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Authorities ask for help in locating violent offender
ROBERTS COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) -- Authorities are on the look out for a man they say committed a violent robbery in Roberts County, and may be headed to the Sioux Falls area. The Roberts County Sheriff...
Jun 06, 2025 Photo Courtesy: KWAT
Courthouse arrest by ICE causes mistrial in Minnehaha County
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Minnehaha County Public Defender's Office is sounding the alarm over public trust in the justice system. That follows a mistrial declared last Friday after an ICE arr...
Jun 05, 2025 Minnehaha County Courthouse. Photo from ujs.sd.gov.
Penitentiary staff head off delivery of contraband to inmates
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota Corrections Department says staff has foiled an attempt to smuggle contraband into the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Corrections Secretary Kelly Was...
Jun 05, 2025 Steve Mays / CC
Early design on Frank Olson pool replacement released
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls City Council got a peek at early design work for the new Frank Olson pool and recreation center. Parks and Recreation Director Don Kearney says the projec...
Jun 04, 2025
Mosquito season about to make its presence known
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The annual war against summer public enemy number one is about to begin in Sioux Falls. City Public Health Program Manager Jaime Roggenbauer says workers will be out in f...
Jun 04, 2025 A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito is seen on the skin of a human host in this 2014 picture from the Center for Disease Control. REUTERS/CDC/James Gathany
Sioux Falls woman indicted on grand theft charge
WATERTOWN, SD (KELO.com) -- A Sioux Falls woman has been indicted on a Grand Theft charge, for allegedly taking unauthorized control of money from 16 different victims. 67-year old Margaret Spears-Ped...
Jun 04, 2025 vladek / Depositphotos.com
Early morning gas station shooting leaves man in critical condition
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A 24 year old man is hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in Sioux Falls early Tuesday morning. It happened at a gas station near 24th and Minnesota Avenue...
Jun 03, 2025 OpenFinalG / Depositphotos.com
SWAT teams involved in search warrant; Kiwanis Avenue closed
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Part of Kiwanis Avenue was closed Monday evening as Sioux Falls Police executed a search warrant. Police and Sheriff's Department SWAT teams were involved in the operatio...
Jun 03, 2025 SWAT near 13th Street and Garfield at standoff, 10/28/21. KELO.com News photo by Liz Ryan.
Area accidents claim two lives
HUMBOLDT, SD (KELO.com) -- A man is dead and a woman hospitalized following an early Saturday morning accident at the intersection of Highways 19 and 38 at Humboldt. The vehicle failed to stop at the ...
Jun 03, 2025 Fatal accident graphic.
Townhome fire displaces several families
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- An early morning fire displaced several people from their homes in central Sioux Falls Friday morning, but thankfully, there weren't any serious injuries. A number of Tow...
May 30, 2025 Sioux Falls Fire Rescue emblem.
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