For 12 years he led the Diocese of Rapid City now new challenges await him in Spokane.  Bishop Blase Cupich will be installed as the sixth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, leading an office that has been financially battered by the priest sex abuse scandal. 

You may have seen folks around town Thursday afternoon sporting orange t-shirts with the phrase "Live United".  It's promoting an annual event through United Way where volunteers unite and cover the city doing what needs to be done to make life a little easier for those needing help. 

Promoters say there may be more than twice as many Mustangs in Sturgis this coming weekend as there were last year.  The annual Mustang rally in Sturgis is seeing explosive growth according to the organizers.  Around eight hundred Mustangs are expected in the next several days. 

The military says a chaplain who died in Afghanistan is the first Army clergyperson killed in action since the Vietnam War.  Capt. Dale Goetz from White, South Dakota was among five soldiers killed by an improvised bomb on Monday.

Two of the riders involved in a two motorcycle accident Wednesday morning on Highway 16 were still listed in critical condition at Rapid City Regional Hospital Thursday afternoon.

The superintendent of Rapid City Area Schools says the district is seeing a big influx of kindergartners this year.  Dr. Timothy Mitchell says the kindergarten classes in North Rapid City are beyond capacity so the district had to add two full-time equivalent teachers to that grade level.

The South Dakota National Guard's 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade out of Sioux Falls is deployed in Kabul, Afghanistan these days.  The Unit provides basic services for nearly 9,000 coalition troops in the 11 bases that make up the Kabul Base Cluster.