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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The number of new cases here in South Dakota has now risen for eight straight weeks, with a total of 970 new cases this week.
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The number of new cases of COVID-19 here in South Dakota has been on the rise for more than a month and a half. But the CDC says South Dakota is doing better than almost the entire rest of the country.
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South Dakota is reporting a total of 453 new cases this week. 63 of those are from Pennington County, with 16 each in Lawrence and Oglala Lakota Counties and 15 in Meade County.
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The number of new cases in South Dakota is up for the third straight week, with a total of 373 new cases this week.
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A Rapid City man is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the shooting death of 19-year old Ocean Eberlein back in November of 2020.
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The Appeals Court reversed three of Garbacz's wire fraud convictions.But the court let the other convictions stand, along with his sentence and restitution.
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The new tipi was painted by local artist Martin E. Red Bear and features a total of 41 horses, no two alike and no two with the same color scheme.
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A Pennington County Grand Jury has now indicted 19-year old Quincy Bear Robe on a charge of second degree murder and commission of a felony with a firearm.
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20-year old Jonnie Fineran pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the stabbing death of Thomas Sitting Bear in Manderson in July of 2020.
Last week, they were listing 2,323 active cases. That drops all the way down to 488 active cases this week.
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The former owner of Thirsty's in downtown Rapid City pleads guilty to a tax charge in federal court Friday afternoon.
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A Pennsylvania man is sentenced to ten years in federal prison Friday after being caught in a sex sting during the 2020 Sturgis Rally.
We've talked through the pandemic about how health experts want to see the positivity rate for COVID-19 tests to be below five percent.
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Mayoral candidate Tammy Bohn and council candidates Justin Bonn and Brenda Vasknetz filed the suit, claiming the 2007 vote to change to a city manager form of government wasn't valid.
Starting this week, South Dakota is reporting COVID numbers just once a week, on Wednesdays.
19-year old Quincy Bear Robe made his first appearance in Seventh Circuit Court Tuesday morning.
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Artist Deborah Mitchell lost her garage art studio in that string of fires. She says it's been a struggle since then, but is now looking to move forward.
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In plea deal, Rapid City man admits to shooting another man during an argument.
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One of the goals of health experts has been to get the percentage of COVID tests that turn out positive below five percent. They're getting close to that in South Dakota.
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Custer County Search and Rescue is asking for the public’s help in finding a missing hunter. They began searching for Jerry Paul Constance (he goes by Paul) on Tuesday night.
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Originally charged with murder, 36-year old Dirk Garnier pleaded guilty in federal court to voluntary manslaughter and discharge of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence in the death of Beau Blacksmith.
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The South Dakota Department of Health says 93 percent of the state's residents age 75 and up are now vaccinated against COVID-19. That's the highest percentage of any age group.
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The number of active cases falls to 9,771, dropping below 10,000 for the first time since January 3rd.
Just three weeks ago, the state had 36,155 active cases. Since then, that figure has fallen by 67 percent, down by 24,872 cases, with the figures out Tuesday.
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The number of active cases falls for the 13th straight report, dropping by another 1,904 to 15,679.
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The South Dakota Department of Health says 70.4 percent of the state residents age five and up have now received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
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For the Week of January 9th through the 13th, the South Dakota Department of Health listed 857 confirmed and 421 probable cases in the state's K-through-12 schools.
The number of active cases in the state has now fallen in ten straight reports, dropping by another 1,947 to 23,105.
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Monday’s rally started at the bandshell at Memorial Park, with the group then marching from there to the Rapid City Federal Courthouse.
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With drought and pricing problems for producers, these have been tough times for a lot of ranchers. But they still need equipment, and that has equipment dealers adjusting to the changing marketplace.
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There was an enthusiastic group Friday at the youth goat show at the Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo. But keeping them can be a challenge these days with so many things going on.
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Tilsen is charged with second degree robbery and two counts of simple assault against law enforcement.
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South Dakota sees its first death from COVID-19 from someone in the 10-to-19 year old age group. The state Department of Health says that person was from Pennington County.
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The seven-day rolling average for new cases reached 2,105 cases a day on the 16th of this month.By the 27th, that average had fallen to 1,199, dropping by nearly half.
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Senator John Thune told Axios earlier this month that there’s some interest among Senate Republicans to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
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Thune has climbed up the ranks in Washington over the past 18 years and now serves as the Senate Minority Whip.
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The state continues distributing one million Flowflex COVID antigen home-tests, with over 560,000 kits processed and shipped this week.
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Thune has seen a big rise through the ranks into leadership positions in the Senate since he was first elected to the Senate in 2004.
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It's official. There's going to be an opening on the United States Supreme Court.Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement Thursday at the White House.
Rapid City Area Schools says they had 182 students and 34 staff with active cases of COVID on Wednesday.
The number of active cases falls by 82 to 36,155, the first time that total has dropped since December 23rd, when it stood at a 7,090.
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Over the past seven days, that rate has been at 41-percent in the state.
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33-year old Dreau Rogers is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife, 43-year old Destiny Rogers, early Saturday morning in their home on North St. Joe Street in Spearfish.
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There are a total of 2,183 new cases Friday in South Dakota, with 427 of those in Pennington County.
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The South Dakota Department of Health says 69-percent of the state's population age five and up have now received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine and 56-percent have completed their series of shots.
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.