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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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.
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Tuesday’s fire at Camp Mniluzahan destroyed or damaged at least 10 tents and burned less than a half-acre of grass.
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Marcin Garbacz was sentenced to seven years and nine months in federal prison.
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The Pennington County Sheriff''s Office is one of 18 sheriff's offices across the state in the Virtual Crisis Care pilot program.
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People simply get tired of dealing with the pandemic and the restrictions that come along with it.
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Troy Fairbanks pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wildlife trafficking back in December.
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They're looking for artists from around the region, professionals, amateurs and students to create art along with South Dakota Artist Laureate Dale Lamphere.
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The number of patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 is still on the rise here in South Dakota.
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It's become a 9/11 tradition here in Rapid City, the Drops of Life Blood Drive.
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You've probably heard plenty about a report that came out earlier this week that projects that more than 260,000 cases of COVID-19 may have stemmed from the Sturgis Rally at a health care cost of more than $12 billion.
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A state investigation is underway into an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against a priest in the Rapid City Catholic Diocese. That's according to the Meade County State's Attorneys Office.
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The Rapid City Catholic Diocese is talking, a day after the announcement of the investigation into an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest in the early 1980's.
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Former Rapid City Catholic priest and bishop-elect of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, Father Michel Mullow, has resigned his post amid allegations of sexual abuse.
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A 44-year old man is killed in a motorcycle crash in Harding County.
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Just last week, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon announced more budget cuts are on the way.
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The Department aims to provide home and community based services for those elderly and disabled adults.
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Since 1944 the Purple Heart is given only to soldiers who are killed or wounded in combat.To mark the day, Friday was National Purple Heart Day.