Local News
South Dakota's first "Medal of Honor Recognition Day"
HARTFORD, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota just celebrated its first "Medal of Honor Recognition Day". The working holiday was approved by this year's legislature, making South Dakota one of the few states that observes the day. Tom Rooney introduces us to Michael Fitzmaurice of Hartford...the lone remaining C...
Mar 26, 2024
Brookings Chamber partners with SDSU on "Work Ready Boot Camp"
BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- They call it a Work Ready Boot camp. The idea is to encourage SDSU students to pursue a career in Brookings. Brookings Chamber CEO Kelsey Doom says it's been in the works for the last few years. Doom calls the boot camp a partnership between Brookings businesses and SDSU. The bootcamp feat...
Mar 26, 2024
Sioux Falls police make arrests in two recent robberies
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Two arrests in a pair of Sioux Falls robbery investigations. A Richfield, Minnesota man is being held on a 100-thousand dollar cash bond for robbing a Sioux Falls bank last Friday. In the other heist, a former convenience store clerk is now accused of robbing her former employer at gunpo...
Mar 25, 2024
Bank robbery in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A bank robbery in Sioux Falls. On Friday morning a man walked into the US Bank location at 5501 West 41st street, threatened the clerk and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect was described as a black man, around 5'10" tall, wearing a tan jacket, a mask and sunglasse...
Mar 23, 2024
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Thune defends Israel
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- As the war rages on in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, some in the US Senate are calling for a cease-fire. Others want Israel to call for new elections. Senator John Thune believes that US support for Israel should be unwavering. Thune was part of a conference call with Israeli Prime Minis...
Mar 23, 2024
State News
South Dakota's first "Medal of Honor Recognition Day"
HARTFORD, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota just celebrated its first "Medal of Honor Recognition Day". The working holiday was approved by this year's legislature, making South Dakota one of the few states that observes the day. Tom Rooney introduces us to Michael Fitzmaurice of Hartford...the lone remaining C...
Mar 26, 2024
Carbon capture pipeline opponents ready to roll with petition drive
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota Property Rights and Local Control Alliance will be holding a rally today at the Capitol Rotunda right after the 2024 Legislative Session gavels out. The group, made up mostly of property owners, is opposed to the recently signed SB 201, which supporters called the property ow...
Mar 26, 2024
Hockey comes to Watertown
WATERTOWN, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Minor League hockey is coming to Watertown! The North American Hockey League has approved the membership application for Watertown's team, which will be known as the Shamrocks. The Watertown Shamrocks will compete in the Central Division beginning in the 2024-25 season. The Shamrocks will ...
Mar 16, 2024
Texas ranchers get help from South Dakota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Help is on the way from South Dakota. The Akaska Development Corporation is coordinating the transportation to get hay and feed donations from South Dakota to cattle producers in Texas devastated by recent wildfires. Texas Rancher Billy Hall says they're doing what they can to manage the...
Mar 16, 2024
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Minimum teacher pay becomes law
MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- An important step in climbing out of the basement on teacher pay. Governor Kristi Noem has signed a bill that sets a minimum base pay for teachers of 45-thousand dollars. House Education Committee Chairman Mike Stevens says it's about more than the money. Governor Noem says the legislation ...
Mar 14, 2024
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National News
UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% in 2023, government data shows
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5.4% in 2023 partly due to lower gas use in the electricity sector, provisional government data showed on Thursday. Britain has a target to reach net zero emissions b...
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In Iraq, water crisis leaves farmers clinging to sidr trees
By Mohammed Aty BASRA (Reuters) - Faced with a failing date palm business due to scarce resources, Iraqi farmer Ismail Ibrahim has planted "sidr", or jujube, trees which require far less water during an irrigation crisis. Iraq is part of the "Ferti...
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Biden's campaign war chest exceeds Trump's before major fundraising event
By Stephanie Kelly and Moira Warburton NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's campaign has pulled in more money ahead of November's election than that of his Republican rival Donald Trump, which analysts attribute to Biden's incumbent stat...
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Lawsuits over Baltimore bridge collapse likely, though limited, lawyers say
By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) - The owner, operator and charterer of the container ship that struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday are likely to face lawsuits over its collapse and the people killed or injured, but legal experts s...
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Biden administration cracks down on so-called junk insurance
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday will finalize a rule aimed at cracking down on short-term health insurance plans and surprise medical bills, the latest steps in its effort to lower consumer costs across a broad r...
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World News
Will Russia exchange Gershkovich? Kremlin says: silence is needed
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Thursday that complete silence was needed when it came to discussions about possible prisoner exchanges involving Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia almost a year ago on suspic...
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UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% in 2023, government data shows
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5.4% in 2023 partly due to lower gas use in the electricity sector, provisional government data showed on Thursday. Britain has a target to reach net zero emissions b...
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Obama, Bill Clinton to join Biden to raise $25 million at event with Queen Latifah and Lizzo
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will get a boost from Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday at a fundraiser in New York slated to raise more than $25 million and add some oomph to Biden's 2024 re...
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Ukraine foreign minister visits India to build support for peace blueprint
(Reuters) - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he had arrived in New Delhi on Thursday to advance Kyiv's vision of the path to peace in Ukraine and to strengthen ties with India. "Building on the dialogue between (Ukrainian President Vol...
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Poland says breakthrough on Ukrainian grain unlikely in Warsaw talks
WARSAW (Reuters) - The governments of Poland and Ukraine meet in Warsaw on Thursday for talks they hope will help defuse a row over grain imports that has caused mass protests by farmers, but a top Polish official said a breakthrough was unlikely. ...
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Sports
Two of SDSU's leading players moving on
BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- It appears as though South Dakota State University will have some rebuilding to do before the 2024-25 basketball season. Two of its leading players are entering the NCAA transfer portal. William Kyle the Third was the first to announce he would enter the portal. Now, Zeke Mayo is declarin...
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Milbank native, former USF standout new coach at Alabama
TUSCALOOSA, AL (KELO.com) -- A Milbank native now holds the reigns of one of college football's premiere programs. Kalen DeBoer has succeeded Nick Saban as coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide A record-setting receiver at the University of Sioux Falls, DeBoer became head coach of the Cougars in 2005. Over the next five se...
Jan 13, 2024
A big game and a bobblehead to boot
A little extra bling to go with a rematch from last year's football championship game...that is, if you consider a bobblehead bling. SDSU and NDSU squ...
Nov 03, 2023
Pheasant opener gives big boost to local economy
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- With the opening of this year's pheasant season hunters from all over the country will be flocking to South Dakota. St...
Oct 21, 2023
Holocaust survivor to share story of survival and triumph
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- He'll soon be 101 years old, and he carries a story of survival and triumph. Joseph Alexander will share his story at th...
Oct 05, 2023
Business News
Sri Lanka's key inflation rate falls to 0.9% in March
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's key inflation rate fell to 0.9% year-on-year in March from 5.9% in February, the statistics department said on Thursday. The Colombo Consumer Price Index, a leading indicator for broader national...
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Analysis-Zambia's debt-rework battle scars mar its Common Framework success
By Libby George LONDON (Reuters) - Zambia's deal with bondholders this week suggests it will finally emerge from more than three years in default -- and become the first successful restructuring under the debt-rework architecture designed by the G2...
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Exclusive-SIX Group CEO rules out Allfunds bid amid M&A hunt
By Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro LONDON (Reuters) -SIX Group has ruled out making a bid for fund distribution group Allfunds after studying an acquisition, and will instead consider other deals that can expand its data business or give it access to new asset cl...
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US cryptocurrency ETF inflows pick up as bitcoin price recovers
By Suzanne McGee and Hannah Lang (Reuters) - Inflows into the nine recently launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to bitcoin have resumed their upward trajectory this week after the cryptocurrency's price bounced back from its dip last week. "...
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How the US stock market rocketed through the first quarter
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. stock market is off to a soaring start in 2024, as optimism over the economy and interest rate cuts has combined with exuberance about the business opportunity in artificial intelligence to stir up a...
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Health News
European regulators close in on Big Tobacco's new tea sticks
By Emma Rumney LONDON (Reuters) - European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers' new zero-tobacco heat sticks, moving to close the loopholes they were designed to exploit just months after their launch. Big...
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U.S. FDA approves Akebia's anemia drug
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Akebia Therapeutics' drug to treat anemia caused by chronic kidney disease in dialysis patients, the drugmaker said on Wednesday. (Reporting by Pratik Jain, Vaibhav Sadhamta and Mrinmay De...
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UnitedHealth Group has paid over $3.3 billion to care providers hit by cyberattacks
(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group said on Wednesday that it had advanced more than $3.3 billion so far to care providers impacted by the Change Healthcare cyberattacks. (Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
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J&J gets new opportunity to contest evidence linking talc to cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will get a new chance to contest the scientific evidence linking talc products to ovarian cancer, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, potentially disrupting a federal court case that consolidates 53,000 lawsui...
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Moderna secures $750 million from Blackstone Life Sciences to develop flu shots
(Reuters) -Moderna said on Wednesday it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Blackstone's life science investment platform for a funding of $750 million to develop its mRNA flu vaccines. The biotech firm has been developing multiple v...
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Science News
A million solar eclipse enthusiasts expected at Niagara Falls
By Wa Lone and Nivedita Balu NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (Reuters) - From vintage train rides costing almost $4,000 per person to hotel rooms listed at $1,600 a night, businesses in and around majestic Niagara Falls are preparing to cash in on the April...
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Scientists chronicle the earliest stages of a supernova
By Ari Rabinovitch REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) - About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded and sent elements representing the building blocks of life racing through space. About a year ago, by chance, as the light...
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Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers on Wednesday announced that they have detected a strong and organized magnetic field twisted in a spiral pattern around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing previously unknown qualitie...
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Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over from chimpanzees. And many experts believe th...
Mar 26, 2024
Send robots into space rather than people, says Britain's Astronomer Royal
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when robots could do the job just as effectively was a waste of public money, and space exploration should be left to billionaires and those willing to pay for...
Mar 26, 2024
Technology News
US cryptocurrency ETF inflows pick up as bitcoin price recovers
By Suzanne McGee and Hannah Lang (Reuters) - Inflows into the nine recently launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to bitcoin have resumed their upward trajectory this week after the cryptocurrency's price bounced back from its dip last week. "...
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US requiring new AI safeguards for government use, transparency
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - The White House said Thursday it is requiring federal agencies using artificial intelligence to adopt "concrete safeguards" by Dec. 1 to protect Americans' rights and ensure safety as the government expands AI use in...
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Keysight agrees to buy Britain's Spirent for $1.5 billion
(Reuters) - U.S.-based Keysight Technologies will buy Spirent Communications in an all-cash deal, valuing the British telecommunications testing firm at 1.16 billion pounds ($1.46 billion), both companies said in a joint statement on Thursday. Spir...
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Exclusive-China's WuXi AppTec shared US client's data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators
By Michael Martina, Michael Erman and Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials in late February told senators working on a biotech security bill that Chinese pharmaceutical firm WuXi AppTec had transferred U.S. intellectual property t...
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Take-Two Interactive to acquire Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment from Embracer
(Reuters) - Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software said late on Wednesday it has come to an agreement to acquire U.S. game developer Gearbox Entertainment from Sweden's Embracer, with the transaction valued at $460 million. (Reporting ...
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Entertainment News
'The Batman,' a 2022 blockbuster, wasn't plagiarized, US judge rules
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Bros Entertainment didn't steal the plot for its 2022 blockbuster "The Batman" from a writer who created a story about the caped crusader three decades earlier, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on W...
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Spice Girl Mel B shares more in expanded memoir, aims to help abuse survivors
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spice Girl Mel B is releasing an expanded version of her 2018 memoir, sharing more details about her personal life which she hopes will help survivors of domestic abuse. The British singer and television person...
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer says rapper subject to 'witch hunt'
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs said Tuesday the rapper was being targeted by a "witch hunt" after civil lawsuits accused him of sexual misconduct and federal authorities raided two of his proper...
Mar 27, 2024
'Civil War' movie set in near-future US poses questions about politics and journalism
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Filmmaker Alex Garland wants "Civil War", a tense thriller about a group of journalists documenting societal collapse as they chase a scoop in a conflict-torn United States, to be a conversation starter. Set in t...
Mar 26, 2024
Jane Goodall's 90th birthday wish? More time to get out the conservation message
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - British primatologist-turned-conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall will mark her 90th birthday next month with a series of talks. Her greatest wish is for people to start thinking more about the environment, she sai...
Mar 26, 2024