RAPID CITY, SD (KELO.com) -- He admits to using Artificial Intelligence to create child pornography. For that, 27-year-old Alex Badura of Rapid City will spend 12 years in prison. He used generative AI to create pornographic images of two 12-year-old relatives. Badura posted photos on social media with information tha...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says license plate readers are a powerful law enforcement tool, but public privacy needs protection. He plans to propose legislation to provide that protection. He cited this year's disappearance and death of 14-year-old McKenna Wendel as an investigation strength...

ANCHOR, IL (KELO.com) -- Conditions are tough, but farm families are finding a way to keep their operations going despite low commodity prices and high farm expenses. Grain prices remain below the break-even point. Despite that, Jim Eckert of Anchor State Bank in Illinois says farmers are finding a way to avoid problem...

GRANT COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- Grant County's only licensed childcare center is opening a third location due to high demand. Backyard Bulldogs Child Care director Kelsey Buttke says the first two centers are at capacity, and she's had to turn families away. The Grant County Development Corporation received a $75,000 g...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) --The driver who caused a deadly crash in 2024 is asking for a lighter sentence. Damion Laurelez took a plea deal in a case involving the death of two teenage passengers after he was found with alcohol and drugs in his system following the crash. The plea recommended no more than 30 years, ...

RAPID CITY, SD (KELO.com) -- He admits to using Artificial Intelligence to create child pornography. For that, 27-year-old Alex Badura of Rapid City will spend 12 years in prison. He used generative AI to create pornographic images of two 12-year-old relatives. Badura posted photos on social media with information tha...

GRANT COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- Grant County's only licensed childcare center is opening a third location due to high demand. Backyard Bulldogs Child Care director Kelsey Buttke says the first two centers are at capacity, and she's had to turn families away. The Grant County Development Corporation received a $75,000 g...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) --The driver who caused a deadly crash in 2024 is asking for a lighter sentence. Damion Laurelez took a plea deal in a case involving the death of two teenage passengers after he was found with alcohol and drugs in his system following the crash. The plea recommended no more than 30 years, ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A Pine Ridge man is facing 14 felony counts for a homicide in Sioux Falls in 2024. Robin Joseph Swallow is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. He is accused of beating a 64-year-old man to death near the intersection of 12th Street and Cleveland Avenue. The victim was identified as...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) --Two South Dakota Highway Patrol troopers are going viral after nearly being hit by lightning. The lightning strike was captured on body camera footage just feet away from the pair. A post on the South Dakota Highway Patrol Facebook page says the troopers were searching for a wanted man when th...

BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- The SDSU Jackrabbits are the football team to beat in the powerful Missouri Valley Conference this season. Coach Dan Jackson calls it a great honor, but he says preseason polls don't define the season. The Jacks won the conference in 2023 and 2024 when they were ranked number one in the pr...

MUSKEGON, MI (KELO.com) -- The Sioux falls Stampede Hockey Club go for it all Friday night. They're in Muskegon taking on the Lumberjacks in Game 3 of the Clark Cup Championship Finals. They have a 2 games to none lead in the 5-game series, and could make it a clean sweep.

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- One final honor for the 2026 USD Coyotes softball squad. They were ranked #19 in the final poll of the Softball America top-25 poll - their first time to make the list. The 'Yotes also made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Red takes on blue in South Dakota this November - and it has nothing to do with politics. The USD Coyote women's basketball team squares off against the Creighton Blue Jays at the Sanford Pentagon November 11th. Creighton has made four of the past five NCAA tournaments. USD played deep ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Webster native Logan Storley is the winner of this weekend's PFL Sioux Falls main event. He won in a unanimous decision at the Sanford Pentagon, taking his record to 19 & 4. With the win, Storley could be in the mix to be the next welterweight title challenger.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says license plate readers are a powerful law enforcement tool, but public privacy needs protection. He plans to propose legislation to provide that protection. He cited this year's disappearance and death of 14-year-old McKenna Wendel as an investigation strength...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Ranchers are dealing with thousands of dead cattle from heat stress during last month's heat wave. The National Weather Services says it was the second-hottest July on record in Rapid City and the warmest month on record throughout the contiguous United States. South Dakota State Universi...

ABERDEEN, S.D. (KELO.com) -- With Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Julian Beaudoin dropping out, Independent Candidate Brian Bengs is pushing for Republican votes to oust Senator Mike Rounds. That will be no easy task, as the two-term Governor and two term Senator has a loyal following. Bengs calls himself a Teddy Roos...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says South Dakota will seek further review of an Appeals Court ruling that prohibits the state from enforcing a new election law. The law moved the election-year filing deadline for ballot question petitions to nine months but was the subject of a lawsuit filed by...

PENNINGTON COUNTY, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Pennington County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man wanted by U.S. Marshals. They consider 35-year-old Keanu Dillon armed and dangerous. He is about five-foot-11 and weighs about 215 pounds. In a post on social media, the Pennington County Sheriff's Office says Dillon was...

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By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Salvors with specialist vessels and other equipment are heading to waters off Oman to try to contain the environmental damage from a spill of Russian crude that has spread for weeks, the risk ​management firm...

By Phil Stewart PANAMA CITY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that reports about poor conditions aboard aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East were "completely misrepresented." Two military-fo...

Aug 13 (Reuters) - Tourists and residents fled villages in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece by land and sea on Thursday as ​a wildfire fanned by strong winds engulfed ‌houses and trees near resorts during the heart of holiday season. People wear...

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday by the Trump administration that alleged that Harvard University failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment. U.S. District Judge Richard...

Aug 13 (Reuters) - Michigan on Thursday reported 13,909 cases linked to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an increase of roughly 11% from last week, as the state continued to account for the bulk of cases in the multi-state outbreak of the parasitic illne...