The sudden death of legendary band ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, has left many shocked and saddened. Both the remaining band members and the Sturgis Buffalo Chip venue have released statements.

One of the Republican Party’s most prominent rising stars is mocking new government recommendations calling for more widespread use of masks to blunt a coronavirus surge.

The CDC has recommended that people once again put the masks on, regardless of vaccination status. However, the state of South Dakota will not be following those guidelines.

"They kind of explore ambitions, limitations, that so many have felt in life and also the explore the excitement we had as children playing with boxes,"

One of the most decorated Olympic gymnasts sent shock waves around the world, Simone Biles withdrew from the gymnastics final, saying it was for mental health reasons. Some call the decision controversial, others call it brave, either way mental health professionals think her decision paints a good picture of how serious mental health can be.

"I think it’s time for government to sit back, wait, watch and not expect great compliance with mandates related to the spread of a virus.” He says that some of the public thinks that medical professionals are being given a script to read by government agencies in order to get control of the constituency. He says that these thoughts take people’s eyes off what’s important -- the spread of the virus.

“Humans have been climbing forever. Maybe not in the way that we’ve been climbing in the last 50 years. If there’s a mountain out there,” says Bellisle, “someone’s trying to climb it.”

It started as a fight over alcohol

Places with substantial or high community spread are recommended to go back to masking.

At around 2:15pm Wednesday, July 28, law enforcement were alerted to a drowning at Pactola Reservoir. The report said that a man had been swimming near his boat when he disappeared under the water and did not re-surface. His location was in a portion of the reservoir that is 100-feet-deep.