SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- More than four years after the fact, a suspect pleads guilty in a Sioux Falls kidnapping and murder case. Amir Beaudion pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2020 death of Pasqalina Badi. Beaudion kidnapped Badi in the parking lot of the east-side WalMart, killed her and abandoned her bod...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation is gathering evidence following two officer-involved shootings late Tuesday afternoon. One of those included a Sioux Falls Police officer being struck by a bullet. He was among several officers trying to arrest 25-year old Samir Albaidh...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Add "destructive severe thunderstorms" to your list of possible weather warnings for the upcoming storm season. City Emergency Manager Regan Smith says that warning will sound identical to a tornado warning, and you should respond by taking cover. He says it's also important to ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - Xcel Energy crews are working to assess damage and safely restore power to customers as quickly as possible after a line of thunderstorms, now termed a derecho by the Sioux Falls National Weather Service, brought damaging winds, hail and flash flooding through the surrounding area yesterd...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley is in the win column in a battle with the NC-Double-A over a Name-Image-and-Likeness settlement. The state has sued the NCAA, saying its proposed 2.8-billion dollar settlement and larger colleges is unfair to smaller D-1 schools. Jackley wants that suit to ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Area residents lined up to give their input on the state's plans for a new men's prison. Governor Larry Rhoden's "Project Prison Reset" Task force is receiving public comments this afternoon. Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken started things off, saying it's long past the time to ...

ABERDEEN, SD (KELO.com) -- Now it's official. The South Dakota Board of Regents approved a 2.9-percent tuition rate hike today...after five consecutive years of holding tuition steady. Regents' Executive Director Nathan Lukkes says it's a delicate balance between affordability and maintaining quality programs for stu...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- U-S Attorney Alison Ramsdell calls it one of the largest methamphetamine conspiracies in South Dakota history. 45-year old Christopher Spider of Crow Creek, South Dakota and Lance Brunsting of Colorado were convicted of conspiracy to distribute hundreds of pounds of meth during a trial in...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Department of Social Services is losing three million dollars in grants from the Federal Government. The U-S Department of Health and Human Services terminated the grants for behavioral health initiatives. The money was from the "American Rescue Plan" from the pandemi...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A new law approved by this year's legislature is the target of a lawsuit. The law changes the deadline for submitting petitions for ballot measures, moving it from May to February. The suit was filed by Rick Weiland and Dakotans for Health, which had two measures on the 2024 ballot.

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington, D.C.'s top federal prosecutor announced on Friday that he is launching investigations into whether people improperly leaked information about the prosecutions of President Donald Trump's supporters wh...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean 'Diddy' Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed. Combs, 55, had previously faced three criminal...

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in March, but President Donald Trump's sweeping import tariffs could test the labor market's resilience in the months ahead amid sagging business confidence...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday told investors who he said were investing money in the United States that his policies would never change, as global stock markets tumbled for a second day following his announced tariff plan ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's finance ministry said on Friday it will impose additional tariffs of 34% on all U.S. goods from April 10 as a countermeasure to sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. (Reporting by Mei Mei Chu; editing...

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Myanmar has confirmed that 180,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh since fleeing their homeland are eligible to return, the Bangladesh government's press office said on Friday. The announcement, following talks in B...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has committed to helping military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger acquire arms and training for a planned 5,000-strong force to deploy in the central Sahel region, a statement said. The West African nations, ru...

By Felix Light (Reuters) - Armenia's president on Friday signed into law a bill that sets a legal foundation for the South Caucasus country to move towards joining the European Union as it moves to diversify its international ties beyond traditiona...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The safe passage granted by Panama to its former President Ricardo Martinelli so he can travel to Nicaragua expired at midnight on Thursday after the Nicaraguan government did not respond within the set timeframe. Martinelli...

By Gerhard Mey POOLE, England (Reuters) - An anti-abortion activist, whose case has attracted the attention of the United States over free speech concerns, was found guilty on Friday of breaching an order which banned protest outside a clinic in so...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's ByteDance faces a Saturday deadline to sell the U.S. assets of TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer, which was imposed by President Donald Trump in January, or face a ban that was supposed to take effect ...

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's top 'fear gauge' jumped to a fresh eight-month high on Friday as U.S. stocks opened sharply lower after China imposed fresh tariffs on all U.S. goods in response to the Trump administration's ...

By Nora Eckert (Reuters) - Chrysler-parent Stellantis is extending its employee-discount program to the wider market on some new models, the company confirmed Friday. The automaker is giving shoppers the option of taking the employee incentive pric...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French engine and aircraft equipment maker Safran on Friday secured the green light from EU antitrust regulators for its $1.8 billion bid for Collins Aerospace's flight controls business after pledging to sell a...

By Ellen Zhang, Maria Martinez and Promit Mukherjee BEIJING/BERLIN/OTTAWA (Reuters) - U.S. trading partners have few good options in their trade war with President Donald Trump, other than to sue for peace. Hit by 10%-50% tariffs on their exports t...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Skyforce routed the Texas Legends Thursday evening 125 to 107 - making a season-high sixth-straight victory at the Sanford Pentagon.

FORT MEYERS, FL (KELO.c0m) -- Pablo Lopez struggled in his first Spring Training start during a 12-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Lee Health Sports Complex on Thursday. Lopez was charged with the loss after surrendering three runs on four hits in just two innings of work. Matt Wallner drove in Minnesota's only r...

LAKELAND, FL (KELO.com) -- The Minnesota Twins held the Detroit Tigers to two hits during a 4-0 Spring Training victory at Publix Field. Andrew Morris earned his first win of the Spring after tossing two no-hit innings. DaShawn Keirsey, Allan Cerda, and Rubel Cespedes all homered in the victory. Minnesota improved t...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (KELO.com) -- The Minnesota Vikings are continuing to live the good life. The NFL Players Association released its annual survey yesterday, and the Vikings finished second in the league for a second-straight season. The report cards grade organizations on several factors including practice facilities,...

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...

(Reuters) -Sarepta Therapeutics said on Friday it had temporarily halted three trials testing its gene therapy Elevidys, following the death of a patient last month upon receiving the treatment. The company reported on March 18 that a 16-year-old boy d...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -(To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here) Patients with early-stage invasive breast cancer can safely skip surgery if the tumors disappear after chemotherapy, a small new study suggests. Thirty-one p...

By Ahmed Aboulenein, Julie Steenhuysen and Maggie Fick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration's mass firings at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have removed employees critical to reviewing new medicines, setting back years of effort to br...

By Kashish Tandon (Reuters) -Indian pharmaceutical stocks fell 4.4% on Friday, wiping out gains from the previous session, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on the sector. "Pharma (tariffs) is going to be starting to come in, I...

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from cutting more than $11 billion in public health grants allocated to U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ruling by U.S. Distri...

(Reuters) - U.S. liquefied natural gas developer Venture Global exported 29 cargoes from its Plaquemines facility in Louisiana during the first quarter of 2025, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Venture Global realized an average...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye's rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart - known as Bonnie Prince Charlie - arrived by boat disguised as a maid to hide from the English in 1746...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Wednesday it plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network next week, pinning down a long-awaited start to the company's plan to deploy a massive constellation ...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on t...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled befo...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's ByteDance faces a Saturday deadline to sell the U.S. assets of TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer, which was imposed by President Donald Trump in January, or face a ban that was supposed to take effect ...

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Hedge fund Anson Funds blamed Match Group's board for the online dating company's underperformance and named publicly for the first time its three director candidates who all have expertise in the technology s...

(Reuters) - U.S. tech heavyweights, banks and oil majors extended losses on Friday after Beijing retaliated with additional duties of 34% on U.S. goods, amplifying investor concerns over an escalating global trade war that has stoked fears of a rec...

By Inti Landauro MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) -Canadian-based tech company Telus is dismissing as many as 2,000 people from its content moderation centre in Barcelona after Facebook owner Meta Platforms severed its contract, local unions CCOO and UGT sai...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Audio streaming giant Spotify's royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets - spiked to around $59 million last year as performers rode a wave of growing interest in music fro...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean 'Diddy' Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed. Combs, 55, had previously faced three criminal...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Audio streaming giant Spotify's royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets - spiked to around $59 million last year as performers rode a wave of growing interest in music fro...

LONDON (Reuters) -British police charged actor-comedian Russell Brand with rape and a multiple counts of assault over a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005, a police statement on Friday said. Brand, 50, the former husband of U.S. pop singer Kat...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will allow actor Mel Gibson to own guns again, despite his 2011 conviction on a domestic violence charge, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The Times, citing unnamed sources familiar with the Justice Depart...

By Lisa Richwine LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The next installment of the "Avatar" movie franchise will introduce a new challenge to the Sully family on the moon of Pandora, director James Cameron said as Walt Disney unveiled the first footage from the fi...