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.

By Nate Raymond and Dan Burns (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a once widely bipartisan measure that would have been the first major expansion of the federa...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - A New Mexico criminal case against actor Alec Baldwin stemming from a fatal shooting on the set of his movie "Rust" in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case's dismissal. Special Prosecuto...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Rare golden tigresses with cream-coloured coats and wide eyes at a zoo in northern Thailand have become internet sensations, after luring massive crowds to shows where they have been trained to perform tricks. Unusu...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday announced $12 million towards emergency response and recovery in Vanuatu, a week after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed at least 14 people, wrecked buildings and cut power and water ...

(Reuters) - The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has told the White House it is unable to reach a consensus on national security risks involved in Nippon Steel's bid for U.S. Steel, the Washington Post reported on Monday...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed two Islamic State operatives and wounded one. The Islamic State operatives were moving a truckload of weapons in Dayr az Zawr Province, an area f...

CAIRO (Reuters) -The Israel military said in a statement early on Tuesday that sirens sounded in several areas in central Israel following the launch of a projectile from Yemen. The missile was intercepted before crossing into Israeli territory, it add...

By Mark Bendeich LONDON (Reuters) - Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world's population called voters to the polls, democracies endured violence and major scares...

(Reuters) - The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that's expected to show famine spreading across the country, a step likely to undercut efforts to address one of the w...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Tuesday announced $12 million towards emergency response and recovery in Vanuatu, a week after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed at least 14 people, wrecked buildings and cut power and water ...

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks edged up on Tuesday, though moves were subdued in a holiday-curtailed week, while the greenback held near a two-year high helped by elevated U.S. Treasury yields as investors prepared for fewer Federal ...

(Reuters) - Stellantis unit FCA US agreed to pay $4.2 million to resolve a California investigation into excess emissions, the state said on Monday. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) said the vehicles covered by the settlement include 2014 ...

By Katya Golubkova TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices were up on Tuesday in thin trade ahead of the Christmas Day holiday, with prices supported by U.S. economic data and rising oil demand in India, the world's third-largest oil importer. Brent crude fut...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Corporate services provider Amicorp Group has denied allegations it knowingly facilitated more than $7 billion in fraudulent transactions related to the misappropriation of funds from scandal-hit Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia D...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan policymakers agreed in October to keep raising interest rates if the economy moves in line with their forecast, but some stressed the need for caution due to the uncertain outlook, minutes of the meet...

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) - Merck will discontinue its drug for a bacterial infection that can lead to fatal diarrhea, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's website showed on Monday. The antibody drug, Zinplava, was first approved by the regulator in 2016 to pre...

(Reuters) - The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that's expected to show famine spreading across the country, a step likely to undercut efforts to address one of the w...

(Reuters) - Health insurer NeueHealth said on Monday that an affiliate of New Enterprise Associates and a consortium of investors would take it private at an enterprise value of about $1.3 billion. Shares of the company were up 62.4% in extended tr...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An indictment unsealed on Monday charged the former chief scientific officer of biopharmaceutical company Humanigen with engaging in an insider trading scheme involving the firm's stock, the U.S. Justice Department said. Betw...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand officials said on Tuesday that testing showed they had contained the strain of highly pathogenic H7N6 avian flu that infected a farm this month. Mary van Andel, chief veterinary officer at the Mini...

YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years. The creature, resembling a small elephant with...

By Sebin Choi DAEJEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight wearable robot that can walk up to paraplegic users and lock itself onto them, enabling them to walk, manoeuvre obstacles and climb staircases. The...

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...

By Anna Tong and Krystal Hu Microsoft has been working on adding internal and third-party artificial intelligence models to power its flagship AI product Microsoft 365 Copilot, in a bid to diversify from the current underlying technology from OpenAI an...

(Reuters) - Talen Energy plans to contest the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) rejection of an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data center at its Pennsylvania nuclear plant, the company said on Monday. The U.S. utility ...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google's proposed changes to its search results to comply with EU tech legislation has received the thumbs up from lobbying group Airlines for Europe whose members include Air France KLM and Lufthansa...

GDANSK (Reuters) -A subsidiary of Polish e-commerce platform Allegro filed a lawsuit on Monday against Google owner Alphabet, Google Ireland and Google LLC seeking 2.33 billion zlotys ($568 million) in damages, citing allegations of anti-competitive pr...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's video surveillance equipment maker Zhejiang Dahua Technology said that it and its subsidiaries have agreed to terminate or exit five projects they signed with local governments in China's Xinjiang region, a stock exchang...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - A New Mexico criminal case against actor Alec Baldwin stemming from a fatal shooting on the set of his movie "Rust" in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case's dismissal. Special Prosecuto...

By Amy Tennery and Rory Carroll (Reuters) - A pair of Christmas Day games on Netflix will help the NFL build on its international footprint, league officials say, as the most popular professional league in the United States hopes to harness the str...

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...