Former USD football player charged with bank robbery
A former USD student-athlete is under indictment for robbing a bank. David Giese, a 26-year-old former USD football player, was charged in federal court in Sioux Falls last week with bank robbery, according to court documents. The documents show that Giese was charged by a grand jury in a July 2016 robbery of a Wells Fargo bank in Yankton. Giese, […]
USD students react to Trump administration
Donald Trump has been president for 13 days. In that time, he’s signed more than a dozen executive orders and memorandums. Some of those orders include a travel ban on several Middle Eastern countries, a green light on production of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. […]
USD graduate named to administration post
The still-developing Trump administration now has the brains of a USD graduate among its personnel. Colonel Andrea Thompson, a 1988 graduate of USD, has been named national security advisor to vice-president Mike Pence. Thompson has been in the army for 28 years, becoming the highest-ranking intelligence officer in her division, the 101st Airborne Division of […]
Lawrence and Schiller to host “Meet Greet Repeat” internship event
On February 3 in Sioux Falls, the Lawrence & Schiller advertising agency will be hosting an internship fair called “Meet Greet Repeat.” The event is intended to give job candidates the opportunity to have a one-on-one experience with potential employers at the agency. The website for the event describes Meet Greet Repeat as a “fast, […]
Firefighters respond to fraternity house fire
A fire at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house Monday evening was caused by hot materials unknowingly being dumped into a bathroom trash can on the second floor of the house, according to an investigation by the Vermillion Fire Department. Firefighters and other emergency personnel responded to the fraternity house located at 429 North Plum […]
UPDATED: Apartment complex residents return home after gas, fire scare
About 20 people were allowed to return to their apartments early Tuesday morning after a gas leak and fire scare at the Austree Apartment complex led to the evacuation of the two buildings Ileen Weisser, a resident of the apartment complex located at 800 Jefferson who made the initial 911 call, said she was doing […]
Doubleheader to open Sanford Coyote Sports Center
The Coyote men and women’s basketball teams will break in the new court at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center Nov. 13 in a doubleheader against Stephen F. Austin and Bowling Green. In total, there are 13 non-conference games on the women’s schedule before the Summit League opener, in which the Coyotes will take on Denver on Dec. […]
New students move into dorms during USD Move-in Day 2016
8: 33 a.m. As a car pulled into the parking lot of North Complex Friday morning a group of college students in red shirts surrounded the vehicle. Today was USD Move-in Day. One of the first students to move in was first-year Ashley Nolz from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, who pulled into the lot around […]
Death of USD student announced
A USD student has died. According to an email sent to students Tuesday morning from the Office of the Dean of Students, Clint Hubert, an international studies major with a philosophy and German minor, passed away on May 28 at his home in Vermillion. Hubert was a graduate of Vermillion High School. A visitation service […]
UPDATED: Colette Abbott, wife of USD President James Abbott, dies suddenly at home after cancer diagnosis
First Lady Colette Abbott, the wife of USD President James Abbott, died suddenly Wednesday afternoon at their residence at the age of 59, according to a statement from University Relations. She was recently diagnosed with cancer and was awaiting surgery, according to a statement. President Abbott could be seen talking to emergency personnel at his home, […]