Shot, and that his girlfriend was being held hostage. Authorities are trying to establish who is in the house and how many people are involved. A sioux city man accused of impersonating a Police Officer and inappropriately touching young girls has been sentenced to seven years in prison. 31yearold joey alberts pleaded guilty to enticing away a minor, indecent contact with a child and three counts of impersonating a public official. According to court documents, alberts was arrested in march of 2014 after Authorities Say he approached girls, telling them he was a Police Officer. Alberts was accused of inappropriately touching two 13year old girls on separate occasions. He must register as a sex offender upon release from prison. sheila a bill that would repeal south dakotas Death Penalty has been shot down. matt ktivs tiffany lane spoke with one of the law makers behind the proposal. Tiffany . Matt and sheila, the bills main sponsor is republican senator arthur rusch of vermillion. On w
Their gender indentity. The Senate Education committee voted 4 to 2 on thursday to approve the measure and send it to the floor. Democrats have criticized the measure as discriminatory. South dakota lawmakers have killed a bill that would have repealed south dakotas Death Penalty. The bills main sponsor is republican senator arthur rusch of vermillion. On wednesday, the south Dakota Senate state Affairs Committee met to review the proposal. Rush is a former judge who has prosecuted a Death Penalty case. Rusch told the Committee Wednesday that hes seen firsthand how costly and hard it was on jurors and court personnel. The thing that i find so interesting is the parallel that were in a republican state thats predominantly prolife, said Chelsea Gilbertson of vermillion, south dakota. And so the second that you bring up the idea of the Death Penalty, people are no longer prolife. Theyre willing to take away the sanctity of life because somebody committed a crime. However, i think there ar
And continue the process of recovering. Employees remembered jon richter,r,he man who was killed the in the workplace shooting. They placed a memorial plaque in his honor at the entrance where the shooting took place. You could walk up and down the street, and i know people say this a lot when theres a tragedy, but i really mean this when i say this about jon; you could walk up and down t t street and you will not find a aerson in this commununy ththll have a bad thingngo say ababt that guy the ceo of sioux steel says the company is continuing to pay for counseling for employees. A bill up for debate at the state legislature, in pierre, is targeting people who are transgender. The bill proposes separate bathroom, and locker rooms, transgender students at south dakotatachools. Ivs tiffany lane hahareaction from lawmakers, anstudents. Anatomically different, i think is going to be a horrible affect on kids as far as bullying. Under the bill, schools must provide reasonable accommodations
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. We just gave away our lead guest. Right there, donald trump, live in our studio. A man of his word. Yesterday, he said, if i win, ill join you in your studio. Guess what . Here he is. The big winner, wasnt even close on the republican side or democratic side. Huge shifts on the left and the right. Lets get to where thing stand this morning. Fueled by recordsetting voting turnout, Bernie Sanders won over Hillary Clinton more than 20 points. Hillary clinton conceded moments after the poll closed. Things arenen closer on the repupuican side, at least at the top. Closest competitor, the surprise of the night, john kasich. Cruz finished third after a win in iowa. Followed closely be jeb bush and marco rubio with Chris Christie in a disappointing sixth. Well talk to trump and kasich in a moment. Firsrs lets start with e
We have such programs here in nebraska between our different campuses, between the Community Colleges and our state and the university. We actually have a unique program where we are piloting reverse transfer of credit back to Trinity College is so someone who did not complete their Associates Degree in actually used some of their University Courses for that purpose. The more dialogue there is between institutions the more efficient it is in the more cost is reduced as you point out. Host dr. Linder you said earlier 300 million for research at the university of nebraska lincoln. What is the University Researching and what are the different areas and what is the main focus . Guest obviously there are a variety of areas but being that we are in an agricultural state some of our focuses are on how you properly use Water Resources and how you grow food with less water. We face a population crisis in this world. We will have more and more mouths that need to be fed and they need to be fed t