RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health awarded South Dakota Mines Mining Engineering and Management professors Rudrajit Mitra and Andrea Brickey a $1.25 million grant to research safety improvements in underground mining.

With mining science advancements allowing for deeper digs, Mitra says safety needs to be at the forefront.

“As you go deeper, they squish the opening,” Mitra said. “So, there’s a lot of movement in the rock. Our task is to make sure that stays open for the life of the mine, but also as people are walking in and out, as equipment is driving in and out, they don’t fall.”

Mitra and Brickey will collaborate with professors from Colorado School of Mines and Montana State University in the project.

See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please click here to report it.

Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send it to us here with a brief description.

Copyright 2025 KOTA. All rights reserved.

WEST ALLIS, Wis. – Wisconsin State Fair officials announced on Wednesday, Jan. 15 that Boyz II Men will return to the State Fair to headline the Bank Five Nine Main Stage on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. 

What we know:

Tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. at WiStateFair.com. All seating for this show is reserved, and tickets will be $47 – $62. 

Each ticket includes admission to the 2025 Wisconsin State Fair for the day of the show when purchased prior to entering the State Fair Park.   

Become a Friend of the Fair:

Tickets are available for pre-sale with the Friends of the Fair membership, which benefits the Wisconsin State Fair Park Foundation. This non-profit organization helps support the State Fair and State Fair Park initiatives. 

SIGN UP TODAY: Get daily headlines, breaking news emails from FOX6 News

Get access to the pre-sale and become a Friend of the Fair by visiting WSFPFoundation.org. 

An Ohio man has been accused of murdering his girlfriend, whose body was found nearly 25 years ago, after he previously escaped charges in the case. 

Jonathan Eric Link, 60, was arrested at his home in Centerville, Ohio on Monday for the murder of 29-year-old Shannon Anderson, the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office announced. 

Link reported Anderson missing to authorities on July 30, 2001, and her remains were discovered on Aug. 16, 2001, in rural Ross County. 

“Finally, after nearly a quarter century, this defendant will be held responsible for the murder of Shannon Anderson,” Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck, Jr. said in a statement. 

NEW VIDEO SHOWS BIZARRE BEHAVIOR OF OHIO TEEN WHO INTENTIONALLY KILLED BOYFRIEND: ‘SHOCKING LACK OF REMORSE’

Just months into the investigation, police found Anderson’s car abandoned in the Atlanta Airport parking lot. 

A 2002 Montgomery County grand jury found there was not enough evidence to indict Link for the murder, and since then, the Kettering Police Department has worked with cold case detectives to investigate. 

Recently, the Tactical Crime Suppression Unit (TCSU) was assigned to help police, and investigators from multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Secret Service, assisted in the case. 

JUDGE ALLOWS ‘SLENDER MAN’ STABBER TO GET OUT OF PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL AFTER MULTIPLE REQUESTS

Jonathan Link was arrested and indicted for the murder of Anderson. (Montgomery County Prosecutor)

Additional witnesses were located and interviewed, and new forensic evidence was digitally tested. The case was presented a second time to a Montgomery County grand jury, which found enough evidence to indict Link for the murder of Anderson. 

The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office in Dayton, Ohio.

“I applaud the excellent work by the Kettering Police Department and all of the other agencies working together to develop this case so we could present it to the grand jury,” Heck said in his statement. 

Link was indicted on two counts of murder. His arraignment hearing is scheduled for Jan. 28.