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We'll never have closure because we'll never have our son and our daughters back.
A family is reliving the horror of the night their two teenage children died in a collision with a drunk driver.
The man convicted of taking those children's lives wanted his sentence reduced.
The fatal accident and the legal battle that followed is our top story.
23-year-old Jared Schwebach was serving a 25-year sentence for killing two Brandon teenagers.
He was driving drunk the night of January 29, 1998.
Well today a judge reduced that sentence to 22 years for good behavior in prison.
Not surprisingly the victim's family is not happy about that sentence reduction.
Judica Drote joins us now live with more on that.
Judica?
Well Alex, even though it's been 18 months since the tragic accident,
the tears in today's courtroom were evidence that the pain never really fades.
But when I talked to the family of one of the victims,
they said hearing Schwebach apologize helped ease some of their pain.
As if it happened yesterday, family, friends and supporters came to the courthouse.
The looks on their faces as they relived the hardship of their sudden loss said it all.
They will never again see 17-year-old Angie Rosebooma Valley Springs
or 16-year-old Eric Scherenbrock of Brandon.
The two were celebrating their eighth month anniversary
when the car they were riding was struck by 23-year-old Jared Schwebach.
Schwebach was legally drunk, not the first time alcohol got him in trouble with the law.
Today, Schwebach's lawyers told the court of Schwebach's excellent prison record
and that he goes to alcohol anonymous every Monday night.
He repaid the family's all the costs of the funeral and counseling to try and remedy economic hardship.
They asked the judge to reduce his 25-year sentence.
The prosecution argued though that Schwebach did nothing more than live up to expectations
that all of us have in the courtroom.
No reason to second-guess the original sentence.
Schwebach himself addressed the family and said,
I wish I could tell you all I'm very, very sorry,
and I wish so much I could do more to make up for my mistake.
Jared said he was very sorry. Does that help at all ease the pain?
Yes, it does. I saw the remorse in his eyes and we're happy about that.
Now the teen's parents have also found some solace in a group called Tie One On.
They started that. They go to different schools now and talk about the pain that drunk driving can cause families.
Reporting live in the newsroom, Judica Droet, Dakota First News.
Alright, thanks, Judica. The judge also gave Schwebach credit for 77 days that he served in jail before he was sentenced.
And now, meteorologist Phil Schreck with Dakota First Weather.
It's another hot, sticky one outside today with temperatures in the 80s and 90s.
Here's a look at the latest readings across the area.
We have 89 in Sioux Falls, 95 in Pier 91 Chamberlain, 84 Aberdeen.
But you factor in that humidity, it feels quite a bit warmer.
In Sioux Falls, it feels like 97. 103 is the heat index, and here on in Pier 89 is what it feels like when you factor in the humidity in Aberdeen.
Some relief is coming away from the west, and it'll be on top of us by Friday for most of us anyway.
But it's also going to produce some scattered thunderstorms.
We'll have the complete forecast for you just a little bit later.
Alright, Phil, looking forward to that. Thanks.
Governor Janklow is back in the public eye today.
He talked to reporters for the first time since his surgery at the Mayo Clinic on June 25th.
And with his wife by his side, he talked about his medical condition and his slow recovery.
After exploratory surgery, doctors declared him cancer-free.
But Janklow has had a hard time recovering.
Today, he says those problems are behind him.
It's just a matter of recovery, and I'm getting babysat terribly well.
And I'm eating very well. And I'm getting well taken care of.
So we're really on the road to recovery.
Governor Janklow plans on attending his wife's ice cream social in Pier tonight.
The governor also said he has no plans to reconvene the legislature to change Senate Bill 95, the price reporting measure.
It requires packers buying livestock for slaughter to pay the same price for similar quality livestock.
They must also report purchases to state and federal agencies.
Janklow says most farmers and ranchers still haven't felt the impact.
After months of planning, the price is in for a new jail.
If the citizens of Minnehaha County want it, they're going to have to shell out about $34 million.
An architectural firm presented the cost to the commission today.
The money covers the construction of a new 330-bed facility and remodeling the current jail into office space.
It's about $7 million more than estimated, but many say it's worth it.
It would seem to make better sense, certainly, to build a new facility as opposed to trying to renovate the recreation center.
Right now, the county doesn't have enough money to cover the $34 million.
It may have to consider opting out of the property tax freeze in order to do that.
Meanwhile, Mayor Gary Hanson's search continues for a private engineer to survey the Washington Pavilion.
Cracks were recently found on the floating mezzanine, and he says he wants to hire an unbiased firm to look at the problem.
He also says he doesn't care whose toes he has to step on to do that.
We all should care about keeping our environment clean and healthy,
but there are a lot of different opinions on what should be done with our wetlands.
Keely Chalmers joins us now to begin a special team report.
Well, Mitch, for some, wetlands are a good thing.
They help wildlife, water quality, and the soil.
But for others, they are nuisances that cut yields and make tough economic times even tougher on farmers.
David Peterson begins our team coverage tonight with a report from here on.
It's no secret that years of flooding have led officials to define many areas as wetlands.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture changed the way South Dakota wetlands are defined.
The National Resource Conservation Service rules would let farmers drain more small wetlands
without seeing their farm program payments decrease.
What we want to do is drain the little linear depressions in the soil that are more of a nuisance than anything else.
But not everyone is happy with the change.
Environmental groups say the ruling could harm waterfowl, increase flooding,
and raise the threat of pesticide pollution in underground water.
They should retract the existing authorizations and wait until a process works out like the MOA had envisioned.
What the Sierra Club is really interested in is for NRCS and the other agencies who are working on this
to go out and take environmental impact tests, which will talk about different issues like flooding.
All the groups agree they want the issue to be resolved quickly
if a minimum of damage to farmers and the environment. David Peterson, Dakota First News, here on.
Now several groups are suing over the change allowing farmers to drain the wetlands.
They include the National Wildlife Federation, the South Dakota Wildlife Federation,
the Isaac Walton League, and the Flandreau-Santi Sioux Tribe.
And it's not just a state issue. Minnehaha County is also jumping on the bandwagon.
It's totally revamping its 12-year-old agricultural drainage ordinance.
For the first time, it will include language regarding wetlands.
So heads up to all you farmers out there.
It's no longer simply strict federal guidelines you have to adhere to.
You now have to follow strict county guidelines as well.
Well, our old ordinance didn't mention anything about wetlands.
I believe the word wetlands was referred to. There was no definition for it.
We are in the process of putting some policies also into our ordinance.
The revised ordinance will define a wetland.
As the United States Department of Agriculture defines it,
it must contain the following three elements.
A certain soil type. The soils are created underwater.
Hydrology. Water is found at certain times of the year.
And a certain type of vegetation.
The land contains vegetation found growing in water-saturated soil.
There's also no policy regarding the preservation of wetlands
in the current county drainage ordinance.
The new policy discourages draining wetlands.
Now if you do plant crops on land considered to be a wetland,
you could face some pretty strict penalties.
For one, you could lose all eligibility to federal farm program benefits.
Reporting live in the newsroom, I'm Keely Chalmers, Dakota First News.
Thanks, Keely. The County Commission will vote to accept the new drainage ordinance in two weeks.
Well, here's a look at what's coming up a little later on Dakota First News.
Is the South Dakota Symphony promising more than it can deliver?
And the Sioux Empire Fair announces its final grandstand entertainment.
We'll have the details on that after weather. Phil?
And coming up in just a couple of minutes, I'm going to have your forecast
to let you know about some cooler air working its way in by the weekend.
I'll tell you about it. Stay tuned.
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We're back with Dakota First News. Thanks for joining us this evening.
Is there any relief coming in the way of rainfall?
Well, we're going to try to get some in here.
This is the Rapid City Doppler radar.
And some light showers trying to get up out of Nebraska,
but notice how they just kind of fall apart when they get across the border.
We're also seeing some activity getting closer in portions of Wyoming.
But in central South Dakota, it's dry, very hot, and very sticky.
But we do expect some scattered showers and storms to develop later on tonight.
And thankfully, it looks like the severe stuff should stay away from us.
Here's the wider view now at the Dakota First Doppler radar.
We're seeing some showers and storms developing just across the Missouri River
into South Dakota, coming across out of Nebraska.
But again, notice how west they just kind of falling apart as they move northward.
But we do think we'll see some scattered storms developing later on tonight and into tomorrow.
The better chances are going to be during the day tomorrow.
We're just going to have widely scattered stuff in here tonight.
It's not going to be very widespread at all.
Meanwhile, threat for severe weather back to the west tonight and over into Minnesota.
But overnight and into tomorrow, a slight risk area for severe weather
comes into central and eastern sections of South Dakota.
So whatever storms do develop tomorrow have the chance of becoming severe
so that something we'll have to look out for as some cooler air works its way in from the west.
But right now, temperatures in the 80s and 90s, 89 right now in winter,
82, Moabridge, 93 here on 91, Chamberlain, 95 in Pierre.
But you know, you're fattening that humidity. It feels a lot warmer than that.
100 is the heat index in Chamberlain. 103 is what it feels like in Pierre.
The temperature is 95. It's mostly sunny.
Humidity 45 percent. That's kind of deceiving.
But the dew points are up into the 70s and that's very, very sticky air.
East southeast wind at 15. The pressure 29.73 and it's falling.
95 is the high so far today. The low is 68 above the normals of 89 and 61.
There are your records. No precipitation today in the capital city.
Here's the heat in place across the central part of the country.
The jet stream ridging way up to the north.
There is a trough though off to the west and that is going to be moving our way
gradually over the next couple of days.
So relief is coming our way from the heat and humidity.
But it's still going to take a day or so to get here.
Here's a look now at the national map.
A big area of low pressure off to our northwest.
It's going to kind of slide up to the north and east.
So we're still going to have the warm and sticky air on top of us.
But as this front comes in from the north and west,
that will cloud the sky up for us by the afternoon and give us some scattered thunderstorms.
And then another shot of cooler air coming in from the northwest as we head into Friday and Saturday.
High temperatures tomorrow are going to be in the mid to upper 80s.
It will feel warmer than that though with the humidity.
Then on Friday, relatively cooler air coming in from the north and west.
There's a chance for a couple of thunderstorms during the day on Friday,
mainly in the morning hours as this front and low pressure system just kind of stalls out.
Here's a forecast now for tonight. Partly cloudy, chance for some widely scattered thunderstorms.
A muggy low of 70. A northeast wind will become southeast at 10 to 15.
Tomorrow mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms developing, mainly in the afternoon.
We'll have a high of 88. South wind becoming northwest at 10 to 15 miles an hour.
Here's the five day forecast. Somewhat cooler air coming in for Friday.
It's going to be drier air too. Partly cloudy, chance for scattered thunderstorms.
Then mostly cloudy, scattered thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday.
Highs in the low 80s. Monday is looking like the nicest day of the next five.
Partly cloudy and 80 degrees. Unfortunately we're going to have to wait five days down the road
for that nice day to come our way. But we're going to get some relief this weekend.
Okay, sounds like maybe a couple of bumpy days in the meantime.
Probably, yeah. Thanks, Phil.
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Twenty-five hundred students will get their school supplies for the year for free.
That's thanks to a project called S.O.S. That stands for Supply One Student, and it's in its ninth year now.
It's a year-long fundraising effort from the Sioux Falls banquet.
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It's not completely sold out, but it's going to be tough finding a seat this year for some South Dakota Symphony performances.
Symphony officials say some shows are overbooked because they took too many phone calls and walk-in orders.
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Officials say if you don't hear from them at least a week before your concert date, call.
So far, only Saturday night concerts are sold out. Sunday afternoon performances are still available.
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And South Dakota's hunters will see some big changes in the late winter light goose season.
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Welcome back to Dakota First News. We'll start with some bad news for South Dakota's hunters.
There won't be an extended late winter goose hunting season next year.
The reason why is a lawsuit brought on by anti-hunting organizations.
Which is why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has made up an environmental impact statement.
That report won't be finished for at least a year from now.
There will still be a late winter season, but it will end on March 10th.
It won't extend until April 30th like things were for the past year for South Dakota's hunters.
That extension was needed to trim the snow goose population down since they were destroying their habitat in the Arctic.
Yeah, this is disappointing for a lot of hunters.
I know I talked to a number of hunters that really enjoyed this past spring season and myself included.
I went out several times with some folks here from Brookings and we won't be hunting after March 10th until they get this EIS completed.
You know, I'm saying this barring any congressional action.
Most likely won't happen. Now hunters harvested more than 60,000 birds this past winter's late winter season.
Compared to about 13,000 in the fall season.
One other change when hunting snow geese, hunters won't be able to use electronic calls, unplug shotguns or shoot up to a half an hour after sunset.
Those all helped in trimming the population.
Now after this report is made, officials with Game Fish and Parks are optimistic.
The extended season will go back into effect in the year 2001.
Well, the Sioux Falls Canaries wrap up the season's first half tonight when they host Madison at the birdcage.
Next Monday could be a crucial day in the history of the birds and they're hoping they'll hit a home run.
That's when the city council will vote on whether to spend $4.5 million of the city's dollars on major improvements in the stadium,
which would include better seats and addition to sky boxes.
On the first half of the season, the birds averaged about 2,500 fans a game.
Canaries General Manager Ripper Hatch is optimistic the vote will go through on Monday.
I really think it's going to happen because I think it's going to be good for Sioux Falls.
And I think that that's why there's been a lot of positive comments from people.
But we like to hear comments both ways because you don't want to just hear the positive.
You want to hear people's suggestions. You want to hear people call you and tell you what their opinion is.
And we've had a lot of people do that, but most of them have been positive.
If the vote passes, the renovations will start on October 1st and be ready by next season.
While the umpire in Major League Baseball could get pretty bad in the fall,
the umpire's union says 57 of the league's umpires will resign on September 2nd because of a long-running labor disagreement.
Officials on the baseball side hope they can work something out to change this decision.
The WNBA All-Star game is tonight in New York.
Now Rapid City native Becky Hammond won't be playing in the game,
but the rookie out of Colorado State isn't having too bad of a season.
She's averaging 3.3 points a game, playing about 6.7 minutes, and she's played in 12 of the Liberty's games.
Finally, University of Virginia Athletic Director Terry Holland is expected to decide within the next three days
as to whether he'll take the Gophers men's basketball job.
Holland's evidently the Gophers' top candidate.
If he turns it down, the Minneapolis Star Tribune says Evansville head coach Jim Cruz is next on the Gophers' list.
And they've really been pursuing Holland, it sounds like, in a decision within the next couple of days.
Waiting to hear about that. Thanks, Thor.
A local mascot pays for his crime.
We'll find out how Quacky the Duck is working off his sentence when Dakota First News returns.
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Here's a recap of tonight's top story for you.
23-year-old Jared Schwebach is serving a 25-year sentence for killing two teenagers in Brandon.
He was driving drunk that night.
Today, a judge reduced that sentence to 22 years for good behavior in prison.
We know you've been following this story.
Quacky the Duck paid a visit to the birdcage today, but he wasn't enjoying a game.
He was cleaning the cages as part of his community service sentence for a seatbelt violation.
Today, for the first time, he was willing to discuss his case with us.
Along with his community service, his sentence includes adopting out 500 rubber ducks.
And if you'd like to help Quacky out, you can pick up adoption forms at one of these businesses or call 338-D-U-K-K.
Looks like he was doing a pretty good job on Mayor Hanson's office there, too.
Here's a look at weather till 10.
And we're looking at generally partly cloudy conditions.
Temperatures in the 80s, so they're not going to be falling all that much.
And also there's a chance for some widely scattered showers and storms,
seeing a few of those in extreme southeastern South Dakota right now.
But most folks should stay dry over the next few hours.
Thanks for watching Dakota First News at 6.
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