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Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Sioux Falls march attracts hundreds
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — You may have noticed more protests being organized lately in KELOLAND. Thursday evening a crowd of several hundred people made their way from the Federal Courthouse to in downtown Sioux Falls to the Arc of Dreams. The March was organized by a group called Indivisible 605. They want to being attention to people who are being deported from the US without due process. This was one of several rallies organized to protest actions by the Trump administration. Marlon Mollet has attended several protests and says speaking up is important. Vote for South Dakota's best beef burger 'By standing up for our rights and for people and veterans, for workers for health care workers people who work for the VA, I think we make a noise to let our politicians know, hey we are concerned. said Mollet. 'And we want to make sure our benefits are protected, Medicare and Social Security. And if we don't have a voice, they could take it away, I don't know, hopefully they wouldn't but I think we need to let those people know that we are concerned about our benefits.' Tom: Why do this? 'I think if we don't do it, its basically telling them to go ahead and do what they want,' said Mollet. Like Mollet, Gaylord Helmbrecht served in the military. He is concerned about DOGE cuts to the VA system. 'I hate to see too many workers get let go they are looking at possible letting 80 thousand workers go throughout the VA system and we don't know how that is going to affect our health care. Helmbrecht says letting our elected officials know how we feel is important too. Sandra Callies is also active in the recent protest movement. She is an advocate for women's rights. She wants people to know that they can make a difference. 'More people interested in saying I don't like this I don't like what is happening right now, when wee were out in downtown Sioux Falls on April 5th, that was the most people I've seen in Sioux Falls or South Dakota since forever, said Callies. 'And so it means there is something wrong, one and two what are we going to do about it?' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Bethlehem enters playoffs as top seed in region
BETHLEHEM, Fla. (WMBB) – The Bethlehem boys basketball team is entering the playoffs as the top seed in Rural Region 1 and looking to ride home-court advantage to the Final Four. The Wildcats (23-2) are riding a 10-game win streak heading into regionals and coming off a district championship victory over Graceville, their first district title under head coach, Aaron Mollet. Bethlehem is a young group, mostly sophomores and juniors, led by junior Kolton Amerson, averaging 21.6 points per game. Amerson has the second most points scored in the Rural Classification this season and Coach Mollet said he is also their top defender. 'He's done a really good job of taking that next step forward and becoming our captain and our leader and guy we can lean on in the offensive and defensive,' Mollet said. 'There's night in and night out where he's guarding the best player on the defensive end. A lot of people see the scoring, but we enjoy having him on the defensive as well because he uses this length so well. He does a heck of a job.' The Wildcats will host the same team they beat in the district final in the opening round of the playoffs. Coach Mollet said beating Graceville three times in one season is very difficult, especially with a state championship-caliber coach in command, Mike Gates. 'Coach Gates is a fiery competitor,' Mollet said. 'He gets his kids up to play. That was a big game for them to defeat Chipley in the district final. I know he had those guys ready because that was for their season essentially. Now everyone is 0-0, the records, throw them out the window. Anybody can beat anybody on any given night. So, he'll have these guys ready to go.' Bethlehem will host Graceville on Wednesday, February 12, tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-02-2025
- Yahoo
Alone with a killer in the Montana wilderness
Late on Sept. 21, 1996, searchers found the body of 15-year-old Danielle "Danni" Houchins in a swampy area along the Gallatin River, a scenic valley just outside Bozeman, Montana. Exactly what had happened to Danni -- and how she had ended up face down in the mud -- would mystify her family, friends and investigators for decades. The case, and its stunning conclusion, is investigated by "48 Hours" and correspondent Peter Van Sant in "It's About Danni," airing Saturday, Feb. 8 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Back in 1996, Rachelle Schrute, now the Hunt & Fish editor at GearJunkie, knew both Danni and her sister Stephanie. She recalled, "They were the most down-to-earth, friendly people." Stephanie Mollet told Van Sant that there had been a family argument that morning, and Danni drove off to the Cameron Bridge Fishing Access area to get away. When Danni didn't come home that afternoon, their mother set out to find her. She found Danni's truck parked in the lot, her keys and water bottle along a nearby path, but no other signs of Danni. Deputies from the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office were called in to help but stopped searching after dark. That night, family friends who knew the marshy, heavily wooded area well, headed out to also look for Danni. They found her body in the muddy undergrowth, far back from the walking path. As word about what happened to Danni spread, some people in town speculated her death could have been a murder. Detectives started an investigation, collecting evidence from the crime scene, and interviewing people close to Danni, but no suspects were named. Schrute said that around the community, "there was so much other speculation … It just caused fear." But, within days, the coroner ruled that Danni had drowned, and that her manner of death was not a homicide, but rather "undetermined." Danni's family says they were told by officials that Danni's death could have been an accident. "That she 'could have just tripped and fell,'" said Mollet. "'We don't really know.'" Mollet found that hard to believe. Danni was an active and outdoorsy teenager, she says, who was comfortable fishing, hiking, and mountain climbing. Danni's case went cold, and as Mollet grew into adulthood, she vowed to find out the truth. "I promised my sister," said Stephanie. "I'm coming for you, Danni." In 2020, Mollet connected with new detectives at the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office, and demanded they fill her family in on the investigation. They let Mollet read the autopsy report, and she learned that in 1996, officials knew that there were bruises on Danni's body, including on the back of her neck. "Someone had held her head down forcefully," said Mollet. "There was (sic) vaginal injuries … there was semen in her underwear … she had fought and scratched." There was now no doubt in Mollet's mind that her sister had been raped and murdered. The new investigators agreed, and re-opened Danni's case. The new Gallatin County Sheriff then did something unusual. He reached outside his department, to a retired investigator living in the hills outside of Bozeman: Tom Elfmont. Elfmont dedicated himself to Danni's case. Knowing that huge advances had been made in DNA technology, he was able to get a partial DNA profile from the semen found on Danni's underpants. But they couldn't find a match. Digging deeper, Elfmont focused in on four male hairs that had been found on Danni's body. They were "rootless" hairs — without any skin cells — which for a long time were thought of as almost impossible to get DNA from. But not anymore. Through a state-of-the-art private lab, Elfmont was able to get a full suspect DNA profile from one of those hairs. Elfmont shared that profile with an investigative genetic genealogist, who used family trees to search for relatives of the unknown suspect. In May 2024, they got a name: Paul Hutchinson. Elfmont learned that in 1996, Hutchinson had been a graduate student in nearby Bozeman, and he had a work-study with the Fish and Wildlife Service "which would have put him on the waterways around Belgrade." Elfmont said Hutchinson went on to work as a fisheries biologist for the Bureau of Land Management. He had no criminal record and was married with two children. And he was well-known in local hunting and fishing circles. In July, 2024, with a body camera rolling, Eflmont and his partner went to Hutchinson's office to interview him. Elfmont said Hutchinson became visibly nervous, especially when asked about Danni's case. But they didn't directly ask Hutchinson if he had killed Danni. As Elfmont told Van Sant, "Didn't need to." They didn't yet have enough evidence to arrest him, but hours after the interview, Hutchinson took his own life. Afterwards, his DNA was confirmed to match the evidence from Danni's body. When the Gallatin County sheriff announced the case had been solved after nearly 30 years, there was shock all around. But for Mollet's childhood friend, Schrute, it was even greater. As she heard the killer's name announced, she realized she had known him for almost 20 years. Schrute says she considered him a friend and had relied on him for years as a "trusted resource when it came to hunting and fishing." Not only that, but for years they had gone on hunting and fishing trips together -- sometimes just the two of them. For someone who had always trusted her gut — in the wild, and around men — Schrute says she never once questioned his character. When asked if she could have said something to him after finding out he had killed Danni, Schrute said strongly, "How dare you just be a person in my life? How dare you just exist and go on to have … a family, and a career, and all of these things that you had? How dare you when you all along, you knew." Search for plane that went missing off Alaska with 10 people on board How a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl win could make the NBA's Pat Riley a lot of money Locals fight to keep polar bear hot-spot alive
CBS News
07-02-2025
- CBS News
Alone with a killer in the Montana wilderness
Late on Sept. 21, 1996, searchers found the body of 15-year-old Danielle "Danni" Houchins in a swampy area along the Gallatin River, a scenic valley just outside Bozeman, Montana. Exactly what had happened to Danni -- and how she had ended up face down in the mud -- would mystify her family, friends and investigators for decades. The case, and its stunning conclusion, is investigated by "48 Hours" and correspondent Peter Van Sant in "It's About Danni," airing Saturday, Feb. 8 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Back in 1996, Rachelle Schrute, now the Hunt & Fish editor at GearJunkie, knew both Danni and her sister Stephanie. She recalled, "They were the most down-to-earth, friendly people." Stephanie Mollet told Van Sant that there had been a family argument that morning, and Danni drove off to the Cameron Bridge Fishing Access area to get away. When Danni didn't come home that afternoon, their mother set out to find her. She found Danni's truck parked in the lot, her keys and water bottle along a nearby path, but no other signs of Danni. Deputies from the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office were called in to help but stopped searching after dark. That night, family friends who knew the marshy, heavily wooded area well, headed out to also look for Danni. They found her body in the muddy undergrowth, far back from the walking path. As word about what happened to Danni spread, some people in town speculated her death could have been a murder. Detectives started an investigation, collecting evidence from the crime scene, and interviewing people close to Danni, but no suspects were named. Schrute said that around the community, "there was so much other speculation … It just caused fear." But, within days, the coroner ruled that Danni had drowned, and that her manner of death was not a homicide, but rather "undetermined." Danni's family says they were told by officials that Danni's death could have been an accident. "That she 'could have just tripped and fell,'" said Mollet. "'We don't really know.'" Mollet found that hard to believe. Danni was an active and outdoorsy teenager, she says, who was comfortable fishing, hiking, and mountain climbing. Danni's case went cold, and as Mollet grew into adulthood, she vowed to find out the truth. "I promised my sister," said Stephanie. "I'm coming for you, Danni." In 2020, Mollet connected with new detectives at the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office, and demanded they fill her family in on the investigation. They let Mollet read the autopsy report, and she learned that in 1996, officials knew that there were bruises on Danni's body, including on the back of her neck. "Someone had held her head down forcefully," said Mollet. "There was (sic) vaginal injuries … there was semen in her underwear … she had fought and scratched." There was now no doubt in Mollet's mind that her sister had been raped and murdered. The new investigators agreed, and re-opened Danni's case. The new Gallatin County Sheriff then did something unusual. He reached outside his department, to a retired investigator living in the hills outside of Bozeman: Tom Elfmont. Elfmont dedicated himself to Danni's case. Knowing that huge advances had been made in DNA technology, he was able to get a partial DNA profile from the semen found on Danni's underpants. But they couldn't find a match. Digging deeper, Elfmont focused in on four male hairs that had been found on Danni's body. They were "rootless" hairs — without any skin cells — which for a long time were thought of as almost impossible to get DNA from. But not anymore. Through a state-of-the-art private lab, Elfmont was able to get a full suspect DNA profile from one of those hairs. Elfmont shared that profile with an investigative genetic genealogist, who used family trees to search for relatives of the unknown suspect. In May 2024, they got a name: Paul Hutchinson. Elfmont learned that in 1996, Hutchinson had been a graduate student in nearby Bozeman, and he had a work-study with the Fish and Wildlife Service "which would have put him on the waterways around Belgrade." Elfmont said Hutchinson went on to work as a fisheries biologist for the Bureau of Land Management. He had no criminal record and was married with two children. And he was well-known in local hunting and fishing circles. In July, 2024, with a body camera rolling, Eflmont and his partner went to Hutchinson's office to interview him. Elfmont said Hutchinson became visibly nervous, especially when asked about Danni's case. But they didn't directly ask Hutchinson if he had killed Danni. As Elfmont told Van Sant, "Didn't need to." They didn't yet have enough evidence to arrest him, but hours after the interview, Hutchinson took his own life. Afterwards, his DNA was confirmed to match the evidence from Danni's body. When the Gallatin County sheriff announced the case had been solved after nearly 30 years, there was shock all around. But for Mollet's childhood friend, Schrute, it was even greater. As she heard the killer's name announced, she realized she had known him for almost 20 years. Schrute says she considered him a friend and had relied on him for years as a "trusted resource when it came to hunting and fishing." Not only that, but for years they had gone on hunting and fishing trips together -- sometimes just the two of them. For someone who had always trusted her gut — in the wild, and around men — Schrute says she never once questioned his character. When asked if she could have said something to him after finding out he had killed Danni, Schrute said strongly, "How dare you just be a person in my life? How dare you just exist and go on to have … a family, and a career, and all of these things that you had? How dare you when you all along, you knew."
