MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Mitchell man has been found guilty of two counts of First-Degree Rape involving children under 13 years old. Eric Mark Opperman, 48, entered a change of plea on Thursday in Davison County Circuit Court, after which he was found guilty. ...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- This is Free Fishing weekend in South Dakota. No license will be required throughout the weekend. There's also free entry into state parks. The weekend is free, but all fishing and boating regulations still apply - including daily possession limits.

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- The three eaglets featured on the Minnesota DNR's EagleCam don't look much like chicks anymore. They're an estimated eight weeks old, and are almost at their full adult size. All three a healthy females that were banded by the DNR this week, and will begin flying in a few more weeks.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are asking for your help in solving a copper wiring theft that included significant vandalism. Numerous light poles were pried open along the bike trail north of Falls Park, in an attempt to steal the wiring. The value of the stolen wire and the damage to the light pol...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Construction is beginning on Fire Station 13 in Sioux Falls, near the site of the new Smithfield Plant in Foundation Park. Ground was broken for the project yesterday. The area has seen major expansion with the industrial park, as well as surrounding Southeast Technical College and new h...

MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Mitchell man has been found guilty of two counts of First-Degree Rape involving children under 13 years old. Eric Mark Opperman, 48, entered a change of plea on Thursday in Davison County Circuit Court, after which he was found guilty. ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are asking for your help in solving a copper wiring theft that included significant vandalism. Numerous light poles were pried open along the bike trail north of Falls Park, in an attempt to steal the wiring. The value of the stolen wire and the damage to the light pol...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Construction is beginning on Fire Station 13 in Sioux Falls, near the site of the new Smithfield Plant in Foundation Park. Ground was broken for the project yesterday. The area has seen major expansion with the industrial park, as well as surrounding Southeast Technical College and new h...

SALEM, SD (KELO.com) -- The former mayor of Centerville will spend the rest of his life in prison. Jay Ostrem was given three life sentences without parole. He was convicted in March in the shooting deaths of Paul and Zachary Frankus and Timothy Richmond. Ostrem was Centerville's Mayor from 2009 to 2011, and also se...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Start making plans now for a major street closing in east Sioux Falls. Arrowhead Parkway will be closed between Veterans Parkway and Highline Avenue starting next Thursday. It will allow crews to reconstruct the west side of the Arrowhead and Veterans Parkway intersection. The project is...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- This is Free Fishing weekend in South Dakota. No license will be required throughout the weekend. There's also free entry into state parks. The weekend is free, but all fishing and boating regulations still apply - including daily possession limits.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's new Health Department Workforce and Education Center will be up and running next week. The 70-million dollar facility in Pierre is in the final stages of construction. Health Secretary Melissa Magstadt says the state lab conducted nearly 150-thousand lab tests over the past yea...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- The first class of Freedom Scholarship graduates will receive their diplomas this weekend. The students are the first to have received scholarship help all four years of College. In exchange, they have agreed to live and work in South Dakota for at least three years after graduating. The Legisl...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- A Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement training center will be opening in North Dakota, despite calls for it to be located in South Dakota. Attorney General Marty Jackley advocated for a regional academy in South Dakota for years. He calls the North Dakota location a step in the right direct...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- We're moving closer to another election-related deadline. If you want to vote in the June 2nd combined primary and local elections, you need to be registered by May 18th. You can find information on registering at the Secretary of State's website.

CANNES, France, May 17 (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Kristen Stewart's latest role in "Full Phil," an absurdist comedy about a father and ​daughter navigating a strained relationship amid ‌an endless stream of French cuisine, proved physically demanding ...

By David Hood-Nuño and Julio-Cesar Chavez WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - A Trump administration-backed celebration of U.S. religious heritage on Sunday is highlighting conservative Christian leaders' ties to the president as critics say the gathering d...

By Nate Raymond May 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to preserve mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone marked the latest time that the nation's top judicial body has reined in an even more right-leaning appeals court, one nestle...

By Danielle Kaye NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Gucci's creative director Demna presented his first Cruise collection for the Italian luxury brand on Saturday night in New York, transforming Times Square into a runway as owner Kering seeks ​to revive its...

By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, D.C., May 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate official on Saturday removed security funding that could be used for President Donald Trump's planned $400 million White House ballroom from a massive spending package, Democratic...

May 17 (Reuters) - Cuba has acquired more than 300 military ​drones and recently ‌began discussing plans to use them to attack the U.S. base ‌at ​Guantanamo Bay, ⁠U.S. military ⁠vessels and possibly Key West, Florida, 90 miles north of Havana, ​Axios r...

BANGKOK, May 17 (Reuters) - Thai police have charged a train driver with negligence after a crash on Saturday in central Bangkok in ​which a freight train collided with ‌a public bus at a rail crossing, killing eight people and injuring 32. "The train ...

JERUSALEM, May 17 (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to build a defence compound on the site of the recently demolished premises of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ​in East Jerusalem. Israel in January demolished structur...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, May 17 (Reuters) - At least 17 police officers were killed in Nigeria's northeast Yobe state after suspected Islamist militants attacked a specialised ​military school that also trains police officers, the ‌national police spoke...

LE CAIRE, 17 mai (Reuters) - Des frappes israéliennes ont tué au moins quatre personnes dans la bande de ​Gaza dimanche, a-t-on appris de ‌responsables de santé. Des médecins ont rapporté qu'une frappe israélienne avait tué un Palestinien près d'un pos...

JERUSALEM, May 17 (Reuters) - Israel's economy contracted at an annualised rate of 3.3% in the first ​three months of 2026, the ‌Central Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday, as the war against Iran weighed on output. The decline was not as severe ‌as ​...

By Suzanne McGee PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 17 (Reuters) - Investors are warning that lofty U.S. stock markets have not yet priced in the risk of rocketing inflation and are vulnerable to a sharp spike in bond yields. Equity markets have been propel...

SEOUL, May 17 (Reuters) - South Korea will pursue all options, including emergency arbitration, to avoid a labour strike at the country's biggest employer Samsung Electronics and to ​minimise any damage if one does occur, its prime ‌minister said on Su...

May 16 (Reuters) - The Venezuelan government will retain power to set royalty and tax rates for private and foreign investors in oil and gas projects on ​a project-by-project basis under draft regulations of a ‌new hydrocarbons law seen by Reuters on S...

May 16 (Reuters) - BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's initial public offering ​next month, the Information ‌news outlet reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is targeting a raise of ab...

By Philip O'Connor May 17 (Reuters) - It was almost ten years in the making, but Ronda Rousey finally got to end her storied mixed martial arts career the way she deserved with a 17-second win over Gina Carano, nailing ​her signature armbar submission ...

Rasmus Dahlin tied a franchise postseason record with five points (one goal, four assists) and Tage Thompson posted one goal and three assists to pace the visiting Buffalo Sabres to a 8-3 comeback victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, forcin...

Cristopher Sanchez struck out a career-high 13 in his second career shutout to guide the visiting Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday. Bryce Harper hit a mammoth three-run homer and Trea Turner went 2-for-4 w...

By Philip O'Connor May 16 (Reuters) - Former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion Conor McGregor will make his long-awaited return to the UFC octagon on July 11 in Las Vegas, ​UFC President Dana White announced during Saturday night's UFC ‌card...

INGLEWOOD, California, May 17 (Reuters) - Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey came roaring out of the traps in her first mixed martial arts fight in almost a decade, securing her trademark armbar submission in the opening ​seconds to defeat Gina Carano on...

By Disha Mishra and Akanksha Khushi May 17 (Reuters) - An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation, after 80 suspected deaths and...

By Nate Raymond May 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to preserve mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone marked the latest time that the nation's top judicial body has reined in an even more right-leaning appeals court, one nestle...

By Disha Mishra and Akanksha Khushi May 17 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a "public health emergency of international concern", posing risks to neighbouring ...

NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - A Kansas judge has temporarily blocked a law banning gender-transition treatments for minors in the state. State District Judge Carl Folsom III granted an ​injunction requested by the parents of two teenagers who ‌want to c...

TORONTO, May 16 (Reuters) - British Columbia's government said on Saturday one Canadian tested positive for hantavirus after leaving a luxury cruise ​ship hit by an outbreak of the ‌Andes strain of the virus. The individual, who was tested at a hospita...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Reuters) - NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and a planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft on its final course to the solar system's largest known metallic asteroid, though...

By Sayed Sheasha LUXOR, Egypt, May 14 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Thursday exhibited a plaster blocking wall of King Tutankhamun's tomb in Luxor and unveiled two restored ancient tombs on the West Bank of the city that ​date back to the New Kin...

By Will Dunham May 14 (Reuters) - Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due ...

By Will Dunham May 13 (Reuters) - About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the lower jaw. That tooth has now been discovered inside a Siberian cave, bearing signs of dental s...

May 12 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google on Tuesday said it has been in discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX and others regarding future launches for ​its Project Suncatcher, an orbital data center ‌project. Google is pushing the space-based data center ide...

May 16 (Reuters) - Tata Electronics and ASML on Saturday signed an agreement to build India's first front-end semiconductor fabrication plant in the state ​of Gujarat, as the country accelerates efforts ‌to develop a domestic chip industry. The Dutch c...

By Akanksha Khushi and Gnaneshwar Rajan May 17 (Reuters) - Global data centre operator DayOne is considering a dual initial public offering in Singapore ​and the U.S., though the Singapore plans ‌are not concrete at this stage, a source familiar with t...

SEOUL, May 17 (Reuters) - South Korea will pursue all options, including emergency arbitration, to avoid a labour strike at the country's biggest employer Samsung Electronics and to ​minimise any damage if one does occur, its prime ‌minister said on Su...

May 16 (Reuters) - BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's initial public offering ​next month, the Information ‌news outlet reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is targeting a raise of ab...

May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI said on Saturday it had ​signed a deal ‌with the government of Malta to give all residents access to its ChatGPT Plus service ‌for ​one year after ⁠they follow a ⁠course on how to use AI. •...

ATHENS, May 17 (Reuters) - Bulgarians celebrated on Sunday their country's surprise first win in the Eurovision Song Contest as they prepared to welcome home Dara ​who triumphed with her catchy, crowd-pleasing, optimistic dance ‌track "Bangaranga". Pri...

By Miranda Murray CANNES, France, May 16 (Reuters) - Austrian director Marie Kreutzer recalled on Saturday it was difficult to make her Cannes Film Festival entry "Gentle Monster," a family drama about ​the fallout from an investigation into child sexu...

By Lisa Leutner VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) - You will barely notice them on television, but a small band of stage hands nicknamed "ninjas" at the Eurovision Song Contest perform a feat ​as impressive as those on stage: swapping out countries' ‌sets in th...

VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) - Austria hosts the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on Saturday, which this year has been marked by the boycott of five countries protesting the participation of Israel. WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? It is...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) - Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time on Saturday in a final overshadowed by five countries' boycott over Gaza, claiming a dramatic victory despite another big public vote for Israel t...