The Daily Slice

• Just over two weeks until Election Day and Pennington County has already seen a strong early voting turnout
• Rapid City Area Schools has been awarded a $3.4 million grant
• Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip
• New research shows Russia has worked to amplify false and misleading claims about the U.S.
• Boeing factory workers have voted against the company’s latest contract offer and will remain on the picket lines six weeks into a strike
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• The Rapid City council met Monday night and unanimously approved a resolution opposing the adoption of Initiated Measure 28
• South Dakota’s Department of Education released their annual report card
• Federal officials say E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers
• Israeli jets have struck multiple buildings in Lebanon’s southern coastal city of Tyre
• The U.S. defense secretary says there's evidence that North Korea has sent troops to Russia
• Buncombe County, North Carolina, which includes Asheville, has revised its reported death toll from Hurricane Helene
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• A missing Meade County 13-year-old has been located and the suspect believed to have abducted her
• A Rapid City man pleaded guilty Monday morning to murder
• U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel on his 11th visit to the region
• A small town in far eastern Cuba is recovering from flooding that killed at least six people
• China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other global leaders have arrived in the Russian city
• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has manned the fry station at a McDonald's
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• The South Dakota Department of Education (DOE) released its 2023-24 Report Card today
• Rapid City Police say three people were taken into custody after a chase Friday morning
• At least two people have died, and hundreds have been rescued in Roswell, New Mexico
• U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit
• Lebanese were surveying the damage after overnight Israeli strikes hit nearly a dozen branches of a Hezbollah-run financial institution
• Cubans have taken to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts
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• A Box Elder man has been arrested and charged with the theft of a sport motorcycle
• Rapid City Police arrested a 19-year-old man following a physical altercation and standoff Wednesday
• A top Hamas political official confirms the death of the group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar
• South Korea’s spy agency says North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine
• King Charles III and Queen Camilla have arrived in Sydney
• The North Carolina State Board of Elections reported that over 200,000 early voting ballots had been cast
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• A Rapid City man charged with burglarizing at least three businesses
• The Pennington County director of County Buildings and Grounds has presented some options for a jail expansion
• Three people have died and four have been seriously injured after a Mississippi bridge collapsed
• North Korea has revised its constitution to define South Korea as “a hostile state”
• The Israeli military says it is looking into whether Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar was killed
• Russia’s lower house of parliament has given a quick initial approval to a bill outlawing the promotion of material that discourages people from having children
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• Historically low teacher salaries have gone up in South Dakota in recent years
• The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office says climbers on Old Baldy Mountain are safe after a climbing gear malfunction left them immobile
• Officials say Israeli airstrikes have pounded areas across Lebanon
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told lawmakers that Ukraine’s Western partners are increasing pressure
• A nationwide recall of meat and poultry products potentially contaminated with listeria bacteria has expanded to nearly 12 million pounds
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• The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office says a juvenile was arrested over the weekend in connection with a shooting
• It's time for Tik Tok to cooperate...or else
• The ad war is getting hotter in the campaign over legalizing recreational marijuana in South Dakota
• A U.S. court has given two top associates of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman until early November to turn over any evidence
• Relations between India and Canada are at a low point as the countries expelled each other’s top diplomats
• Medicare Advantage enrollees are advised to review their plans as open enrollment begins today
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• Louisiana man has been arrested for deceptive business practices involving an asphalt paving job
• A Box Elder family has achieved the dream of home ownership thanks to Habitat for Humanity
• Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are taking their fight for Pennsylvania
• Taiwan's defense ministry says China used 125 military aircraft in exercises aimed at Taiwan
• A NASA mission to explore a potentially habitable ocean world is set to launch today
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• Former three-term U.S. Senator and five-term U.S. Representative Tim Johnson has died
• South Dakota lawmakers are calling for more resources to help prevent future scandals within state government departments
• Hurricane Milton is barreling into the Atlantic Ocean after plowing across Florida
• Inflation in the United States dropped last month to its lowest point since it first began surging more than three years ago
• The US government is considering a breakup of Google after a federal judge ruled in August that the company had violated antitrust law
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