SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – The Sioux Falls Stampede Hockey Club announced today that the contract for Head Coach Eric Rud will not be renewed for the 2024-2025 season.

“These decisions are never easy, but the organization as a whole felt that a change needed to be made,” stated Stampede Vice President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Tony Gasparini. “We thank Eric for all of his hard work and dedication over the last two seasons and wish him nothing but the best in his future endeavors.”

Rud posted a record of 51-59-14 in two years behind the bench for the Herd. The club qualified for the 2024 Clark Cup Playoffs this season, losing in round one in three games to the Tri-City Storm.

The Stampede will make an announcement early next week on a new head coach.

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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – National Drug Take Back Day falls on Saturday, April 27, and it offers Americans a chance to anonymously dispose of expired or unwanted medicines. Unused medications can be hazardous – particularly to young children and pets who might come across them.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley spoke about the benefits of National Drug Take Back Day and South Dakota’s past success in the campaign.

“It gets the dangerous drugs away from kids and grandkids to avoid an accident,” Jackley said. “And we’ve been able to receive over 53 thousand pounds of medicine.”

Participating locations in Rapid City include Boyd’s Drug Mart, Walgreens, The Medicine Shoppe, Monument Health, Oyate Health Center, and the Pennington County Public Safety Building.

A full list of participating locations in South Dakota can be found here.

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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Native American history is the backbone of South Dakota, as April 26 is National South Dakota Day, Native American Hoop Dancing brings culture and history together.

Native American Hoop Dancing is a dance style, and dancer Delacina Chief Eagle tells us how important it is to Native American History. Through the dance, you can tell a life story, the first hoop representing the beginning of life, and as the dance goes on, performers collect more hoops- symbolizing oneself getting older and wiser, as well as respecting those who came before them.

Native American Hoop Dance is an individual dance, and it is performed as a show dance in many Native American tribes. It features a solo dancer dancing with a dozen or more hoops and using them to form a variety of static and dynamic shapes, poses, and moves. Most of the hoop dances in tribes across North America belong to modern hoop dance, which was invented in 1930.

Delacina Chief Eagle is a hoop dancer, she did Indian relay racing for 15 years and participated in spiritual horse rides from just 3 years old. She has also done a little bit of modeling and was featured in the documentary Women of the White Buffalo which focused on Lakota women. Horses play a very important role in her life so in the last 3 years she has been working on professional thoroughbred horse racing tracks across America. She also teaches Hoop Dancing to kids across the state.

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