PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A committee of South Dakota lawmakers voted 4-3 to endorse a bill Thursday in Pierre that would require public school districts to teach the Ten Commandments and display them in every classroom.

Washington State athletic director Anne McCoy presents new head football coach Jimmy Rogers a jersey during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at Gesa Field in Pullman, Wash. (Geoff Crimmins/For The Spokesman-Review)

As the roster overhaul continues under new coach Jimmy Rogers, Washington State football picked up five new high school commits on Wednesday.

North Dakota hosts the South Dakota Coyotes after Mier Panoam scored 21 points in North Dakota's 76-72 win over the UMKC Kangaroos.

Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota, is being questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The bipartisan Trust in Congress Act prohibits members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks during their time in office.

Campbell at Hofstra, 6 p.m. Coll. of Charleston at Drexel, 6 p.m. Elon at Delaware, 6:30 p.m. Northeastern at Stony Brook, 6:31 p.m.

South Dakota won a share of its first Missouri Valley Football Conference championship and played in its first FCS semifinal in 2024.

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The narrative is shifting away from Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana as the home of football champions, and to midwest states. There was a time when when people thought of great football, their minds immediately went to the south.

The family's love for horse riding has been shared with generations in South Dakota and beyond. Willie Cowan and his family were influential in creating rodeo events in South Dakota. The Cowans were a part of the original founders of the South Dakota Rodeo Association and the South Dakota 4-H Rodeo.

Image Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota visiting the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, in July 2021.Credit...Stephen Groves/Associated Press “Kristi has been very strong on border security ...