Local News
Minnehaha County jury convicts inmate of assaulting correctional officer
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A South Dakota Penitentiary inmate is guilty of threatening a correctional officer. Attorney General Marty Jackley says 31-year old Roland Miner was also convicted this week of possessing a weapon in the prison. The convictions are related to an incident that took place in the prison in ...
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Man gets 90 years for the death of his son
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A 90 year prison term. Dylan Castimore heard those words from a Minnehaha County judge today, as he was sentenced for killing his infant son. Castimore pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse and one count of first-degree manslaughter in the 2021 death of his son Daxton.
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Mayor TenHaken delivers upbeat message in State of the City - with a word of caution
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A long list of accomplishments and a bright, but challenging future. Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken hosted his State of the City address at the Convention Center this morning. Among the challenges, sales tax revenues running behind expectations that are creating a difficult budgeting pr...
Apr 18, 2024
More family space for Bishop Dudley House program
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a three and a half million dollar fundraising drive aimed at emergency housing for families. The Bishop Dudley Hospitality House already houses up to 100 individuals in its downtown Sioux Falls center. Now, through a partnership with Interlakes Community Action, it will be able to s...
Apr 18, 2024
Sioux Falls sales tax revenues lower than projected; budget reserves grow anyway
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Budget reserves for the city of Sioux Falls are growing, even though sales tax collections are running behind expectations. City Councilors received the 2023 year-end financial report last night. Reserves grew to 86-million dollars, even with sales tax growth coming in at 3-percent - tha...
Apr 17, 2024
State News
Legislature to look at ways to prepare for Ellsworth AFB expansion
BOX ELDER, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota legislators have caught their breath and are looking ahead to next year. As they do, committees will study Artificial Intelligence, protecting youth from harmful aspects of the internet, and property tax assessment procedures. Senate Majority Leader Casey Crabtree says another...
Apr 17, 2024
Tribes inquiring about tribal law officer training
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Still no word on whether South Dakota Tribes will accept the state's offer to training tribal law officers - but the offer stands. Governor Noem's office has worked to provide the funding needed to train up to 48 officers. Attorney General Marty Jackley's office says at least a few of the sta...
Apr 15, 2024
Bird flu spreading, but no human cases in South Dakota
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The spring migration is at its peak - and that means increased risk of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, commonly called bird flu. South Dakota reported its first case involving a dairy herd late last week, becoming the eighth state with cases involving dairy cows. State Health Secretary Mel...
Apr 15, 2024
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Rules committee holds off on GFP plan to issue more non-resident waterfowl licenses
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A South Dakota Legislative committee tapped the brakes today on plans to allow more non-resident waterfowl licenses to be issued next fall.The prairie pothole region in the northeastern part of the state is viewed as some of the best waterfowl hunting area in the nation, and that's where the co...
Apr 15, 2024
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Homicide in Custer ends with multi-state pursuit
CUSTER, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A Friday night homicide in Custer ends with the suspect's suicide in Colorado. The Custer County Sheriff's Office Friday night responded to a report of a homicide at a home west of Custer on U.S. Highway 16. Officers found a deceased adult male. An adult female, who also was assaulted, had dr...
Apr 13, 2024
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National News
Swiss environment minister plays down impact of European climate ruling
VIENNA (Reuters) - A European Court of Human Rights ruling last week that Switzerland has failed to protect its people from climate change is hard to reconcile with direct democracy, the Swiss environment minister said in a newspaper interview, app...
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Poland to get $266 million from World Bank for Clean Air program, finance minister says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has signed a 250-million-euro ($266.35 million) agreement with the World Bank to help finance its Clean Air programme, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said late on Friday. "With the president of the World Bank, Ajay Bang...
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US Senate has agreement on FISA reauthorization, will vote on Friday night, Schumer says
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate has reached an agreement to approve the reauthorization of a controversial surveillance program and plans to vote on it on Friday night, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. If the Senate ...
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USC scraps outside speakers at commencement after canceling Muslim student's speech
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The University of Southern California announced there will be no outside speakers and honorees at this year's main commencement ceremony after canceling its valedictorian speech from a Muslim student who said she was s...
8h ago
Climate targets group's CEO seeks to ease concerns over carbon offset plan
(Reuters) - The CEO of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) on Friday sought to reassure critics' concerns over the global nonprofit's plan to allow companies to use carbon credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their value chain. L...
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World News
UK minister writes to London police over 'openly Jewish' comment
LONDON (Reuters) - British interior minister James Cleverly has written to London's Metropolitan Police after an officer stopped a man who was wearing a traditional kippah cap from crossing a road during a pro-Palestinian march on the grounds he wa...
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Russia's Kurgan orders evacuation in some districts as floodwaters rise
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities in the region of Kurgan in Russia's Urals mountains ordered an evacuation from several districts on Saturday due to rising river levels, after large snowfalls melted and heavy rain fell on ground already waterlogged b...
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Olympics-WADA confirms 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive before Tokyo Games, accepted contamination finding
(Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirmed reports on Saturday that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for a banned drug ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but it accepted the country's findings it was due to substance contaminat...
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Russia's Smolensk governor says Ukrainian drone sets fuel depot ablaze
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The governor of Russia's western region of Smolensk said on Saturday that a Ukrainian drone hit a fuel depot overnight, setting it on fire, while an attack on the regional centre has been repelled. Ukraine has stepped up its atta...
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Taiwan president congratulates Taiwanese queen for winning Drag Race
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday offered her congratulations to the Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind for winning RuPaul's Drag Race, the first person from East Asia to take the crown. Tsai and her ruling Democratic Prog...
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Business News
Central banks of Turkey, Brazil sign cooperation deal
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank said on Saturday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazil's central bank to lay groundwork for enhanced cooperation. The memorandum was signed by the governors of the banks in Washington on Fr...
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Tesla cuts US prices of Models Y, X, S by $2,000
By Nilutpal Timsina (Reuters) - Tesla cut the U.S. prices of its Model Y, Model X and Model S vehicles by $2,000 each on Friday, days after the first-quarter deliveries of the world's most valuable automaker missed market expectations. Elon Musk's ...
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China's March germanium, gallium exports yet to recover year-ago level
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's exports of gallium and germanium products in March declined from year-ago levels, customs data showed on Saturday, underlining the impact of export controls in place since last August. China announced in early July 2023 ...
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UAW clinches watershed union victory at Volkswagen Tennessee factory
By Nora Eckert CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) - Workers at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers, the union said on Friday, calling victory after an unofficial tally showed a majority of eligible workers had cast...
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Brazil's Embraer delivers 25 jets in Q1; backlog hits 7-year high
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Friday it delivered 25 aircraft - seven commercial planes and 18 executive jets - in the first quarter of 2024, a 67% increase on a yearly basis. Embraer, the world's third-largest planemak...
11h ago
Sports News
NCAA Hockey returns to the Denny
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Major college hockey is back at the Premier Center in Sioux Falls. Four teams are competing for a spot in the Frozen Four. Boston takes on Rochester Institute of Technology this afternoon. Minnesota squares off against the University of Nebraska-Omaha tonight. It's the first time the N...
Mar 28, 2024
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...
Mar 27, 2024
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
Boxing: AIBA cancels European Forum amid coronavirus fears
(Reuters) - The international boxing federation (AIBA) has canceled its European forum, which was scheduled to take place in the Italian town of Assisi on Saturday, amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak, AIBA said on Thursday. Italy has reported ove...
Jan 05, 2024
Wrestling: Bulgaria's Nazaryan aims to follow in father's footsteps
By Angel Krasimirov SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler Edmond "Eddie" Nazaryan is determined to emulate his father and stand on top of the Olympic Games podium with a gold medal hung around his neck. Earlier this month the baby-faced Eddi...
Jan 05, 2024
Health News
USDA confirms cow-to-cow transmission a factor in bird flu spread
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that cow-to-cow transmission is a factor in the spread of bird flu in dairy herds, but it still does not know exactly how the virus is being moved around. Farmers...
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Butler Hall Capital urges Vanda to engage in sales discussions
(Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Butler Hall Capital said on Friday it is urging Vanda Pharmaceuticals to form an independent special committee to engage with Future Pak over its takeover offer and run a full sales process. On April 17, Vanda rejecte...
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Eating disorders still a "huge problem" in climbing, gold medallist Garnbret says
PARIS (Reuters) - Eating disorders remain a "huge" issue in climbing, Olympic gold medallist Janja Garnbret said, even as new regulations meant to stop dangerously underweight athletes competing came into effect earlier this month. The Internationa...
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WHO says wider alert on contaminated J&J cough syrup 'likely'
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is likely to issue a wider warning about contaminated Johnson and Johnson-made children's cough syrup found in Nigeria last week, it said in an email. Nigeria's regulator recalled a...
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Explainer-How freezing embryos plays a crucial role in IVF
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The practice of freezing embryos as part of in vitro fertilization (IVF) was thrown into chaos in Alabama this year, when the state supreme court ruled that such embryos should be considered children, exposing clinics to ...
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Science News
Three Russians parachute from stratosphere to North Pole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth's stratosphere to the North Pole last week in a mission that also served as a test of a new prototype communications system for use in the Arctic, an organiser of t...
Apr 19, 2024
Fossils of colossal snake Vasuki unearthed in India mine
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length - longer than a T. rex - that prowled the sw...
Apr 18, 2024
Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Eart...
Apr 17, 2024
Head of Russian space agency says work under way on modernised Angara rocket
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is working on a modernised Angara-A5M rocket capable of launching manned spacecraft, and plans to launch it in 2027, the head of its Roscosmos state space agency said on Wednesday. "Already now, by order of Roscosmos, a mo...
Apr 17, 2024
Astronomers detect Milky Way's second-largest known black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galax...
Apr 16, 2024
Technology News
Musk says Tesla's Full Self-Driving may enter China very soon
(Reuters) - Tesla chief Elon Musk on Saturday said the electric-vehicle (EV) maker may make Full Self-Driving (FSD) available to customers in China very soon. Musk said "It may be possible very soon" while replying to an X post by a user asking whe...
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Tesla's Elon Musk postpones India trip, aims to visit this year
By Aditi Shah, Aditya Kalra and Sarita Chaganti Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Elon Musk postponed a planned trip to India where he was to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, citing obligations at his Tesla automaker and saying he aimed to reschedule the vi...
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Skydance expects to more than double its revenue in coming years, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - Skydance Media, which is in exclusive merger talks with Paramount Global, expects to more than double its revenue and triple its adjusted earnings in the coming years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Skydance expects to make...
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Amazon advertising chief steps aside for new role
By Greg Bensinger (Reuters) - Amazon.com's advertising chief Colleen Aubrey, who has held that role for nearly three years, is moving to a new undisclosed position at the company. Spokeswoman Kristin Mariani said Aubrey's new position would be anno...
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Apple's offer to open up tap-and-go tech to be approved by EU next month, sources say
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Apple's offer to open its tap-and-go mobile payments system to rivals is set to be approved by EU antitrust regulators as soon as next month after it tweaked some of the terms, people familiar with the matter sa...
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Entertainment News
Taylor Swift surprises with extra tracks on 'Tortured Poets Department' album
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Taylor Swift surprised fans with her new record "The Tortured Poets Department" on Friday, revealing it was a double album featuring songs about heartbreak and a period described as "the saddest story" of th...
Apr 19, 2024
Sony, Apollo discuss joint bid for Paramount, says source
By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) - Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management are discussing making a joint bid for Paramount Global, according to a person familiar with the matter. The companies have yet to approach Paramount, which is ...
Apr 19, 2024
Netflix handily beats subscriber targets but misses on revenue forecast
By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Netflix blew past Wall Street expectations on new customers for the second straight quarter on Thursday but signaled the positive surprises could be over, forecasting revenue growth slightly ...
Apr 18, 2024
NBA's exclusive TV rights talks with Disney, Warner likely to end without deal, CNBC reports
(Reuters) -The National Basketball Association's exclusive media rights negotiating period with current partners Walt Disney and Warner Bros Discovery is likely to expire without a new deal on Monday, CNBC reported on Thursday. NBA will be able to eng...
Apr 18, 2024
Alec Baldwin's criminal case hinges on a Wild West revolver
By Andrew Hay TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) - A Colt .45 "Peacemaker" revolver, a symbol of the American Wild West, is at the center of actor Alec Baldwin's fight to avoid criminal prosecution for the 2021 fatal shooting of "Rust" cinematographer Haly...
Apr 18, 2024