The Daily Slice

• Western Dakota Technical College announced the unexpected passing of its College President, Dr. Ann Bolman on Monday
• The annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup is Friday
• Hezbollah hurled dozens of projectiles into Israel, including a missile aimed at Tel Aviv that was the militant group’s deepest strike yet
• Forecasters say they expect Tropical Storm Helene in the Caribbean Sea to strengthen rapidly and become a hurricane as it moves north across the Gulf of Mexico toward the United States
• The U.S. is set to announce billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine in the coming days, aiming to secure the funding before it expires, after Congress excluded an extension in its stopgap measure to avoid a government shutdown
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• The highway patrol has identified a 73-year-old man who died Friday morning from injuries sustained in a single vehicle crash in Wall, SD
• Rapid City Police are Cracking Down on a Surge in Stolen Campaign Signs
• Israel and Hezbollah are trading strikes again as the death toll from a massive Israeli bombardment has climbed to nearly 560 people
• Boeing announced Monday that it has increased its offer to the International Association of Machinists union in an attempt to resolve the strike involving 33,000 union members
• Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, is set to begin a gradual reopening today, following this year’s deadliest school shooting
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• The highway patrol has identified An 80-year-old woman who died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash five miles north of Sturgis, SD
• Families in a South Dakota neighborhood are fearing for their safety as sinkholes have appeared around their homes in the area above an old underground mine
• Israeli strikes have killed more than 180 Lebanese and wounded more than 700 others in the deadliest and most intense barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war
• Authorities in Alabama are investigating whether the shooting of three more people in Birmingham on Sunday night is connected to the mass shooting a day earlier
• House Speaker Mike Johnson introduced a spending bill on Sunday aimed at preventing a government shutdown
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• The South Dakota Highway Patrol says an 80-year-old woman died Wednesday night from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash five miles north of Sturgis, SD
• Sergeant Jeremy Milstead with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office says the department has seen a concerning trend where people are re-sharing school threat social media posts
• For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies and the bloody aftermath are painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port
• Postmaster General Louis DeJoy vowed that the U.S. Postal Service will make "heroic efforts" to ensure all mail-in ballots are delivered on time this year, urging voters to mail their ballots at least one week before Election Day on November 5
• Stocks reached record highs on Thursday following the Federal Reserve’s much-anticipated interest rate cut
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• Rapid City Police say two juveniles were apprehended after a felony-level terroristic social media threat to Rapid City Central High School
• The Meade County Sheriff’s Office has arrested three people in connection with thefts and burglaries around the area
• Congo's South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak
• A new Hezbollah volley into northern Israel signals the group is keeping up its drumbeat of exchanges with the Israeli military
• In a notable development for the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday implemented its first jumbo-sized interest rate cut in four years
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• Sen. John Thune of South Dakota is competing intensely to become the next Republican leader in the Senate
• Looks like the official Ballot Question Pamphlet to help voters prepare ahead of Election Day is available
• Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
• Sean “Diddy” Combs has been indicted on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy allegations
• United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced Tuesday that the union is organizing strike authorization votes
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• Fire crews were busy Monday, jumping on new fire starts around the Black Hills area
• Rapid City Public Works says East Main Street North, between Maple Avenue and Steele Avenue, is closed
• As Congress faces a spending deadline at the end of the month, lawmakers are increasingly acknowledging the likelihood of a government shutdown
• The United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis has now entered its fourth day
• World leaders are gathering in New York City today for the United Nations General Assembly
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• Four people have been arrested, including two juveniles, after Summerset Police responded to a report of a multiple thefts and vehicle break-ins
• A threat that brought about the lockdown of Rapid City Schools reared its ugly head Friday and led to a secure status in the Meade 46-1 School District
• Former President Donald Trump is safe following what the FBI says “appears to be an attempted assassination” in Florida
• Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, includin
• SpaceX's all-civilian Polaris Dawn crew returned to Earth on Sunday after a five-day mission that featured the world's first commercial spacewalk
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• A judge sentenced six former Mitchell Legion baseball players involved in the Rapid City rape investigation
• For the third year in a row, almost all universities in South Dakota see a rise in enrollment
• Aircraft assembly workers have walked off the job at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere
• Mortgage rates dropped this week to their lowest level since February 2023
• Ukraine’s push to ease restrictions on the use of weapons from the United States and Britain
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• Rapid City Police yesterday responded to a report of a shooting incident near Central High School
• A Rapid City woman was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting aggravated assault and second-degree burglary
• A tech billionaire has performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth
• Francine has weakened to a tropical depression after slamming into Louisiana
• Nearly two years before a fatal listeria outbreak linked to recalled deli meat, inspectors at a Boar’s Head plant in Virginia reported unsafe
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