USA Update

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) -- The South Dakota Department of Education announced a new curriculum that is aiming to "encourage the development of life skills necessary to thrive in today’s world," the DOE said in a news release. The program is called South Dakota Sturdy and is designed for a counseling program or general instruction. [...]

As peak one-pot season draws near once again, it’s the perfect time to celebrate not only those cozy, soul-warming dishes, but the vessels that contain them: the sturdy cast-iron Dutch oven, the gleaming stainless-steel soup pot and the earthy donabe, a traditional Japanese clay pot, to name a few. All can be used to bubble […]

Jabril Peppers, the New England Patriots’s star safety and a team captain, is in some serious off-the-field trouble.  According to Boston 25, the 29-year-old was involved in an altercation on Saturday morning in Braintree, Massachusetts. Police responding to a disturbance call reportedly found Peppers and another man, who was treated by EMS on the scene.  […]

American Water Works — a supplier of drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people — on Monday said hackers had breached its computer networks and systems.  The Camden, New Jersey-based utility became aware of the unauthorized activity on Thursday, and took protective steps, including shutting down certain systems, American Water Works […]

It’s typical for Sony to knock an extra $50 or so off its headphones once they become outdated. What’s atypical is the kind of deal that’s happening now on its WH1000XM4 over-ear headphones. Ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day, the last-gen (but still great) noise-canceling headphones are $129.99 at Target — a whopping 63% discount […]

Hurricane Milton was upgraded from a Category 3 to a Category 4 hurricane on Monday as it gathered strength over the southern Gulf of Mexico. The weather system is barreling toward Florida population centers including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay. State of emergency declared Late on Sunday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state […]

EXCLUSIVE: Director Jeff Celentano and producer Warren Ostergard, who recently collaborated on Dennis Quaid movie The Hill, have reunited to launch Enliven Content, a film and TV production company with a focus on “true, inspiring, and uplifting stories”. The company’s debut development project is Cody’s Wish, the true story of champion racehorse Cody’s Wish and his […]

The sole lesbian bar in Colorado, Blush & Blu, hosted its final party on Saturday night after announcing it would close its doors. In a farewell note posted on Sept. 28, owner Jody Bouffard thanked “every promoter, performer, DJ, drag queen, drag king, comedian, poet, and artist” who contributed at Blush & Blu, calling them the […]

A 19-year-old rodeo star, who won Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas in 2024, died in a single-vehicle car accident that left four of her teammates and a fifth person injured on Friday night in rural Kansas, according to officials. Emma Brungardt, of Blue Rapids, was a passenger in a 2007 Ford F250 pickup truck traveling southbound […]

Lore Segal, a virtuosic and witty author of autobiographical novels of her life as a young Jewish Viennese refugee in England and as an émigré in America, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Her daughter Beatrice Segal announced her death. On Dec. 10, 1938, 500 Jewish children boarded a train […]