A committee of South Dakota lawmakers voted 4-3 to endorse a bill Thursday in Pierre that would require public school districts to teach the Ten Commandments and display them in every classroom. The vote came after an hour of testimony that included opposition from public school groups.

Washington State athletic director Anne McCoy presents new head football coach Jimmy Rogers a jersey during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at Gesa Field in Pullman, Wash. (Geoff Crimmins/For The Spokesman-Review)

South Dakota won a share of its first Missouri Valley Football Conference championship and played in its first FCS semifinal in 2024.

As the roster overhaul continues under new coach Jimmy Rogers, Washington State football picked up five new high school commits on Wednesday.

CS Bakersfield at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10 p.m. Idaho St. at Sacramento St., 10 p.m. Long Beach St. at CS Northridge, 10 p.m. Loyola Marymount at Pacific, 10 p.m. San Diego at Portland, 10 p.m. UC Irvine at UC Riverside, 10 p.m. UC Santa Barbara at UC San Diego, 10 p.m. Weber St. at Portland St., 10 p.m.

They are linebacker Sullivan Schlimgen, athlete Erimus Wright, kicker/punter Adlai Lounsbury, and offensive linemen Trevor Bindel and Dylan Hildebrand. The last two are Rogers’ first prep recruits who were not previously committed to SDSU.

North Dakota hosts the South Dakota Coyotes after Mier Panoam scored 21 points in North Dakota's 76-72 win over the UMKC Kangaroos.

The narrative is shifting away from Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana as the home of football champions, and to midwest states. There was a time when when people thought of great football, their minds immediately went to the south.

Kristi Noem, the firebrand South Dakota governor, is set to go before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs for her confirmation hearing to be the Secretary of Homeland Security.

The bipartisan Trust in Congress Act prohibits members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks during their time in office.

Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota, is being questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

This rule would allow the EPA to tax West Virginia carbon fuel producers in an illegal way, according to the Attorney General