Category Archives: Local News
Local Halloween haunt adapts to pandemic
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com)--With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, local Halloween haunts have needed to change their operations. "Grandma Lu's Hallow" first began as a local haunted garage. Last...
Oct 30, 2021
Police Chief: Non-lethal force used during stand-off
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) - During Thursday's stand-off with police, multiple less-lethal rounds were used. Sioux Falls Police Chief Jon Thum says there is a misconception among the general public th...
Oct 29, 2021 Sioux Falls Police Chief Jon Thum at a press conference. KELO.com News file photo.
Local union complains about working conditions at Sioux Falls Smithfield plant
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Friday afternoon, officials with the union that represents workers at the Smithfield pork packing plant in Sioux Falls complained of working conditions. They say Smithf...
Oct 29, 2021 Smithfield and UFCW logos.
SFPD release genders, ages, and conditions of stabbing victims in officer-involved shooting
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Police release the ages and genders of the stabbing victims that triggered Thursday's standoff, then police shooting the suspect. The stabbing victims are a...
Oct 29, 2021 Sioux Falls Police Briefing graphic.
Firefighters rescue resident from burning home in Colton
COLTON, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Firefighters rescue a person from a house fire in Colton Friday morning. Minnehaha County Sheriff's Deputies and a number of local fire departments responded to the blaze. T...
Oct 29, 2021 House fire graphic.
Woman killed in Sioux Falls front-end loader accident
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Friday around 9:30 a.m., a 49-year-old woman died after she was struck by a front-end loader. That's according to the Sioux Falls Police Department. The accident happen...
Oct 29, 2021 Approximate location of fatal front-end loader accident from Google Maps.
South Dakota, Sioux Falls metro see another day-to-day drop in coronavirus cases
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- South Dakota and the Sioux Falls metro area saw another day-over-day decrease in coronavirus cases Thursday. South Dakota saw a 5% decrease in COVID cases to an average...
Oct 29, 2021 South Dakota coronavirus/COVID-19 graphic.
Man fatally shot in Sioux Falls standoff identified
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The man killed by law enforcement during a standoff in central Sioux Falls Thursday morning is Elwood Dwyer, 52. KELO.com News learned the man's name through a source w...
Oct 28, 2021 Sioux Falls Police patch and badge.
UPDATE: Suspect fatally shot in Sioux Falls standoff
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Authorities shot and killed a man who charged them during a standoff Thursday morning in the 400 block of North Garfield Avenue. That's according to Sioux Falls Police ...
Oct 28, 2021 SFPD public information officer Sam Clemens addresses the media at 10:30 a.m., 10/28/21 on the officer-involved shooting in the 400 block of N. Garfied.
SFPD: Police investigating fatal accident and multi-vehicle incident on I-229
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Accidents predominated Wednesday's Sioux Falls Police briefing. FATAL CRASH INVESTIGATION Sioux Falls Police are investigating a fatal one-vehicle accident Tuesday nigh...
Oct 27, 2021 Sioux Falls Police Briefing graphic.
