SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The return to power of President-elect Donald Trump may deliver a reprieve for some South Dakotans charged in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Reporting by South Dakota Searchlight reveals that four South Dakotans have pending charges, and one has been sentenced for their roles in the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A potential hit and run has left one woman dead. At about 3:40 this morning emergency crews were dispatched to W Innovation and N Career Ave for a crash. Responders found the woman in the roadway with life threatening injuries. The investigation revealed limited information due to poor w...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Iceman has Cometh. A wintry mix of flurries and sleet has made travel difficult in the KELO listening area. Roads are reportedly slick throughout Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties. Precipitation is expected to taper off by noon today, and winds will be relatively calm. Slippery conditio...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Air travel out of the Sioux Falls Regional Airport is reaching new heights. Airport Executive Director Dan Letellier says airport traffic has increased by 50-percent in the last ten years...and nearly doubled in the last 15 years. The airport's newest addition - the 950-stall parking ram...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Mayor Paul TenHaken asked legislators to avoid "culture war" issues this year, but now the culture war has come to city hall. A number of citizens spoke up during the public comment section of Tuesday night's city council meeting, reading graphic segments of children's books fro...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Senators will play a big role in the 119th Congress. John Thune ascended to the position of Senate Majority Leader. He is the second South Dakotan to hold that position, the first being Tom Daschle from 2001-2004 Mike Rounds has recently been appointed to five committees, i...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It was a justified use of force. Attorney General Marty Jackley announced that two Yankton Police Officers were correct when they shot Andrew Jondahl on December 5th. Jondahl, 40, had been ejected from an event at Yankton High School for being intoxicated. When police arrived, Jondahl was in ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A science teacher at Lower Brule High School in South Dakota is on a two-week professional development adventure taking her to Antarctica. Bree Oatman is one of about 30 teachers chosen by National Geographic to participate in the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship program. People may think the wea...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Absenteeism among South Dakota's Native American students is more than double the state average. A study by South Dakota NewsWatch and the Associated Press shows chronic absenteeism among indigenous students runs at 54-percent. The state average is 21-percent. Officials describe chronic abse...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- 120-miles per hour in a 65 mile an hour zone on I-90. The South Dakota Highway Patrol has a man behind bars for that violation, saying his blood/alcohol level was nearly double the limit. The Patrol says it will conduct sobriety checkpoints in 15 counties during the rest of the month.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it mistakenly shot down one of its own fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early on Sunday, forcing both pilots to eject. Both were rescued, one with minor injuries, after the "apparent case of friendly f...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An uncontained bushfire raging in Australia's Victoria state that has prompted an evacuation order for hundreds of residents will burn for several days, officials said on Sunday. The order to leave immediately, set at the highest...

By Jasper Ward (Reuters) -Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, said on Saturday she has removed her name from consideration to replace outgoing U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. Rubio was picked by Trump to serve as secretary of state. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he will nominate billionaire Houston Rockets pro basketball team owner Tilman Fertitta to be his administration's ambassador to Italy. Fertitta is the chairman and owner of L...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday he had selected the producer of his long-running reality television show, "The Apprentice," to be his administration's special envoy to the United Kingdom. Mark Burnett, 64, ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China criticised new U.S. military aid to Taiwan on Sunday, saying the $571 million package seriously violates the "one China principle" and provisions of joint communiques between China and the U.S. China will take "all necessa...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it mistakenly shot down one of its own fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early on Sunday, forcing both pilots to eject. Both were rescued, one with minor injuries, after the "apparent case of friendly f...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Six people were killed and others injured in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza, the civil emergency service reported on Sunday. (Reporting by Ali Sawafta; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)

By Gram Slattery WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday accused Panama of charging excessive rates for use of the Panama Canal and said that if Panama did not manage the canal in an acceptable fashion, he woul...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will do "whatever it takes" to ensure its security if the new Syrian administration cannot address Ankara's concerns about U.S.-allied Kurdish groups it views as terrorist groups, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Satur...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Are you ready for some football? One local entrepreneur is ready, too! Sioux Falls native Gio Oromo is mixing his love of sports history with his business mind. Oromo, a Senior Marketing major at USD has opened his business "Cosy Thrifts". He specializes in sports merchandise l...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Augustana University's hockey team is getting a one-year jump on conference membership. Central Collegiate Hockey Association Commissioner Don Lucia says Augie's support of its hockey program is impressive, and allowing them to compete in the regular season and conference championship is ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Ryan Zimmerman carried a perfect game into the eighth inning on Wednesday and Josh Rehwaldt drove in four as the Canaries topped Gary SouthShore 9-1 at the Bird Cage Wednesday night. Rehwaldt belted a 429-foot homerun in the sixth inning to open the scoring and added a two-run double in t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Canaries are riding a three-game win streak after beating the Lincoln Saltdogs 6-to-2. Josh Rehwaldt smacked a 475-foot homer and Trevor Achenbach drove in two runs. It was also Mike Meyer's 300th career win as Canaries manager. The number one Canaries will continue thei...

LONGWOOD, FL (KELO.com) -- It's do or die for the Augustana University softball squad in the NCAA Division Two National Finals. They dropped a two-to-one decision to second-seeded University of Texas, Tyler yesterday in extra innings. The Vikings have a chance to pull it together with a day off today in the double-el...

(Reuters) - Starbucks workers have expanded their strike to four more U.S. cities, including New York, the union representing over 10,000 baristas said late on Saturday. The five-day strike, which began on Friday and initially closed Starbucks cafe...

(Reuters) -Stellantis has reversed its decision to lay off about 1,100 employees at an Ohio Jeep plant less than three weeks after the abrupt resignation of Chief Executive Carlos Tavares, the Franco-Italian automaker said late on Saturday. The company...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle (EV) marker Nio on Sunday announced plans to launch its Firefly cars in Europe in the first half of 2025. William Li, CEO of Nio, said the company will work with local partners on the sale and service of...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron expressed full support on Saturday for Ethiopia's debt restructuring efforts, emphasising the need for a swift resolution "in the coming weeks". The backing from Macron, who is visiting Ethio...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum expects Congress to approve a ban early next year on planting genetically modified corn in the country, she said on Saturday. Sheinbaum's announcement comes a day after a trade-dispute pan...

Naloxone is an over-the-counter nasal-spray medication that can save an overdose victim by rapidly reversing the effects of fentanyl, heroin and other opioids. Doctors urge all people - especially those with prescription opioids at home or a substance ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Novo Nordisk's drug for the prevention or reduction of bleeding episodes in patients with a type of blood-related disorder called hemophilia A, the agency said on Friday. (Reporting by...

By Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals' next-generation treatment for a rare and progressive genetic disease, the company said on Friday, expanding its dominance in the market for cystic fi...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Eli Lilly's weight-loss treatment, Zepbound, for obstructive sleep apnea, making it the first drug greenlighted to directly treat patients with the common sleeping disorder. The regula...

By Blake Brittain Japanese drugmaker Nippon Shinyaku infringed a Sarepta patent related to its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug Vyondys 53 and must pay $115.2 million in damages, a Delaware jury said on Friday. The jury also rejected competing pa...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing's rapidly expandin...

LIMA (Reuters) - An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to Peru's Amazon, according to Conservation International. Scientists also discovered a spiny m...

(Reuters) - NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's return to Earth will be further delayed until at least late March, the agency said, taking what should have been an eight-day stay on the International Space Station to more than nine mo...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a "living fossil" is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat. The Calyptocephallela gayi, or Helme...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Space One said it terminated the flight of its Kairos small rocket after launch on Wednesday, aborting its second bid to become the country's first company to deliver a satellite to the Earth's orbit. The rocket ended the ...

TIRANA (Reuters) - Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the influence of social media on children. The ban, part of a broader plan...

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google proposed on Friday a loosening of its agreements with Apple and others to set Google as the default search engine on new devices to address a U.S. ruling that it unlawfully dominates online search. The pr...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platform Inc's WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, ...

(Reuters) - Video sharing platform and cloud services provider Rumble said on Friday it has entered into an agreement with Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform, to receive a strategic investment of $775 million. Shares of the Toronto-based company...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swedish electric-vehicle battery maker Northvolt said on Friday it expects to line up additional bankruptcy financing by late January after engaging with over 100 lenders and potential investors. Northvolt entered bankruptcy on...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA and Netflix have signed a deal to broadcast the 2027 and 2031 editions of the Women's World Cup in the United States, world soccer's governing body said on Friday. FIFA said the Women's World Cup will be the first competit...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver has made her West End debut as the magician Prospero in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and said she was glad she had taken on the role. The 75-year-old actor, kn...

By Danielle Broadway SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Director Barry Jenkins believes it was important to revisit the Disney classic "The Lion King" with the prequel "Mufasa: The Lion King" for audiences to understand that the protagonist lion Mufasa was neve...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Timothee Chalamet likened his journey to playing music legend Bob Dylan to an athletic feat. It turned into a marathon that stretched longer than the actor had expected. Chalamet signed up to play Dylan in 2...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The script for the biblical epic "Mary," which tells the story of the Nativity from the perspective of Mary of Nazareth, languished in Hollywood for some 15 years before entering product...