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
Wells Fargo bond saleswoman sues over 'unapologetically sexist' workplace
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Wells Fargo was accused of sex discrimination in a lawsuit by a bond saleswoman who said the fourth-largest U.S. bank denied pay and promotions available to men and tolerated an "unapologetically sexist" workplace. T...
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Alberta municipalities, farmers agree to cut water use as drought persists
By Nia Williams (Reuters) - Municipalities and irrigation districts in the western Canadian province of Alberta have agreed to use less water this summer to combat a severe ongoing drought, the provincial government said on Friday. Environment Mini...
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Person engulfed in flames outside NY courthouse where Trump trial underway, says CNN
(Reuters) -A person was covered in flames outside the New York courthouse where former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial is underway, CNN reported on Friday. Representatives for New York's fire and police departments as well as the may...
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RFK Jr running mate injects needed cash in independent's campaign
By Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) - The role Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, will play in his White House bid is coming into focus, as the wealthy lawyer injects millions of dollars into their independent campaign and amplifies th...
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U.S. national dies in Russian-controlled Donetsk - Russian journalist
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russell Bentley, a U.S. national, has died in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in Ukraine, Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia's state media outlet RT, wrote on Telegram on Friday. Simonyan said Bentley had been "fighting th...
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World News
French, Lebanese leaders discuss effort to quell Hezbollah, Israel clashes
BEIRUT (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron met Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the country's army chief Joseph Aoun in Paris on Friday for talks on how to end cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel and ease a political...
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UN rights chief urges states to act on slavery reparations
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people of African descent at a U.N. meeting on Friday, adding his voice to calls for justice for slavery atrocitie...
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Organisers of Jewish pilgrimage in Tunisia cancel annual celebrations over Gaza
TUNIS (Reuters) - An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisia's Djerba synagogue and celebration has been cancelled due to the war in Gaza, the head of the organising committee, Perez Trabelsi, told Reuters on Friday. Trabelsi added that the committee...
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US House advances $95 billion Ukraine-Israel package toward Saturday vote
By Makini Brice and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives advanced a $95 billion legislative package on Friday providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific in a broad bipartisan vote, overcoming hardline ...
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IMF committee acknowledges conflicts risk but opts against joint communique
By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's steering committee failed to issue a joint communique on Friday amid disagreements over wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, opting instead for a statement from the bod...
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Business News
Tesla Semi trucks in short supply for PepsiCo as its rivals use competing EV big rigs
By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - Key Tesla customer PepsiCo made initial payments for 100 Tesla Semis in 2017, intending to use the electric-truck fleet to haul its Cheetos, Lays potato chips and Pepsi soda pop to retailers. But according t...
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Wells Fargo bond saleswoman sues over 'unapologetically sexist' workplace
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Wells Fargo was accused of sex discrimination in a lawsuit by a bond saleswoman who said the fourth-largest U.S. bank denied pay and promotions available to men and tolerated an "unapologetically sexist" workplace. T...
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UnitedHealth CEO to testify before US House panel on cyberattack at tech unit
(Reuters) - UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty will testify before a U.S. House subcommittee on May 1 about a recent cyberattack at the company's technology unit and its impact on patients and providers, the Energy and Commerce Committee said on Friday....
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Governments must broker local support for mines, industry group says
(This April 17 story has been officially corrected after the industry trade group clarifies to say it believes industry has a role to play in the government's FPIC review process, in paragraph 9) By Ernest Scheyder SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The world's ...
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Debt, fiscal challenges facing low-income countries worry IMF
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shareholders of the International Monetary Fund agreed this week on the importance of addressing challenges faced by low-income countries, many of which are facing unsustainable debt burdens,...
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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...
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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
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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Trump media shares gain as it alerts Nasdaq of 'potential market manipulation'
(Reuters) - Shares of Donald Trump's media and technology company were up more than 3% on Friday after it asked the Nasdaq exchange to help prevent "naked" short-selling in its shares. Trump Media & Technology Group has alerted the CEO of Nasdaq of...
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Olympics-Games' broadcaster embracing AI but remains wary of deepfakes
By Richa Naidu LONDON (Reuters) - As part of a push by the International Olympic Committee to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in Paris, the Games' broadcaster is stepping up its use of the technology -- but not without concerns about the risk ...
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China moves to boost foreign investment in domestic tech companies
BEIJING (Reuters) - China published measures on Friday aimed at promoting overseas investment in its technology sector, in a latest bid to attract foreign investors amid signs some are considering shifting away from the world's second-largest econo...
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Dutch privacy watchdog recommends government organisations stop using Facebook
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government's Facebook pages. "P...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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