SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Marshfield Clinic Health System has reached a memo of understanding to merge with Sanford Health. Should the merger go through, the combined system would bring together nearly 56,000 employees and 56 hospitals. Sanford Health would serve as the parent company and the headquarters would remain in Sioux Falls. Marshfield Clinic Health System based in Wisconsin…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KVRR) –A Lakeville toddler has died after falling from a third story hotel room window. It happened while the family was staying in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. According to the GoFundMe set up for the family, the 19-month-old boy was taken to a local hospital where he was hospitalized. He died two days later. His family says…
FLANDREAU, S.D. (KFGO) – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says 40-year-old Joseph Hoek of Sioux Falls has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated eluding for the death of Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok last Friday afternoon. Prorok was killed when when he was struck by a car driven by Hoek. Prorok was attempting to put down…
PIERRE, S.D.(KVRR/AP) — Sixteen and 17 year olds can still wed in South Dakota, with consent, after a legislative committee shot down an effort to raise the age to 18 by a vote of 8 to 5. The bills sponsor, Democratic Rep. Kadyn Wittman of Sioux Falls, says between 2000 and 2020, 838 minors got married in the state. 81…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KFGO) — Sanford Health and Twin Cities-headquartered Fairview Health Services have signed a non-binding letter of intent to combine and create a new health system. A joint statement says the combined system would bring together Sanford’s rural population hospitals and clinics with Fairview’s experience in serving urban populations and would be uniquely positioned to provide more people…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Another restaurant in Fargo has closed for good. Johnny Carino’s, a block off of 45th Street South, closed permanently as of Tuesday according to a social media post. The operators wrote that they were “sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.” People asking about unused gift cards were told to send them to an address in…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Police in Sioux Falls used smoke bombs to try to disperse hundreds of people protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Police Chief Jon Thum said there were a “couple of arrests” during the demonstration Wednesday night in downtown Sioux Falls. Thum said those arrested could face a charge of failing to disperse…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Country Music Hall of Fame member Hank Williams Jr. has Alerus Center in Grand Forks on his limited 2022 tour schedule. Hank will take the stage on Sunday, May 29 along with ACM New Female Artist of the Year Lainey Wilson. The tour includes just 16 stops and in addition to Grand Forks, they’ll also play…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) — FBI agents searched two West Fargo contracting businesses this week, but the bureau has not said what the investigations pertain to or whether they’re connected. The FBI confirms that agents searched Pro-Mark Services on Thursday. MDM Construction was also searched. A spokesman says he cannot provide information on what agents were looking for in either…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Police say three teenagers from Minnesota were beaten with a gun at a bar in Sioux Falls, which caused severe head injuries to one of the victims. Sioux Falls police spokesman Sam Clemens says the assaults took place Sunday about 1 a.m. at an unnamed bar where two boys and a girl were beaten with a…
