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SPM NEWS 2.22.21 - 5:04PM
South Dakota lawmakers are considering impeaching the state s attorney general as he faces misdemeanor charges for striking and killing a man with his car.
Jason Ravnsborg, the state s top law enforcement officer, has said he will not step down before he gets a hearing in front of a judge.
Prosecutors have charged the Republican attorney general with three misdemeanors but no felonies in the September death of 55-year-old Joseph Boever. Republican Rep. Tim Goodwin says Ravnsborg should resign and that lawmakers are considering impeachment if he doesn t.
Gov. Kristi Noem would get to appoint a replacement if Ravnsborg, a native of Cherokee, is convicted of impeachment or resigns.
SPM NEWS 2.18.21 - NOON NEWS
Siouxland District Health reported two more deaths in Woodbury County for a death toll of 210 due to complications of COVID-19. The positivity rate is up slightly to 6%. Hospitalizations are up almost 15% with 14 patients at Sioux City’s two medical facilities. Statewide there are 241 patients, with 60 in intensive care. That’s a small decrease from the day before.
There have been 18 new cases added in Woodbury County. Statewide, there are more than 550 new cases and 15 deaths in a 24-hour period that ended this morning at 10 a.m.
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is defending the state’s decision to prioritize the elderly for coronavirus vaccination shots over people with underlying health conditions, noting that most Nebraska residents who have died so far were at least 65 years old.
SPM NEWS 2.18.21 - NOON NEWS
Siouxland District Health reported two more deaths in Woodbury County for a death toll of 210 due to complications of COVID-19. The positivity rate is up slightly to 6%. Hospitalizations are up almost 15% with 14 patients at Sioux City’s two medical facilities. Statewide there are 241 patients, with 60 in intensive care. That’s a small decrease from the day before.
There have been 18 new cases added in Woodbury County. Statewide, there are more than 550 new cases and 15 deaths in a 24-hour period that ended this morning at 10 a.m.
Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate have approved 21-million dollars for a new personnel and accounting computer program for the state.
SPM NEWS 2.15.21 - 4:31PM
Siouxland is under a Wind Chill Warning until Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. The National Weather Service says expect dangerously cold wind chills of up to 40-below overnight.
Last night’s weather set records across the region. Sioux City did as well, with a low temperature of -28.
Nebraska also saw a number of low-temperature records broken and expected more to fall Tuesday as a polar vortex pushed Arctic air into the Plains. Temperatures are expected to be below normal for almost a week.
Frigid weather that has sent temperatures plunging across Middle America also has power and gas utilities urging customers to dial down the thermostat through Wednesday. Utility companies serving Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri issued the plea yesterday and today for customers to conserve power as temperatures dropped to nearly 30 below in parts of western and northern Nebraska early Monday, sending the wind chill to as low as nearly 50 below in some places.