Jack Caudill
Anchor/Reporter/Assistant News Director
KEVN/KOTA
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Jack started at KEVN back in 1983 and has been here ever since. Starting as weekend sports anchor, he has served as sports director, news anchor and news director of KEVN and is now the anchor for KOTA Territory News at 5:30 and The SIX each day. Born and raised in Cincinnati, he is a graduate of Ohio University. Jack is passionate about the news business, telling great stories right here in the Black Hills and maintaining the integrity and fairness that have been the hallmark of KEVN and KOTA. If he's not at work, you'll likely find him on his mountain bike somewhere in the hills or hanging out with his grandkids.
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This time, it's a boy under the age of ten from Minnehaha County. The South Dakota Department of Health says COVID-19 was "the underlying factor".
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A Rapid City Reverend Martin Luther King Day tradition continues in Rapid City Monday with the annual MLK Day Celebration hosted by the Faith Temple Church.
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Barry Allman is going to be tried again in the murder of Lance Baumgarten in August of 2020.
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On Wednesday of this week, Monument Health had 34 COVID patients in their system.Of those, 28 were unvaccinated and just six were vaccinated.
The South Dakota Department of Health says the child was less than ten years old and was from Pennington County.
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Originally charged with first degree murder, 51-year old Rochelle Seminole pleaded guilty last month to vehicular homicide and aggravated assault in the death of 37-year old Kimberly Clifford of Rapid City.
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South Dakota has a total of 2,708 new cases Wednesday.
South Dakota goes over 20-thousand active cases for the first time during the pandemic, with that total rising by 3,256 Tuesday to 20,475.
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Former President Donald Trump has now gone after both of South Dakota's Senators. In December of 2020, Trump called John Thune a RINO (Republican in name only) and said Thune's political career would be over after Thune said it was time to people to move on after the 2020 election.bbMonday, Trump's target was Senator Mike Rounds.
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South Dakota's report covers four days, from 1pm Thursday to 1pm Monday, and shows a total of 3,047 new cases.
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43-year old Stacey Garnette pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor and enticement of a minor.
The latest seven-day rolling average of new confirmed cases here in South Dakota is the highest it's been in more than a year.
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The South Dakota Department of Health is reporting a total of 428 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, along with six more deaths from the virus.
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Students at South Dakota Mines have been cleared to return to campus after a bomb threat that forced their evacuation on Friday.
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33-year old Tracy Laughlin of Rapid City pleaded guilty Friday morning to being an accessory to a crime.
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South Dakota State Representative Phil Jensen of Rapid City responds to a report from Rolling Stone magazine about his involvement with the controversial group Oath Keepers.
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Sometimes, you find art where you least expect it.And that is certainly the case for a Nisland man who may soon find himself moving up in the art world after some quite unexpected circumstances.
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The DOC says 38-year old Timothy Mitchell failed to return to the Rapid City Community Work Center following a shift at his work release job on Wednesday.
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Fire crews are now estimating the size of the Auburn Fire burning north of Rapid City as 250-300 acres as of 6:15pm on Monday with 0% containment.
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Police were called to 840 N. Spruce St. at 5:20pm on Monday for a report of a gunshot victim.
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Marcin Garbacz faces up to 30 years in prison on the charge but prosecutors agree to ask for between 57 and 71 months behind bars.
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Monday morning, a new group of riders headed out for a three day ride to Sioux Falls, stopping to spend the night Monday in Murdo.
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The 16-year old victim in a Friday morning shooting in Rapid City has died.
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Tilsen is facing three felony counts, second degree robbery and simple assault on law enforcement, following a standoff near Mount Rushmore during President Trump’s visit for the Independence Day Fireworks in 2020.
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The U.S. Forest Service says fire crews are responding to a wildfire that started Friday night in the Black Elk Wilderness Area.
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Lust spent ten years as a Republican state representative including four years as the House Majority Leader.
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was in Des Moines, Iowa Friday, speaking at the conservative Family Leadership Summit.
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The man accused in a 2013 murder in Pennington County makes his first appearance in court Monday in Rapid City.
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The 43rd Festival in the Park kicked off Friday night in the Spearfish City Park.
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It's called Make Music Day and it's put together here by the Rapid City Arts Council and the Allied Arts Fund.
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The founder of Solutions Chiropractic says once she learned about OneHeart, she felt they had to try to help.
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A Rapid City man accused of killing a Manderson woman back in April pleads not guilty in Seventh Circuit Court Thursday morning.
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A Rapid City woman accused in a fatal stabbing at an apartment on Surfwood Drive on Tuesday makes her first appearance in court Thursday morning.
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Local vendors had a chance to sell their wares Saturday afternoon and visitors got the chance to check out some of the area's microbrews along with live music from Camp Comfort.
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This is a busy place. And here, medical microbiology goes a lot further than COVID-19.
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The nondescript exterior of the state health lab in Pierre belies the high-tech work going on inside the lab.
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The Patrol says 42-year old Kelsey M. Conner was driving a BMW X5 east on Interstate 90 at 8:52am Wednesday.
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31-year old Adam Ryan Swift pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor and attempted enticement of a minor using the internet.
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James Jumping Eagle is charged with first degree murder in state court, accused of killing Reta McGovern in her Rapid City home in February.
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It's going to take longer before we find out if prosecutors are going to seek the death penalty against a New York man facing three counts of murder.
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Tilsen says he thinks it’s “pretty crazy” that he would’ve gone to jail for practicing his right to protest.
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Nick Tilsen says community support played a big part in the change. More than 20,000 people signed a petition, while hundreds called prosecutors to get the charges against him dropped
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A 68-year old Rapid City man accused in a series of fires in the West Boulevard area pleads not guilty in Seventh Circuit Court Friday.
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The controversial polygamist compound near Pringle was bought at a sheriff’s auction Thursday by former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Sheriff Kevin Thom clarifies Jumping Eagle warrants and arrest.
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McGovern’s family said Monday that the quick arrest in the cases was reassuring and said they felt blessed that it happened so fast.
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Rapid City exceeded its stormwater discharge standards and isn't in compliance with reporting requirements, the city says.
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That comes from Judge Charles Kornmann in his order in the filing in a case from Codington County where a man claims his right to a speedy trial in state court is being violated due delays from COVID-19 restrictions in court.
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SD DOH says healthcare workers in Rapid City and Sioux Falls to be first to receive COVID-19 vaccine
The first of South Dakota’s initial allocation of the Pfizer vaccine will go to frontline healthcare workers in Rapid City and Sioux Falls, according to the South Dakota Department of Health.