Category Archives: Local News

Flandreau man sentenced for distributing deadly dose of fentanyl
FLANDREAU, SD (KELO.com) -- He admits to selling a deadly dose of fentanyl. 27 year old Jeremy Simon of Flandreau will spend the next 20 years in federal prison as a result. Simon purchased the deadly...
Tom Rooney Jun 19, 2024 Jeff Anderson / CC

Sioux Falls man sentenced to Federal prison for prostitution
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- 27 years in prison for forcing a woman to engage in prostitution. That's what 34-year old Odarie Massiah of Sioux Falls is facing. U-S Attorney Alison Ramsdell says Massi...
Tom Rooney Jun 19, 2024 U.S. Attorney's Office seal.

Sioux Falls sales tax revenues still below projections; budget reserves strong
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The city of Sioux Falls is about to enter its budget season. As it does, city finance officials say sales tax revenues are on the rise. City Finance Officer Shawn Prichet...
Tom Rooney Jun 19, 2024

Two adults, two juveniles charged in kidnapping
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Two juveniles and two adults are facing kidnapping charges following an incident Saturday night. Police Information Officer Sam Clemens says it began when a man and a wom...
Tom Rooney Jun 17, 2024

Key to breaking U-S addiction to meth starts at home
OMAHA, NE (KELO.com) -- Fentanyl gets most of the headlines, but meth is by far the drug of choice among drug users. The U-S Sentencing Commission says meth makes up about half of all drug-trafficking...
Tom Rooney Jun 17, 2024

SDSU gets major medical grant
BROOKINGS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It's a big award for a growing program. The medical laboratory science program at South Dakota State University has received a $750,000 award from the Association of Publ...
Rich Keller Jun 15, 2024

Two men arrested for arson in early morning fires in Harrisburg
HARRISBURG, SD (KELO.com) -- Two men are facing arson charges following fires at a Harrisburg business at about one this morning. Lincoln County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a call and doused a bur...
Tom Rooney Jun 14, 2024 Image Courtesy: Lincoln County Sheriff's Office

Street racing causes fatal accident
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Another stark warning from Sioux Falls police - street racing is not only illegal, it is sometimes deadly. That was the case in the fatal motorcycle accident on the city'...
Tom Rooney Jun 14, 2024

Annual mosquito campaign off to good start in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Good news on the mosquito front as we head into summer. Even though it's been a wet spring, the number of mosquitoes caught in city traps in Sioux Falls is down from past...
Tom Rooney Jun 13, 2024

Sioux Falls School Board moves forward with plans to replace Whittier Middle School
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- "Out with the old and in with the new" will take on extra meaning for the Whittier Middle School neighborhood in Sioux Falls. The School Board voted unanimously to replac...
Tom Rooney Jun 13, 2024 Sioux Falls School District logo.


