Jeremy Fugleberg
Grand Forks Herald
Sioux Falls, SD, United States
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Avera Health cutting 'nonclinical' jobs, blames inflation
Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, said it is cutting jobs among its nonclinical workforce, including those in administration, but not positions such as doctors and nurses. The health system is not alone in reckoning with skyrocketing costs across the board due to inflation. → Read More
Years after North Dakota woman Shelly Julson went missing, dogged detective work revealed new clues
In this episode of Dakota Spotlight, retired Bismarck Police Detective Bill Connor speaks frankly about the details of the case, still sharp in his memory, and his encounters with those connected to Michelle "Shelly" Julson as he re-investigated the case from 2005 to 2010. → Read More
South Dakota reports first West Nile virus cases of the season
State health officials identified two cases, in Minnehaha and Spink counties. South Dakota has reported more than 2,681 human cases and 47 deaths since West Nile virus was first reported in the state in 2002. → Read More
Dakota Spotlight podcast issues 'Open Letter to a Killer' in Diede/Anderson missing persons case
In the last scheduled episode of this season, Dakota Spotlight pulls back the curtain on the decades of pain, loss and questions suffered — often in silence — by those who knew and loved Kristin Diede and Bob Anderson, two Minnesotans gone missing in North Dakota in August 1993. → Read More
A mother and 2 sons shot dead in their beds: South Dakota's gruesome Mathis killings examined in new book
The Mathis case, the trial and the questions that remain to this day are the subject of a new book, "South Dakota's Mathis Murders: Horror in the Heartland" by long-time South Dakota journalist Noel Hamiel. The book is available to purchase on Monday. → Read More
In South Dakota, COVID-19 hospitalizations near 8-month low
There are 43 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in South Dakota, state health officials reported March 30. That's the lowest total since Aug. 4. → Read More
'Did you kill Kristin and Bob?' Dakota Spotlight podcast narrows focus to call on 1993 missing persons case
In this week's episode, the investigative true crime podcast plays its entire interview with a significant person in this season: Clyde Diede, a chiropractor in Winner, South Dakota, and husband of Kristin Diede when she went missing with her boyfriend Bob Anderson in 1993. → Read More
In SD, active COVID-19 cases drop to 7-month low
Active COVID-19 cases in South Dakota dropped to a low not seen since Aug. 20, according to the South Dakota Department of Health. → Read More
An ominous visit. A curious discovery. New revelations in case of missing couple Kristin Diede & Bob Anderson
TV news reporter Dan MacDonald expected worried family members, maybe a town gripped by the idea that two people just up and disappeared not that long ago. What he got in Wishek in 1995 was something far different, and the trip continues to haunt him. → Read More
In South Dakota, COVID-19 cases near 7-month low, deaths top 2,870
South Dakota health officials said effective next week, they'll report COVID-19 data weekly on Wednesdays, starting March 23. Forum New Service will match that reporting pattern, posting the data mid-week. → Read More
How do two people vanish? What blanked news of missing couple Kristin Diede and Bob Anderson
How do two people just disappear? How does that happen and not trigger a massive manhunt, blanket TV coverage, cable news coverage and some sort of Netflix documentary show? In the case of Kristin Diede and Bob Anderson, it was about who they were. Or perhaps more so – who they weren’t. → Read More
Clues in Diede-Anderson case found 100 miles away in South Dakota, investigators tell family members
Family members sought to learn what authorities knew about what happened to Bob Anderson and his girlfriend Kristin Diede on a road trip to Wishek, North Dakota in 1993. Law enforcement had a lot to tell the family, including a startling detail about clues from a South Dakota town 100 miles away from Wishek in the days after Kristin and Bob disappeared. → Read More
In South Dakota, latest COVID-19 surge quickly wanes
Active cases and hospitalizations continue to fall in South Dakota, as the COVID-19 surge in the state recedes from late-January peak, although 43 new fatalities were reported in the past week. → Read More
South Dakota reports 13 COVID-19 fatalities, capping deadly month
The newly reported fatalities on Monday raise January's reported death toll to the most of any month in a year, even as active cases and hospitalizations fell. → Read More
South Dakota active COVID-19 cases slide for third straight day
Active COVID-19 cases in South Dakota fell 781 to 34,753 on Thursday, falling for the third straight day from a pandemic all-time high of 36,247 on Monday. The active case count measures new positive cases against new recoveries, but doesn't count anyone whose positive test wasn't reported to state health officials. → Read More
Nursing is in crisis. The pandemic is largely to blame. Here's what comes next
The pandemic has changed nursing, raising questions about the future of nursing and most immediately, who wants to even be a nurse. This crisis in nursing is causing nursing educators to quickly rethink how they train their students and making health systems rethink how they recruit and retain nurses. → Read More
First child COVID-19 death reported in South Dakota, pandemic surges
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota health officials reported the first known COVID-19 child fatality in the state amid a widening pandemic surge Wednesday, Jan. 12 → Read More
In South Dakota, active COVID-19 cases hit all-time high
Health systems in the state regularly report that the overwhelming majority of those hospitalized for COVID-19 are those who aren't vaccinated. Vaccination rates in the state have remained below the national average and continue to creep up, with nearly 58% of the state's population received a full course of a vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, about… → Read More
South Dakota to give out 1M COVID-19 tests amid pandemic surge
State health officials said late Friday they had procured the million FlowFlex antigen rapid home test kits, which will be made available free of charge to residents who want one. Besides distributing the tests via testing partners, the state Department of Health will also publish on its website and social media channels a list of locations where residents can pick up a test. → Read More
South Dakota COVID-19 hospitalizations break yearlong high, as cases skyrocket
There are now 305 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in South Dakota, up 18 since Wednesday, and another 2,183 positive cases raises the active case count to 14,355, according to the South Dakota Department of Health That's nearly double the number of active cases last week. Hospitalizations last stood near the current level on Dec. 24, 2020. → Read More