
John Hult
Senior Reporter at South Dakota Searchlight
Storyteller. South Dakotan. Agitating in the public interest. Senior reporter for @SDSearchlight. Got news tips? Hit me: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
kfgo.com | John Hult
By: John HultSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A flurry of fighting broke out again Tuesday in the maximum security building on the campus of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, according to the Department of Corrections. The violence comes less than a week after a protest over prison security and the treatment of inmates, and less than a month after the last publicly acknowledged sparring between inmates on the prison grounds in Sioux Falls.
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1 week ago |
mitchellrepublic.com | John Hult
A flurry of fighting broke out again Tuesday in the maximum security building on the campus of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, according to the Department of Corrections. The violence comes less than a week after a protest over prison security and the treatment of inmates, and less than a month after the last publicly acknowledged sparring between inmates on the prison grounds in Sioux Falls.
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1 week ago |
southdakotasearchlight.com | John Hult
A flurry of fighting broke out again Tuesday in the maximum security building on the campus of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, according to the Department of Corrections. The violence comes less than a week after a protest over prison security and the treatment of inmates, and less than a month after the last publicly acknowledged sparring between inmates on the prison grounds in Sioux Falls.
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1 week ago |
lakotatimes.com | John Hult
FEMA falls under the leadership of Homeland Security Secretary and former South Dakota governor Kristi Noem. A letter from Mayor Jason Salamun to the U.S. Senate majority leader, South Dakota Republican John Thune, says the work aligns “with the priorities of the Trump-Vance administration.” The program “was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters,” the FEMA release says.
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1 week ago |
montrosepress.com | John Hult
A preliminary budget request from President Donald Trump takes aim at a satellite program with a 50-year history whose data is housed just northeast of Sioux Falls, at a facility employing hundreds of people. Trump’s discretionary budget request for NASA would cut $1.1 billion in funding for Earth observation programs, including what the request describes as cuts to the “gold-plated, two billion dollar Landsat Next” mission.
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