Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police say a 66-year-old local man is the victim of an online fraud that has cost him 67-thousand dollars. The victim has cancer and was in contact with a woman on a messaging app. Police Information Officer, Sgt. Aaron Benson says the woman told the victim he would be receivin...

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- You get the rare chance to turn a 20-dollar bill into a hundred tomorrow. The Salvation Army Red Kettle Bell Drive has become a key part of the ministry's fundraising efforts for the past 15 years. Board member John Mogen says community members are matching donations tomorrow. Mogen says o...

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- Grab some extra blankets and put on extra layers if you're headed outdoors this weekend. Another Alberta clipper is headed our way with several inches of snow and bitterly cold temperatures. The high tomorrow is expected to stay in the single-digit range, with tomorrow night's low expected...

South Dakota (KELO.com) -- Lottery fever is setting in again, as the Powerball Jackpot rises above the one-billion-dollar mark for tomorrow night's drawing. It's been more than three months since someone took home the Powerball grand prize.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- An anonymous donor is covering the cost of student lunches at Madison elementary school. The 15-thousand dollar gift buys lunch for all 525 students for the entire week. Madison's principal says the donation was made by a local business owner.

Madison, SD (KELO.com) -- Another group of new teachers just received their diplomas, thanks to the South Dakota Teacher Apprenticeship Pathway. The program allows paraprofessionals to earn their teaching degrees while still working in their local school system. 15 students graduated from Dakota State University Saturd...

South Dakota, (KELO.com) -- South Dakota is set to produce unmanned combat aircraft weapons, after a company was awarded a 35-million-dollar defense contract. The Dakota Scout was given exclusive media access to a meeting featuring state, local and federal officials. MMS Product, Inc. is developing weapons systems that...

Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's new Office of Indigent Legal Services is just getting off the ground, but timing may be a problem. The Office is handling a limited number of cases, mainly for criminal appeals, abuse and neglect. Supporters would like to see the service grow, but Chair Neil Fulton says with this...

Beresford, SD (KELO.com) -- A Beresford area cattle producer says a Missouri man and his companies swindled him out of millions of dollars' worth of livestock and beef. The Dakota Scout reports Joseph Schumacher is suing Brian Lillie and Best Beef Holdings, for failing to pay Schumacher for Wagyu beef valued at more th...

Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- Governor Larry Rhoden's budget proposal did not include an increase in state funding for schools. His 'hold the line' approach in a tight budget year is generating plenty of disappointment. Some representatives suggested one-time funds that could help this year. However, Representative Tim Reis...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. ‍Food and Drug Administration has ‌no ‌plans to put a "black box" warning ​on ‍COVID-19 ​vaccines, ​Bloomberg News ‍reported on Monday, citing ‍the agency's top official ‍Marty ‍Makary. (Reporting ​by ​Mariam ⁠Sunny ‌in Ben...

By Rich McKay and Helen Coster Dec 15 (Reuters) - One student dreamt of becoming a neurosurgeon after surviving brain surgery as a child. The other was hailed by friends at an ice cream shop where she worked as destined for greatness. Both had earned ‍...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said ‍on Monday it plans to open a new aviation safety office as part ‌of a ‌strategic plan to improve hiring, training and proactively identify hazards before incidents ​occur. FAA Adm...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - President ‍Donald Trump said on ‌Monday ‌he is considering signing an executive order ​to ‍reclassify ​marijuana as ​a ‍less dangerous drug. "We are looking at ‍that very strongly," ‍Trump ‍told ​reporters in ​the ⁠Oval ‌...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President ‍Donald Trump said on Monday that he ‌would likely ‌soon file a lawsuit against Britain's BBC over ​a report on ‍his ​comments in ​the lead-up ‍to the January 6, 2021, attack on ‍the U.S. Capitol. Trump sai...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Venezuela's President Nicolas ‍Maduro is welcome to come to Belarus should he leave office, but no such discussions had ‌been held with Maduro, ‌according to quotes from an interview wit...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Director Rob Reiner struggled with how to end a movie that was inspired by his son Nick's years-long battle with heroin addiction and the impact of his substance abuse on the ‍family. On the day the fina...

BERLIN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - European leaders said they had agreed on Monday any decisions on potential Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia could ‍only be made once robust security guarantees were in place which should include a European-led mult...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The ‍United States and ‌Mexico ‌signed a new agreement aimed ​at ‍addressing ​the Tijuana ​River ‍sewage crisis, the U.S. Environmental ‍Protection Agency said ‍Monday ‍in ​a ​statement. (Reporting ⁠by Ryan ‌Jones, writing by Chris...

LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Britain must get better prepared to deter the threat of conflict, particularly from Russia, by encouraging people to be willing to fight, increasing industrial weapons capacity and developing skills, the ‍country's military c...

Brookings, SD (KELO.com) -- Big news for South Dakota State women's volleyball! The team has been so successful that, despite their tournament loss, they've been invited to play in the NCAA tournament. The Jacks will face the Arizona Wildcats Friday at in California.

South Dakota (KELO.com) -- The USD Coyotes scored a thrilling five-overtime win over the weekend, downing Southern Illinois 53-51, ending the regular season on a high note. At the same time, the SDSU Jackrabbits lost their fourth in a row, falling to Illinois State 35-21. The Jacks finish their season next weekend agai...

The Sioux Falls Curling Club is celebrating their first national championship and Gold Medal! Despite being seeded number 12, Sioux Falls bested Dallas-Fort Worth six-two in the final matchup over the weekend. Sioux Falls is gearing up to host the U.S Olympic Curling Team Trials next month with hopes to spotlight the c...

Banana Ball is coming to the Bird Cage next year. Sioux Falls Stadium will host a three game series featuring the Savannah Bananas and the Indianapolis Clowns next August. Tickets can only be secured through a lottery list, which must be entered by the end of the month on the Banana Ball website.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Canaries are just one game away from a league championship. A 12-strikeout performance by pitcher Ryan Zimmerman led them to a 5-3 win over Kane County at the Bird Cage last night. Game four is tonight, with the Canaries leading the best of five series two games to one.

SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Australia's consumer sentiment slid ‍in December after turning positive for the first time the ‌previous month, ‌as households grappled with renewed angst over inflation and the ​interest rate outlook, a ‍private ​survey show...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Payments firm PayPal said on Monday it has applied to establish a bank in the United States, as companies rush to capitalize on ‍a friendly regulatory environment under the Trump administration. The San Jose, California-based company...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Embattled casino operator Star Entertainment said on Tuesday that Steve McCann, the ‍group's chief executive officer and managing director, will be leaving the company effective immediately. McCann will be leaving Star after navigati...

ORLANDO, Florida, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Caution weighed on Wall Street on Monday as investors awaited Tuesday's U.S. jobs report, while underlying selling pressure and uncertainty over who will be nominated to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell e...

BUENOS AIRES, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Argentina's central bank announced a new monetary framework on Monday, tying the peso's trading band to inflation in a bid to build reserves and stabilize ‍the economy. The measures, effective January 1, are part of a b...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. ‍Food and Drug Administration has ‌no ‌plans to put a "black box" warning ​on ‍COVID-19 ​vaccines, ​Bloomberg News ‍reported on Monday, citing ‍the agency's top official ‍Marty ‍Makary. (Reporting ​by ​Mariam ⁠Sunny ‌in Ben...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - President ‍Donald Trump said on ‌Monday ‌he is considering signing an executive order ​to ‍reclassify ​marijuana as ​a ‍less dangerous drug. "We are looking at ‍that very strongly," ‍Trump ‍told ​reporters in ​the ⁠Oval ‌...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to four major retailers for continuing to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial ‍illness in infants, even after the products were recalled, the h...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. ‍Food and Drug Administration ‌has ‌approved Daiichi Sankyo's therapy in combination with ​Roche's drug ‍for ​the first-line ​treatment ‍of patients with a type of ‍breast cancer, the ‍regulator ‍said ​on Monday. (Reportin...

PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - France said on Monday the lumpy skin disease affecting cattle is under control in the country even as farmers ‍continue a second week of protests against the government's handling of the virus by blocking highways with tractor...

ROME, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process ‍into 'pastries' with high nutritional content. Italy's rich culinary tradit...

By Joey Roulette, Ross Kerber and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to reach Mars with growing the revenue-rich Starlink s...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' aerospace firm Blue Origin has been working for over a year on the necessary technology for artificial intelligence data centers ‍in space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the ...

By Will Dunham Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago - revealing that this milest...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Chinese astronauts have installed protection against "space junk" aboard the permanently inhabited station Tiangong, according to China's manned spaceflight authorities, a ‍month after a docked vessel was...

NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nasdaq, one of the world's largest exchanges that is home to tech companies Nvidia, Apple and Amazon, is planning to submit paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to roll out round-the-clock tr...

By Milana Vinn Dec 15 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs is restructuring its influential technology, media, and telecom (TMT) investment banking group with an eye toward infrastructure deals and artificial ‍intelligence, creating two new teams with new leaders...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Germany's lower house of ‍parliament suffered a major email outage on Monday in ‌what officials ‌suspect was a cyberattack during high-stakes U.S.-Ukraine talks hosted by ​Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the ‍Financial ​Times reported ​on...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk on Monday became the first person ever worth $600 billion, Forbes said, on the heels of ‍reports that his SpaceX startup was likely to go public at a valuation of $800 billion. Musk, who was the first to surpass $500 billio...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - OpenAI on Monday confirmed that it has appointed Albert Lee, senior director of corporate development at Google, ‍as its vice president of corporate development. Lee will start his role at Microsoft-backed OpenAI on Tuesday and repor...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nick Reiner, 32, ‍was arrested on Sunday evening and was ‌being held ‌on $4 million bail, booking information from the Los Angeles ​Sheriff's Office showed. The ‍arrest ​comes as ​police continued their ‍investigation aft...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Netflix's decision to acquire assets from Warner Bros Discovery has not changed, its co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos said ‍in a letter to employees on Monday. The streaming giant won Warner Bros' vote earlier this month, securin...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A decade after making his feature film debut with acclaimed drama "Masaan", Indian director Neeraj Ghaywan returns with a second movie that seeks to give a voice to ‍people who feel invisible. Based on true e...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Get ready to head back to the wasteland of the Mojave Desert. "Fallout" star Walton Goggins is teasing that the show's second season will heavily channel the ‍spirit of "Fallout: New Vegas", the vide...

PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - American pop superstar Mariah Carey will be the ‍first major music act in the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, organisers said in a ‌statement on Monday. Carey will ‌perform at Milan's San Siro Stad...