SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A Sioux Falls man faces numerous charges in a sexual assault case that went on for more than a decade. 60-year old Leon Siess allegedly raped and trafficked the victim, who was only ten when it began in 2009. Police say the victim is now safe, and communicating with police.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- An aggravated assault case that started on South Western Avenue at about two Friday morning made for a long night for Sioux Falls police. 33-year old Donte Newton allegedly punched a woman several times until she lost consciousness. He left the scene with two children, six and seven year...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls City officials are getting excited about the opening of Jacobson Plaza near Falls Park early next year. This week, the Parks Department took the first steps toward setting rates for using the new refrigerated Ice Ribbon. Recreation Manager Jackie Nelson proposed skate rentals...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The home-based Childcare universe is about to grow in Sioux Falls. A grant last spring from the Governor's Office of Economic Development was put to work over the summer, providing training for people interested in opening childcare operations. Education Services supervisor Laura Smith-H...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) You could be in for some traffic delays next week if the I-229 & Cliff Avenue interchange is part of your daily commute. The northbound off-ramp will be closed from Monday through Wednesday. Crews are doing prelim-work for next year's planned reconstruction of the interchange.

ETHAN, SD (KELO.com) -- Ethan Elementary school may be small, but it's big on results. It's being recognized as one of two South Dakota National Distinguished Schools. Superintendent Tim Hawkins says parents and teachers encourage strong attendance numbers, which is part of the reason for the school's success. Hawkin...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Republican legislative leadership panel is moving to the right. Jon Hansen of Dell Rapids was elected House Speaker, while Senator-elect Chris Karr of SIoux Falls will serve as President pro-tempore in the Senate. Hansen was co-leader of the Life Defense Fund, which successfull...

WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) -- According to national news outlets, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select South Dakota governor Kristi Noem be the new Homeland Security Secretary. If selected, Noem would work with Tom Homan, who was announced as Trump's "Border Czar" on Sunday. An official announc...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- The 2024 general election is history and Congressman Dusty Johnson won a fourth term in the U.S. House. One of his frustrations is the lack of progress on a new five-year farm bill..... The Farm Bill has not been updated since 2018.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- By all accounts the 2024 pheasant hunting season has been successful so far. The Game, Fish and Parks Commission was updated on the first month of the season by Wild Life Division Director Tom Kirschenmann.... A landowner with property in Stanley and Haakon County told G-F-and-P officials the...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - A small group of masked protesters waving Nazi flags and wearing white supremacist symbols on their clothing marched outside a Michigan theater during a performance of "The Diary of Anne Frank" over the weekend. A local A...

By Brendan O'Brien and Rich McKay (Reuters) - Strengthening winds and bone-dry conditions were hindering firefighters working to gain control of a stubborn wildfire burning in a forested stretch along the New York-New Jersey state border about 50 m...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he picked Republican Representative Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser, tapping a retired Army Green Beret who has been a leading critic of China. (Reporting by Kanish...

By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is joining venture capital firm 1789 Capital, which focuses on investing in conservative companies, according to three sources familiar with his plans. 1789...

(Reuters) - Plains All American Pipeline has agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill in Santa Barbara, a filing showed on Tuesday. The spill occurred after a pipeline, which ran across California's coas...

By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) - The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned over an abuse cover-up scandal on Tuesday, marking an unprecedented moment for the Church of England. He becomes the first leader of the church, as well as the wide...

(Reuters) - Jailed Belarusian dissident Maria Kalesnikava, a key figure in the opposition movement to President Alexander Lukashenko, was permitted to meet her father on Tuesday, the first time any picture of her has been seen in well over a year. ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it will bar U.S. airlines from operating in Haiti for 30 days after two commercial jetliners were struck by gunfire on Monday. The FAA issued a Notice to...

By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a direct message to Iranians on Tuesday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's government feared the people of Iran more than Israel. "That's why they sp...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has decided not to change military assistance to Israel for now, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. The officials also stressed the U.S. wants to see more step...

By Christoph Steitz and Tom Käckenhoff MUNICH/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) -Siemens Energy raised its midterm outlook on Tuesday as it reported a new record for its order book and a narrower fourth-quarter loss, boosted by rising demand for power equipment an...

(Reuters) - Apple is planning on launching a wall-mounted display that can control appliances, handle video conferencing and use artificial intelligence to navigate apps, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the effor...

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) - Even with some recent bouts of volatility, it appears money market liquidity levels still remain robust, a top New York Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. While the volatility that struck markets at t...

By Alden Bentley (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Investors sobered up from post-election euphoria over Republican Donald Trump's victory and took some profits ahead of Wednesday's October U.S. CPI report, which kicks off a cal...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - H&R Block agreed to pay $7 million to settle multiple U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges, including that it deceived many taxpayers into believing they could file their taxes online for free. Tuesday's settlement ...

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...

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children's hospital, sick with Canada's first presumptive human case of avian influenza. "This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underlyi...

(Reuters) - The Justice Department and three U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block UnitedHealth Group's $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys Inc over concern the deal would harm competition in the market for home health services, the departm...

By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) - The number of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in the United States in 2023 was down nearly 2% from the year before, a sign the epidemic could be slowing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesd...

(Reuters) - Elanco Animal Health agreed to pay a $15 million civil fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission anti-fraud charges for misleading investors about its revenue growth and end-user demand, the regulator said on Tuesday. The S...

By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Dublin-based conglomerate DCC said on Tuesday it would put its healthcare division up for sale and look at options for its technology business in order to focus on energy, its biggest and fastest growing unit. Chie...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that documents alarming population declin...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. This frigid planet, our solar system's third largest, remains a bit of an enigma 243...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elon Musk's dream of transporting humans to Mars will become a bigger national priority under the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sources said, signaling big changes for NASA's moon progr...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the assistance of China's Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago - a far cry from the dry and desolate world it is today. Scientists sai...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects, which increase in mass over time by eating mater...

(Reuters) - Apple is planning on launching a wall-mounted display that can control appliances, handle video conferencing and use artificial intelligence to navigate apps, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the effor...

(Reuters) - Instacart on Tuesday forecast current-quarter gross transaction value (GTV) and core profit below estimates, in signs that spending on online grocery and food deliveries could temper in the holiday season amid sticky inflation. Shares o...

(Reuters) -OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave from his role as president, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Brockman has been...

(Reuters) - Audio-streaming giant Spotify forecast fourth-quarter profit above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, betting on cost cuts and strong subscriber growth in the crucial holiday season, sending its shares up 7.7% after the bell. The Swedish...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian payments firm StoneCo posted on Tuesday a 35% increase in its third-quarter adjusted net profit from a year earlier, beating analysts' estimates. StoneCo, which also owns software and credit businesses, reported an a...

LONDON (Reuters) - Refugees should be included in climate policy, actor and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Theo James has said as he heads to COP29 to call for greater support for those affected by the impact of climate change. James, whose grandfather ...

By Alicia Powell (Reuters) - Actor Cole Hauser has listened to a number of fan theories about the final episodes of the American neo-Western TV series "Yellowstone" - and is not afraid to tell them they're wrong. "This show and what they think this...

By William Schomberg (Reuters) - U.S. saxophonist Lou Donaldson, one of jazz music's last remaining links to the era of bebop in the 1950s who went on to develop a soul and Latin-inspired sound in the following decades, has died at 98. His death on...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian (Reuters) - Pop megastar Taylor Swift was the big winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday, picking up four trophies at the Manchester ceremony in England, which included a tribute to late singer Liam Payne. Swift, ...

(Reuters) - Judith Jamison, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who for two decades was artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died on Saturday in New York at the age of 81. Her death came after a brief illness, according to...