Rushmore News

Officials say they're canceling Mount Rushmore's nationally televised July Fourth fireworks show because of wildfire worries.

Eleven members of the environmental group Greenpeace - including a Minnesotan - were sentenced today in federal court in Rapid City for hanging a banner on Mount Rushmore National Memorial last July.

MARLIN H. MITCHELL, age 65, of rural Rushmore, died Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, at his home.

By Kelly Johnson Staff writer Melodious sounds ring out in a building nestled in Nowthen.

NEW YORK - "Can I do a flashback?" asks Jason Schwartzman. The 29-year-old actor and musician is chatting over coffee, sitting in a Manhattan hotel lobby almost Zen-like, but full of questions and curiosity.

On a night that felt more like late September than late August the Jackson Speedway Touring Series invaded the Nobles County Speedway in Worthington for the Worthington Nationals.

On a rather cool and breezy night last Friday, 71 sprint cars checked in the ASA-sanctioned Jackson Speedway for night two of the 31st Annual Jackson Nationals sponsored by Svoboda Excavating of Jackson.