Tuesday Mixed League 1/21/25 Angry Birds, 88-32; Tee Riffic Creations, 85-35; Six Balls, 82½- 37½; Old Pioneer, 73½-46½; Carlock Babes, 61-59; Buches Bowlers, 28-92; The Outsiders, 25-95; HTG: Six Balls, 716; HTS: Six Balls, 1997; HIG: Fritz Liewer, 225, Jennifer Soesbe, 201; HIS: Fritz Liewer, 597, Jennifer Soesbe, 503. Splits picked up: Michelle Weideman, 4-5; Augie Bortz, 3-10, 5-6; Steven Petersen, 3-10.

Gregory 61 KWL 27 The Gregory Gorillas continued their winning ways with a convincing 61-27 victory over the KWL WiLdKats in high school basketball action last Thursday in White Lake. The Gorillas started the game strong, outscoring KWL 13-2 in the first quarter.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) recently issued advance notice of proposed rulemaking titled Price Discovery and Competition in Markets for Fed Cattle is intended to resolve a very serious and chronic problem in the cattle industry’s fed cattle market. That problem is that a super majority of fed cattle have been shifted out of the industry’s price discovery market – the cash market – and into alternative marketing arrangements or AMAs.

The most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data show that total beef imports during the 2024 period January through November were up 24 percent compared to the same period in 2023. The largest surges in imports this last year came from three countries: Australian beef imports were up 67 percent, Brazilian beef imports were up 60 percent, and Uruguayan beef imports were up 76 percent.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley released this statement following former President Biden’s decision to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier from life in prison to serving the remainder of his sentence in home confinement: “The Attorney General’s Office strongly opposes this action and has in recent months argued against any change in the defendant’s sentence. He was convicted in the 1975 cold-blooded murders of FBI Special Agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler on the Pine Ridge Reservation. That conviction has been reviewed and upheld by no fewer than 22 federal judges since then. Former Gov. Janklow, who was Attorney General at the time of the murders, also opposed any reduction or change in sentence. I was the prosecutor in the Annie Mae Aquash murder trial that elicited the testimony from the witness recounting how Peltier described in his own words executing the FBI Special Agent by shooting him through his hand raised to protect himself into the face. The Attorney General’s Office will continue to stand with, and protect, law enforcement.”