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Sioux Falls police investigate morning shooting
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Police are investigating a shooting incident that took place at about 9 am Thursday morning. Sergeant Travis Olsen says there isn't much information available yet. Sergeant Olsen says there's no danger to the public, as the other person involved in the incident is in contact w...
Dec 26, 2024
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"Trump bump" in November leads to December slide
OMAHA, NE (KELO.com) -- Our regional economy is giving us a bit of a roller coaster ride. Creighton University's monthly Rural Mainstreet Index went from positive in November to negative this month. Economist Dr. Ernie Goss says the numbers were affected by the election. South Dakota's results mirrored the overall su...
Dec 26, 2024
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City Council keeping options open on Riverline District, but moving forward on land purchase
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- If you live in Sioux Falls, you'll probably be called to the voting booth in the next year or so to determine the fate of this so-called Riverline District in downtown Sioux Falls. That property currently holds the old Sears building just east of downtown. The city council approved an ei...
Dec 26, 2024
Regents preparing to tighten belt to deal with budget cuts
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota lawmakers are are heading into a bit of a perfect storm in a few weeks. Federal money is drying up, sales tax revenues are down, and a lot of new faces will be looking for answers in a tight budget year. Like all state departments, the Board of Regents will have to get by on a sm...
Dec 26, 2024
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Will Trump pardon South Dakota rioters?
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 ...
Dec 21, 2024
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Sioux Falls police investigate morning shooting
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Police are investigating a shooting incident that took place at about 9 am Thursday morning. Sergeant Travis Olsen says there isn't much information available yet. Sergeant Olsen says there's no danger to the public, as the other person involved in the incident is in contact w...
Dec 26, 2024
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City Council keeping options open on Riverline District, but moving forward on land purchase
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- If you live in Sioux Falls, you'll probably be called to the voting booth in the next year or so to determine the fate of this so-called Riverline District in downtown Sioux Falls. That property currently holds the old Sears building just east of downtown. The city council approved an ei...
Dec 26, 2024
Will Trump pardon South Dakota rioters?
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 ...
Dec 21, 2024
Woman killed in Sioux Falls hit and run
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...
Dec 14, 2024
The Iceman Cometh
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...
Dec 14, 2024
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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
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Regents preparing to tighten belt to deal with budget cuts
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota lawmakers are are heading into a bit of a perfect storm in a few weeks. Federal money is drying up, sales tax revenues are down, and a lot of new faces will be looking for answers in a tight budget year. Like all state departments, the Board of Regents will have to get by on a sm...
Dec 26, 2024
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South Dakota's Senators gaining prominence
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...
Dec 21, 2024
Police use of force justified for Yankton officers
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 ...
Dec 21, 2024
South Dakota Teacher heads to Antarctica
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...
Dec 14, 2024
Native American absenteeism soars in SD classrooms
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...
Dec 09, 2024
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Toxic waste from India's 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy site moved for disposal after 40 years
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a disposal facility where it will...
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Factbox-What is Islamic State, the group implicated in the New Orleans attack?
By Michael Georgy and Tala Ramadan (Reuters) - The radical Islamic State group, which once imposed a reign of terror over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, has been implicated in the truck attack on a New Orleans crowd, which killed 15 people a...
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Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 strikes Cobb, California, USGS says
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 struck Cobb in northern California on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake was at a depth of 1.1 Km (0.68 mile), the USGS said. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; ...
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Factbox-What we know so far about the New Orleans truck attack victims
By Gram Slattery (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed and 30 were injured after a U.S. Army veteran with an ISIS flag on his truck swerved around makeshift barriers and plowed into revelers in New Orleans' crowded French Quarter on New Year's Day...
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Biden says investigators looking for links between New Orleans attack, Las Vegas incident
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday law enforcement is investigating whether there are any links between a New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 people and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel Las Vegas. ...
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