Eureka News

Allen H. Neuharth, founder of USA Today, the Freedom Forum and the Newseum, died Friday, April 19, 2013, in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

BURKE — Construction season is kicking in across the state. The South Dakota Department of Transportation says a contractor on Monday is beginning a $570,000 rehabilitation of bridges on Highway 44, Highway 47 and Highway 1806 in Gregory County.

Al Neuharth, an American news businessman, author and columnist born in Eureka South Dakota, founded USA Today, one of the nation's most widely circulated newspapers, on September 15, 1982.

Friends and relatives from Al Neuharth's birthplace in Eureka remembered a larger-than-life native son Friday who found his way back home in his later years and drew them into his celebrity orbit in the process.

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