george mcgovern

Senator George McGovern accepted the Democrat Presidential nomination in July, 1972.

SIOUX FALLS - A new school in South Dakota's largest city will be named for one of the state's most influential politicians.

Family members of the late Sen. George McGovern say his cremated remains will be buried early next year in a historic Washington, D.C., cemetery.

The late Senator George McGovern's family asked that lieu of flowers, donations be sent to Feeding South Dakota to continue McGovern's legacy of feeding the hungry.

Vice President Joe Biden was one of six featured speakers to eulogize former U.S. Senator George McGovern at a prayer service Thursday evening in Sioux Falls.

Several Sioux Falls Streets will be blocked Thursday and Friday due to Senator George McGovern's funeral.

McGovern, who lost a 1972 presidential bid to Richard M. Nixon, died Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice. He was 90.

George McGovern, a proud liberal who had argued fervently against Vietnam War as a Democratic senator from South Dakota and 1972 candidate for president, McGovern died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at a Sioux Falls hospice, surrounded by family and lifelong friends, family spokesman Steve Hildebrand told The Associated Press...