USD inks Nielson through 2027 season
VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- University of South Dakota athletic director Jon Schemmel announced Wednesday a four-year contract extension for head football coach Bob Nielson through the 2027 season. The 2023 season was the team's most successful at the division I level, tallying ten wins, hosting two home playoff game...
May 08, 2024
Petition drives come to an end
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Today marks the deadline for submitting petitions to place measures on the November ballot in South Dakota. The Open Primaries group filed over 46-thousand signatures yesterday. The proposed constitutional amendment calls for one primary listing all candidates for certain offices, with the to...
May 07, 2024
Safer firefighting foam from new soybean product
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The latest product from the humble soybean is boasting big benefits for the environment, farmers and firefighters. Cross Plains Solutions has created SoyFoam, which is an effective fire suppressant. Unlike similar products that have been used for decades, it doesn't contain harmful PFA's...
May 07, 2024
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Grants for grads to help with housing down-payments
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- It's called "Grants for Grads", and it's designed to attract more workers to South Dakota. Brent Adney, director of homeownership programs with the State Housing Development Authority, says the agency is reviving the program, which was also offered several years ago. The state hopes ...
May 07, 2024
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Fentanyl Awareness Day: "You only get one chance"
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by fentanyl. Angela Kennecke's daughter Emily was among those victims six years ago. Following her daughter's death, Kenneck founded Emily's Hope, a non-profit agency that warns people of the dangers of fentanyl, and tries to protect those ...
May 07, 2024
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Governor spends weekend defending new book
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Governor Kristi Noem spent at least part of the weekend defending her new book. She appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation", where she was questioned about a reportedly false claim that she met with North Korean Dictator Kim Jung Un. The book - "No Going Back" - is set to relea...
May 06, 2024
Importance of cyber security growing
MADISON, SD (KELO.com) -- It isn't a new issue, but it's becoming more important by the day. Data privacy and security was the focus of a Round Table discussion at Dakota State University, hosted by Senator John Thune. The challenge of keeping data safe has been on the mind of SDSU professor Michael Adelaine for deca...
May 06, 2024
DWU students get hands on experience in generating economic report
MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- A new economic report is giving Dakota Wesleyan University students a valuable life experience. The students helped develop a new economic report that will be valuable to economic developers. There's no shortage of information to be researched, but Professor Dr. Tracy Dice says one big chal...
May 06, 2024
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Sioux Falls woman targeted by scam
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It started with a pop-up that said her computer had a problem. It ended with 58-thousand dollars lost to scam artists. The Sioux Falls woman was told she was accused of money laundering. Police Information Officer Sam Clemens says she followed instructions and withdrew the money from se...
May 06, 2024
Noem's "tall tale" about "short dictator" proven false
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Kristi Noem's new tome is a battleground between fact and fiction. The Governor's camp is attempting to clarify the circumstances around two alleged interactions with foreign leaders that she writes about in her forthcoming book, "No Going Back." The truth of those incidents - a can...
May 04, 2024
New home buying program aimed to keep college grads in South Dakota
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It's an initiative to stem the tide of South Dakota's "brain drain." South Dakota Housing has introduced a new initiative to assist recent graduates in purchasing their first home in South Dakota. The program is open to those who have not owned a home in the past three years, purcha...
May 04, 2024
South Dakota gets funding to get the lead out
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- Lead drinking water pipes are on their way out. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has committed millions of dollars to South Dakota and five other states to identify and replace lead service lines, thereby preventing exposure to lead in drinking water. This funding is part of Presi...
May 04, 2024
Officers justified in shooting suspect
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley says Sioux Falls police officers were justified in shooting a man last month. Police were trying to serve a mental health detention warrant for Daniel McKillip. He refused to comply and armed himself with two knives. McKillip survived the shooting and was ...
May 03, 2024
Senator Thune: How did we get to this point?
WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) -- Senator John Thune is adding his voice to those condemning anti-Semitic protests on college campuses across the country. Thune says the actions of the protesters sound like the rantings heard in 1930's Germany. Thune is among a number of Republican Senators calling on the administration to...
May 03, 2024
Firearms search warrant reveals possible bomb making operation
FLORENCE, SD (KELO.com) -- Three people have been arrested following the discovery of a possible bomb-making operation in Codington County. John Felice was arrested Friday. Christopher and Katelyn Gamble were arrested Thursday on drug, firearms, explosives and child abuse charges. The discovery of the bomb-making op...
May 03, 2024
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South Dakota economy leads the region
OMAHA, NE (KELO.com) -- Our regional economy is stuck in neutral,but South Dakota continues to shine. The April "Mid-America Business Conditions Index" from Creighton University bounced to its best reading since last September, but it's barely into positive territory. Higher interest rates are holding the e...
May 02, 2024
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Minnehaha County Republican delegates replaced by state party
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Allegations of back-room deals by the state republican party. Minnehaha County's delegates to the Republican National Convention were elected at a recent meeting, but state party officials have rejected the candidates and replaced them. Initially, State GOP Chair John Wiik said the repla...
May 02, 2024
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Abortion petitions filed - legal challenge on the way
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- More than 55-thousand petition signatures have been turned in on a proposed Constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights in South Dakota, but a legal challenge is on the way. Jon Hansen, Co-Chair of the Life Defense Fund - a group opposed to the amendment - says one of the things they'v...
May 02, 2024
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Cruthers returns to Sioux Falls as Stampede's new head coach
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Stampede is excited to announce the hiring of Ryan Cruthers as the team's newest Head Coach. Cruthers joins the Stampede as the tenth Head Coach in team history after spending the last year at the helm of the Fayetteville Marksmen of the Southern Professional Hockey League...
Apr 30, 2024
Higher education opportunity for former prisoners
BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- You could consider it a second chance powered by higher education. South Dakota State University was awarded a three-year, 150-thousand dollar grant by the Mellon foundation's Higher Education in Prison program. The effort is being led by Vice-Provost, Dr. Victor Taylor. He says it's pers...
Apr 30, 2024
Witness gives his account of deadly accident
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are still working on the investigation into the deadly weekend crash that killed two teenagers, and probably will be working on it for several weeks. In the meantime they're relying on clips from neighborhood surveillance cameras - and witnesses like Steve Blumke who sa...
Apr 30, 2024
Two teens die in tragic crash
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It was the most catastrophic accident he's seen in 17 years of police work. Sioux Falls Police Lieutenant Andrew Siebenborn arrived shortly after a deadly crash that killed two young teenagers at about 6 Saturday morning at 18th and Second Avenue. The crash took the lives of two 15 year o...
Apr 30, 2024
NFL draft selects four with South Dakota ties
DETROIT, MI (KELO.com) -- Several of South Dakota's best are headed to the NFL to pursue their gridiron dreams. O'Gorman High School alum tight end Tip Reiman was selected 82nd overall in the NFL draft this weekend by the Arizona Cardinals. Two SDSU Jackrabbits were drafted Saturday. Offensive lineman Mason McCormic...
Apr 29, 2024
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Two juveniles killed in Sioux Falls crash
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- An early Saturday morning crash has killed two juveniles. At 6 am a Dodge Durango SUV lost control and collided with a tree and a house at the intersection of East 18th Street and 2nd Avenue. There were at least 7 juveniles in the vehicle, with two pronounced dead at the scene and 5 take...
Apr 27, 2024
Noem under fire for treatment of puppy
PIERRE, S. D. (KELO.com) -- Governor Kristi Noem is raising the ire of animal lovers. In her soon to be published book "No Going Back", Noem recounts her killing of a 14-month-old puppy named Cricket that killed neighbors chickens, ruined a hunting trip and tried to bite her. She then shot Cricket dead in a g...
Apr 27, 2024