OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Strategic Command issued the following news: NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) - Department of the Air Force leaders and industry partners provided updates on the B-21 Raider, the Air Force's newest bomber, during a panel at the Air and Space Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference, Sept. 18. The B-21 will incrementally replace the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers to become the backbone of the Air Force's flexible global strike capab  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Sept. 14 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary on Sept. 13, 2024: * * * The Basics of Education As I watch my grandchildren grow and learn, I'm reminded of something that I learned as a young parent: our kids are capable of learning far more (and more quickly) than we realize before we see it for ourselves. They watch everything that we do, and their little developing brains absorb it shockingly fast. A two-year-old is capable of looking a  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Sept. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: On September 19, 2024, Ann Sulsberger, 49, from Red Oak, Iowa, was sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. At the plea hearing on April 18, 2024, Sulsberger admitted that between April 2023 and May 2023, she and others conspired to distribute over a pound of methamphetamine in the Woodbury and Monona County areas. Sente  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: RESTON, Va. Low-level airplane flights are planned over the Sioux Falls region of southeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The survey will begin in the fall of 2024, pause over the winter, and resume in the spring or summer of 2025, weather and other restrictions permitting. Flights will  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2024: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Small nonfarm businesses in five Nebraska counties and neighboring counties in South Dakota and Wyoming are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2024: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Small nonfarm businesses in eight South Dakota counties and neighboring counties in Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at  more