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Smithfield Foods, subcontractor fined $100,000 for COVID-19 violations in California
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, and a subcontractor face fines of more than $100,000 from California's workplace safety regulator for failing ...
Nov 16, 2020
Success predicted on second try for mask mandate
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls City Councilor Pat Starr predicts that Council will approve a mask mandate the second time around. He says the COVID-19 surge hasn't slowed down since the p...
Nov 16, 2020
Police arrest Sioux Falls man for burglary, rape, sexual assault, and drugs
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A man sits in jail after breaking into an apartment Friday and sexually assaulting the woman who lived there. The incident happened near the 200 block of West 14th Stre...
Nov 16, 2020 David von Diemar / Unsplash
Sioux Falls man scammed out of $550,000
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Police are investigating a fraud that scammed a man out of $550,000 in cash and gift cards. Police say the scammers said they were with the IRS and the 82-y...
Nov 16, 2020 EpicTop10.com / CC
Sioux Falls reconsidering COVID-19 business restrictions
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) --Sioux Falls is considering re-starting coronavirus restrictions on local businesses as the pandemic continues to worsen in the area. City Councilors Janet Brekke and Pat...
Nov 16, 2020 COVID-19 update graphic.
Authorities lookout for a vehicle involved in hit and run
LINCOLN COUNTY, SD, (KELO.com) -- Authorities are investigating a hit-and-run crash on Highway 11 and 273rd Street. The crash happened early this morning. The suspect was driving a Chevy truck/SUV wit...
Nov 15, 2020
Sioux Falls man sentenced for distribution of meth
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A Sioux Falls man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on November 9. Gabriel Orlando Ramirez, a/k/a "Cheech," age 43, was sentenc...
Nov 15, 2020 Clyde Robinson / CC
Bishop Dudley House marks Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- November Marks Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month. At the Bishop Dudley Hospitality House in Sioux Falls Director, Madeline Shields says, "We acknowledge the hundr...
Nov 14, 2020 Courtesy Bishop Dudley Hospitality House.
Victim loses $1,700 after wallet stolen
SIOUX FALLS, SD, (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Police are investigating the theft of a wallet that was taken from a shopper. The victim said they were distracted by another shopper while someone else grab...
Nov 13, 2020
Lock your vehicles
SIOUX FALLS, SD, (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Police Department wants to remind people to lock their cars now that the cold weather is setting in. Officials say that now that winter is here, people a...
Nov 13, 2020 Tyler Silvest / CC
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