Docktor
Student tailgate needs an expansion
When the student tailgate lot moved its present patch of grass on the north side, I was skeptical. The lot that students would be placed in was more constricted than before. It was no longer an open space but a bordered-up rectangle, and it did not seem to mesh with the rest of Coyote Nation. […]
Dakota Days closes with ‘A Joyful Noise’
Dakota Days week came to a close on Sunday afternoon with a resounding performance from the Gesteland-Smith duo. The “Make a Joyful Noise” event showcased the talents of Tracelyn Gesteland, an associate professor of voice in the USD music department and an active opera performer, as well as Wyatt Smith, an organist and a doctoral […]
Fiction author visits USD during D-Days
Brian Evenson, author and professor of literary arts at Brown University, visited the University of South Dakota on Oct. 2 to lead a craft talk as well as read from his own work. Evenson has published fiction novels and short stories, as well as a few non-fiction pieces. “From a very early age, I knew […]
Eichkorn controls SDSU Classic race
The SDSU Classic for the USD cross country team was a mixture of smiles and frowns on the bus ride home. While the women stomped on conference foes finishing first in the team standings, the men fell short finishing fourth out of just four teams. But solely staring at the team standings just doesn’t tell […]
Citizens need to take action on gun law reform
In the United States, we do a lot of things that make us different. We do not not use the metric system, we measure temperature in Fahrenheit and we display our flag everywhere. Although the U.S. has many innocent quirks, there are some things this country does that set it a part in a negative way, specifically […]