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Rapid City Festival of Lights Parade
The annual Rapid City Festival of Lights Parade was held early this evening in downtown Rapid City. See some of 2009’s best entries! Read more »
Video: Dog Cries When Master Returns from Afghanistan
When this military man returns from duty in Afghanistan, his dog comes running to greet him, crying out in happiness. Read more »
Dist. 30 Sentator Gordon Howie’s Book Released
PublishAmerica is proud to present Sorting Buffalo by Gordon Howie of Rapid City, South Dakota. Read more »
The Danger of the Traitor
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. Read more »
Balloon Boy Found Safe
In case you haven’t already heard, the boy, Falcon Heene, who was thought to have taken his parents “flying saucer” hot air balloon thingy for an unexpected ride more than a mile high into the sky has been found alive and well. Read more »
What Would 44 Tons of Rotting Meat Smell Like?
What do you think 44 tons of rotting, liquefied meat would smell like in the downtown area of your town? In Bridgewater, South Dakota, residents got to find out…the hard way. Read more »
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Either you’re working to make life better, you’re reaping where you haven’t sown or you’re planting weeds in the neighbor’s garden. Believing in volunteerism and trying to help make my local community a place where neighbors know each other, a place where people gather to share common experiences and where good clean fun is part of life, recently I devoted many hours to what I will call my local MegaFest. Read more »
The Headline Not Expected
by Carrie K. Hutchens
The headlines seem full of road rage murders and men and women killing their mates and babies, as though we, as a society, have walked through a dark door into a realm where there is no value left on life. Then comes the headline of all headlines. The headline not [...] Read more »
Spearfish Canyon and Roughlock Falls
These are some more pics from my family’s adventures yesterday.
While we were in the Spearfish area we decided to take a drive through beautiful Spearfish Canyon. Though the best time to drive through Spearfish Canyon is still a few weeks away when the trees are really changing color, it’s never a bad time to [...] Read more »
Stunning Photos of California Wildfires
The British Telegraph has some incredible pictures of the wildfires burning out of control in California.
Some of them, like the one in the upper left side of this article, come from NASA. According to the photo caption at NASA:
Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of [...] Read more »
Coast Guard Video of US Airways Jet Hitting the Water
This is raw video footage from the U.S. Coast Guard of the US Airways jet actually hitting the water in the Hudson River, and of the first moments after the crash.
What an incredible landing!
Such a controlled landing in water is very rare. The pilot must have had tremendous focus, concentration and skill to hold the [...] Read more »
