Local News
Stabbing in Sioux Falls leaves one man dead
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A stabbing in Sioux Falls has left one man dead. This morning police responded to a call of a stabbing in the 500 block of South Duluth Avenue. A twenty five year old man died as a result of his injuries. Police have yet to name a suspect, and no arrests have been made. The investigation...
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Bishop Dudley Hospitality House expands help for homeless families
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Help for homeless families in Sioux Falls is growing. The Bishop Dudley Hospitality House is expanding into the former Children's Inn building on Western Avenue. The new building will be able to host ten families and provide intensive case management for families looking to get back on t...
8h ago
United Way in Mitchell exceeds goals
MITCHELL, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Mitchell United Way is celebrating another successful campaign. The 2024 campaign set a goal of $475,000 and executive director Ashley Hobbs says the final total is over $491,000... Funds will support 33 local agencies addressing critical areas such as food security, housing, education,...
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Winter Wonderland coming to life at The Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- You may want to consider a trip to Falls Park Friday night, as the lights for Winter Wonderland are lit at 5pm. There will also be a fireworks display starting at six. The Falls Overlook Cafe will provide free hot drinks and ice cream from 5:30 to nine pm.
Nov 22, 2024
Former Mayor - "The Falls development takes us in the right direction"
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Falls Park will become a Winter Wonderland tonight as residents soak in a new master plan for The Falls - as it's called in that plan. Dozens of miles of light strings will illuminate the park, as the switch is flipped at 5pm to signal the arrival of the holidays. Thursday night parks de...
Nov 22, 2024
State News
Tourism campaign enjoying success
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Travel South Dakota's latest tourism ad campaign is delivering strong results. The "So Much South Dakota, So Little Time" campaign generated over 12-million impressions this fall, with about 37-thousand visiting the website. Travel South Dakota says that produced nearly 56-thousand ...
Nov 22, 2024
South Dakota GOP to select new leader
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A change at the top of South Dakota's Republican party. State chairman John Wiik won't seek a second term. The Dakota Scout reports there are three people interested in the post. Former state House Majority Leader Lee Qualm, "Vote No on H" chair Ezra Hays, and anti-carbon pipeline ...
Nov 20, 2024
Judge dismisses Amendment G lawsuit
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- As expected, an election lawsuit involving both sides of the Abortion Amendment G on South Dakota's ballot has been dismissed. Both sides requested the dismissal. The suit challenged the petition signature collection process, but that became a moot point when the amendment was defeated.
Nov 20, 2024
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Attorney General calls for federal online protection for children
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- It's called the Kids Online Safety Act. Attorney General Marty Jackley and 31 of his colleagues say it's time for Congress to join the effort to protect children from harmful internet content. The measure would require platforms to automatically enable their strongest safety protections, prev...
Nov 20, 2024
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Telemedicine in Motion program earning praise
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- A 20-million dollar investment is paying big dividends for the state of South Dakota, in the area of Rural Telemedicine. It's called the Telemedicine in Motion program, and the state Health Department says it has transformed emergency medical services across the state. EMS and Trauma Administ...
Nov 18, 2024
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National News
Trump expected to pick Brooke Rollins to be agriculture secretary, WSJ reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, to be agriculture secretary, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. If confirmed, Rollins would lead a 1...
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Chinese films about COVID, gay romance win big at Taiwan awards
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Films from China about the COVID pandemic and a gay romance won major prizes on Saturday in Taiwan at the Golden Horse awards, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars. Unencumbered by the strict censorship of China, Ta...
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Trump's FDA pick is surgeon and writer Martin Makary
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has nominated surgeon and writer Martin Makary to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the world's most influential drug regulator with a more than $7 billion budget. The FDA reg...
13h ago
Factbox-The climate impact of fossil fuel exports
BAKU (Reuters) - A landmark agreement reached in Paris in 2015 to fight climate change requires countries to set targets and report on progress reducing national levels of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. However, it does not impose such re...
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How big fossil-fuel-producing countries export emissions abroad
By Mohamed Ezz and Valerie Volcovici ALEXANDRIA, Egypt/BAKU (Reuters) - Black dust coats streets and collects on rooftops in the neighbourhood adjoining a sprawling cement factory in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Activists and local residents ac...
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World News
Chinese films about COVID, gay romance win big at Taiwan awards
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Films from China about the COVID pandemic and a gay romance won major prizes on Saturday in Taiwan at the Golden Horse awards, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars. Unencumbered by the strict censorship of China, Ta...
5h ago
How big fossil-fuel-producing countries export emissions abroad
By Mohamed Ezz and Valerie Volcovici ALEXANDRIA, Egypt/BAKU (Reuters) - Black dust coats streets and collects on rooftops in the neighbourhood adjoining a sprawling cement factory in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Activists and local residents ac...
16h ago
At least four missiles fired in strike that rocked Beirut, security sources say
BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least four missiles were fired in an airstrike towards Lebanon's central Beirut early on Saturday, security sources told Reuters, as Israel pushed on with its intense military campaign against the Lebanese armed group Hezbolla...
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Trump's attorney general pick Bondi questioned his 2020 election defeat
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump considered firing the leadership of the Justice Department and installing a loyalist who would echo his false claims of fraud. As he prepares to ...
Nov 22, 2024
Putin says Russia will keep testing new missile in combat
By Anastasia Teterevleva and Maxim Rodionov MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would keep testing its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile in combat and had a stock ready for use. Putin was speaking a day after Russia...
Nov 22, 2024
Business News
Goldman funds to take $900 million hit on Northvolt, FT reports
(Reuters) - Funds managed by Goldman Sachs will write off nearly $900 million after Swedish lithium-ion battery producer Northvolt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this week, Britain's Financial Times reported on Saturday. The Goldman privat...
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Britain's Asda brings back industry veteran Leighton to lead business
By James Davey and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) - Struggling British supermarket Asda said on Saturday veteran retailer Allan Leighton would return as executive chairman, more than two decades after he served as CEO when he turned around the business ...
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China's Huawei aims 100,000 apps on Harmony OS in 6-12 months
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Huawei, blacklisted by the U.S., said on Saturday it is targeting 100,000 applications for its Harmony operating system in coming months as it seeks widespread help to achieve self-reliance. The tech giant has more than...
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US alleges car parts factory in Mexico violates North America trade pact
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. has alleged workers at a French-owned auto parts plant in Mexico were denied the right to collective bargaining in violation of a North America trade agreement and asked Mexico to investigate. The U.S. Trade Represen...
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Northvolt crisis may be make or break for Europe's EV battery ambitions
By Marie Mannes, Alessandro Parodi and Stine Jacobsen STOCKHOLM/GDANSK (Reuters) - Northvolt's financial collapse deals a blow to Europe's plan to set up its own battery industry to power electric cars, stirring a debate about whether it needs to d...
Nov 22, 2024
Sports News
Sioux Falls entrepreneur ready for football
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...
Aug 10, 2024
Augie granted conference membership a year ahead of schedule
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 ...
Jul 17, 2024
Canaries on a roll
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...
Jul 11, 2024
Canaries make it three in a row, lead the league
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...
Jun 28, 2024
Augie women drop tournament opener
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...
May 20, 2024
Health News
Trump's FDA pick is surgeon and writer Martin Makary
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has nominated surgeon and writer Martin Makary to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the world's most influential drug regulator with a more than $7 billion budget. The FDA reg...
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Canada confirms first case of clade I mpox in Canada
(Reuters) -Canada's public health agency on Friday confirmed the first case of clade I mpox in Canada, in an person in Manitoba. The Public Health Agency of Canada said this travel-related case was associated with an ongoing outbreak of clade I mpox in...
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Health Rounds: Features of cancer found in healthy breast cells
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - Healthy women's breasts contain small numbers of cells with genetic changes characteristic of invasive breast cancer, two separate papers reported on Wednesday, potentially increasing the risk of incorrect diagnoses. With...
Nov 22, 2024
US CDC confirms H5N1 bird flu in a child in California
(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed the country's first case of H5N1 bird flu infection in a child, who experienced mild symptoms and is recovering from their illness. California's public health department...
Nov 22, 2024
Mpox still a health emergency, says WHO
LONDON (Reuters) -The Mpox outbreak continues to represent a public health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The WHO first declared the emergency in August, when an outbreak of a new form of mpox spread from the badly-hit Democra...
Nov 22, 2024
Science News
Fast-forming alien planet has astronomers intrigued
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of the spee...
Nov 22, 2024
Scientists obtain image of a star on the precipice of disaster
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads toward its demise in a huge explosion called a supernova - the first time the events of ...
Nov 21, 2024
Russian scientists hail discovery of 32,000-year-old sabre-toothed cat cub
YAKUTSK, RUSSIA (Reuters) - The sabre-toothed cat cub is almost small enough to hold in one hand, but its discovery after 32,000 years is a momentous event for palaeontologists. It was around three weeks old when it died in what is now northeastern...
Nov 21, 2024
Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...
Nov 21, 2024
Scientists announce progress toward ambitious atlas of human cells
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand huma...
Nov 20, 2024
Technology News
Australia dumps plan for fines for social media giants enabling misinformation
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's government said on Sunday it had dropped plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online. The bill was part of a wide-ranging regulatory cra...
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China's Huawei aims 100,000 apps on Harmony OS in 6-12 months
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Huawei, blacklisted by the U.S., said on Saturday it is targeting 100,000 applications for its Harmony operating system in coming months as it seeks widespread help to achieve self-reliance. The tech giant has more than...
12h ago
Nvidia CEO Huang says 'the age of AI has started'
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told graduates and academics that "the age of AI has started" in a speech on Saturday, after receiving an honorary doctorate degree in engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science...
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US judge rejects SEC bid to sanction Elon Musk
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's request to sanction Elon Musk after he failed to appear for court-ordered testimony for the regulator's probe into his $44 billion takeover ...
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Chinese hackers preparing for conflict, says US cyber official
Chinese hackers are positioning themselves in U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a clash with the United States, a top American cybersecurity official said on Friday. Morgan Adamski, the executive director of U.S. Cyber Command, said ongoing ...
Nov 22, 2024
Entertainment News
Chinese films about COVID, gay romance win big at Taiwan awards
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Films from China about the COVID pandemic and a gay romance won major prizes on Saturday in Taiwan at the Golden Horse awards, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars. Unencumbered by the strict censorship of China, Ta...
5h ago
Rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs due in court seeking bail before sex-trafficking trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sean 'Diddy' Combs is due to return to court on Friday for a hearing over his bid to be released on $50-million bail from the Brooklyn jail where the music mogul has been held for 10 weeks ahead of his May 5, 2025 ...
Nov 22, 2024
Netflix set for biggest weekly gain since January after Paul-Tyson fight
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Netflix shares were on track for a fifth consecutive gain on Friday and set for their biggest weekly percentage rise since January, after the streaming media company's popular boxing match between Mike ...
Nov 22, 2024
Italy frets over fate of porn actor arrested in Egypt
By Claudia Cristoferi MILAN (Reuters) - The arrest of an Italian-Egyptian pornographic actor in Cairo is raising concern among officials in Italy, where feelings are still running high over the unresolved killing of student Giulio Regeni who was a...
Nov 22, 2024
'Wicked,' 'Gladiator 2' kick off box-office battle
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -"Wicked," the first installment in a two-part movie adaptation of a beloved Broadway musical, generated $19.2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales from early screenings this week, distributor Universal Pictu...
Nov 22, 2024