SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls city officials are looking for ways to get the public more involved in city business. There are over 30 committees and boards in city government. Council Chair Rich Merkouris says plans are coming together to make community involvement less confusing, "Everybody's in agr...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A Sioux Falls man faces life in prison for the rape and human trafficking of a female family member. Leon Siess was sentenced Tuesday on multiple counts, including sexual abuse over a ten year period that started when the girl was about ten years old. The victim is now 26. She asked the...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Addiction feeds into South Dakota's crime problem, and the state's two largest cities have made major efforts to attack it, but both say they need more help. Sioux Falls was granted $100-thousand from opioid settlement money in recent days, while Rapid City received $600-thousand. Both w...

ST. PAUL, MN (KELO.com) -- The Trump Administration has won a court battle over withholding Medicaid Funds from Minnesota. The state asked a judge to prevent the administration from withholding $250-billion in Medicaid funds because of fraud. Vice President J.D. Vance says the money will be reinstated when Minnesota ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls School District has named members of a new task force to guide planning for new school facilities. ClickRain CEO Natalie Eisenberg, Realtor Tony Erickson and Micki Lundin of Avera Marketing will co-chair the group. They'll focus on replacing Whittier Middle School in the ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls city officials are looking for ways to get the public more involved in city business. There are over 30 committees and boards in city government. Council Chair Rich Merkouris says plans are coming together to make community involvement less confusing, "Everybody's in agr...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A Sioux Falls man faces life in prison for the rape and human trafficking of a female family member. Leon Siess was sentenced Tuesday on multiple counts, including sexual abuse over a ten year period that started when the girl was about ten years old. The victim is now 26. She asked the...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Addiction feeds into South Dakota's crime problem, and the state's two largest cities have made major efforts to attack it, but both say they need more help. Sioux Falls was granted $100-thousand from opioid settlement money in recent days, while Rapid City received $600-thousand. Both w...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls School District has named members of a new task force to guide planning for new school facilities. ClickRain CEO Natalie Eisenberg, Realtor Tony Erickson and Micki Lundin of Avera Marketing will co-chair the group. They'll focus on replacing Whittier Middle School in the ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls is hoping to save $6.2-million by refinancing the Sanford Premier Center and the City Center. Combined, the two bonds have a remaining balance of more than $71-million. The proposal would merge the two into one new bond, which would be paid off a year earlier than expected.

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- Cattlemen helping cattlemen. The South Dakota Cattlemen's Foundation is launching an effort to support Nebraska ranchers dealing with wildfires. Those fires have destroyed grazing land, feed and infrastructure. The Foundation is matching donations up to a total of ten-thousand dollars to help c...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota Department of Corrections is trying to get a handle on the state's high number of repeat prison offenders. The DOC has signed a 160-thousand dollar contract to provide support to the Governor's Correctional Rehab Task for for the next year. The state has also applied for a fe...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- Do hyper scale data centers and higher electric rates go hand-in-hand? Data Center opponents often site that as a major concern, but studies question if there's a relationship between the two. Creighton University Economist Dr. Ernie Goss says a study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows just...

CUSTER STATE PARK, SD (KELO.com) -- The first bison calf of the season has been born in Custer State Park. Park staff posted a photo of the calf and mom on social media. The park is home to a wide range of wildlife, including burros, elk, coyotes - and of course - bison.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- The South Dakota public employee retirement system is falling behind inflation again this year for the sixth straight year. Managers expect a cost of living adjustment in 2027 of just over 1 1/2-percent. There are more than 105-thousand members in the system, which provides benefits for teac...

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump wants to see the Strait of Hormuz ​open up for oil tankers ‌and other traffic without any limitations, including tolls, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesda...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will try again next week to pass a resolution to halt the Iran war and force President Donald Trump to obtain Congress' approval for ​any further attacks, Senate Democratic Leader Chuc...

By Nolan D. McCaskill and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi does not plan to appear for a planned interview with a House of Representatives committee on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files ​fol...

By Jonathan Stempel April 8 (Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Berkshire Hathaway's PacifiCorp unit over a series of Oregon wildfires in 2020, saying a trial judge erred in letting litigation against the utility proceed as a cl...

By Chris Prentice NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped David Woodcock, a Gibson Dunn lawyer and former agency official, to be its next enforcement director after the regulator's top cop abruptly quit last...

CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed four people on Wednesday, including an Al Jazeera journalist, local health authorities said and the Qatari television network reported. The strike that killed Al Jazeera's Muhammad ...

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is dispatching ​his Iran negotiating ‌team, led by Vice President JD Vance, to Pakistan, White House ‌press ​secretary Karoline ⁠Leavitt said ⁠on Wednesday, adding that the first round of talk...

By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI, April 8 (Reuters) - Nearly six weeks of war in Iran have ended, for now, with President Donald Trump claiming victory, but the U.S.-Iran ceasefire locks in a harsh reality: an entrenched, radical government with control over the...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will try again next week to pass a resolution to halt the Iran war and force President Donald Trump to obtain Congress' approval for ​any further attacks, Senate Democratic Leader Chuc...

By Daniela Desantis and Brendan O'Boyle ASUNCION, April 8 (Reuters) - Panama's top diplomat on Wednesday said a rise in inspections and detentions of Panama-flagged vessels in China stemmed from a Panama ​court ruling against Hong Kong-based CK Hutchis...

By Ernest Scheyder April 8 (Reuters) - A deep-sea mining firm led by former Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese will merge with Odyssey Marine Exploration in a $1 billion all-stock deal aimed at building one of the world's largest portfolios of underwater mine...

April 8 (Reuters) - Lufthansa faces a one-day strike this week, the airline's third labor disruption in two months. The cabin crew union UFO has called on ​staff at the core Lufthansa brand and its ‌feeder airline Cityline to hold a one-day strike on F...

By Jonathan Stempel April 8 (Reuters) - An appeals court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Berkshire Hathaway's PacifiCorp unit over a series of Oregon wildfires in 2020, saying a trial judge erred in letting litigation against the utility proceed as a cl...

By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) - Citigroup is using artificial intelligence to speed up account openings and the retirement of old software, the U.S. bank's head of technology, Tim Ryan, said, as the ​firm pushes to improve productivity...

April 8 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model from a costly team it assembled last year to catch up with rivals in the AI race. Shares of the company extended gains to ​trade up nearly 7%....

Virginia head coach Tony Elliott agreed to a contract extension that spans through the 2030 season, the university announced ​Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed for ‌Elliott, who guided the Cavaliers to a school-record 11 wins last season f...

Augusta National Golf Club is not reticent to making changes to adapt to the current times, and neither should the sport's governing bodies be when it comes to regulation of the golf ball. That was the sentiment of ANGC chairman Fred S. Ridley in his ...

The Mariners placed outfielder Victor Robles on the 10-day injured list Wednesday ​with a right ‌pectoral strain. Seattle called up infielder/outfielder Connor Joe from Triple-A Tacoma and transferred right-hander Carlos Vargas ‌from ​the 15-day to ⁠t...

Washington Capitals superstar captain Alex Ovechkin, the NHL's all-time leader in goals, said he will wait until the offseason to decide if he'll continue his ​playing career. Ovechkin, 40, is playing in his 21st ‌NHL season. The 2018 Stanley Cup cham...

The Philadelphia Union signed homegrown defender Nathan Harriel to a new contract on ​Wednesday. The 24-year-old U.S. Men's ‌National Team player is under contract through 2028-29 with an option for 2029-30. "Nate has established himself as ‌an ​esse...

April 8 (Reuters) - AbbVie has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, seeking clearer guidance on patients eligible for a drug discount program. Under the 340B ​program, drugmakers are required to supply medicines at ‌significantly reduced prices...

April 8 (Reuters) - Steve Ubl, the chief executive of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, plans to step down at the end of the year, ​the U.S. pharmaceutical lobby group said on Wednesday. Ubl ‌communicated his decision to the board, ...

April 8 (Reuters) - Lab equipment maker Waters said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared ​its at-home cervical cancer screening kit ‌for use with an approved HPV test, potentially improving early detection and reducing deaths ...

April 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has told medical device maker Medline that its syringes used in heart procedures are defective and warned the company ​of penal actions if it fails to address the ‌issues. The warning letter, da...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays) By Nancy Lapid April 8 (Reuters) - An advanced version of a procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate brain nerve cells appea...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Daily satellite observations have revealed a continued nighttime brightening globally due to artificial lighting, with important regional variations including a surge in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast As...

By Joey Roulette HOUSTON, April 7 (Reuters) - The voyage of four astronauts to the far side of the moon has given the world a glimpse of America at its best, offering a respite from global despair and displeasure over U.S-led conflict, tariffs, and cru...

By Marta Serafinko April 7 (Reuters) - A species of small fish has been observed by the thousands climbing a vertical waterfall 15 metres (50 feet) tall in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a behaviour that illustrates the surprising and ingenious wa...

MOSCOW, April 7 (Reuters) - Russia has pushed back the launch of three moon missions, the Interfax news agency said on ​Tuesday, a setback to its ambitious ‌lunar exploration programme as longtime space rival, the United States, celebrated an historic ...

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman HOUSTON, April 6 (Reuters) - The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission flew deeper into space on Monday than any humans before them, as they cruised through a rare flyby of the shadowed far side of the moon that...

By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) - Citigroup is using artificial intelligence to speed up account openings and the retirement of old software, the U.S. bank's head of technology, Tim Ryan, said, as the ​firm pushes to improve productivity...

April 8 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Wednesday unveiled Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model from a costly team it assembled last year to catch up with rivals in the AI race. Shares of the company extended gains to ​trade up nearly 7%....

By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, April 8 (Reuters) - Russia sees Chinese tech giant Tencent's WeChat messaging app and TikTok sister app Douyin as models for developing its own struggling Max messaging ​app, Vladimir Kiriyenko, CEO of state-controlled internet...

By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA, April 8 (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's top ride-hailing and delivery firm Grab believes artificial intelligence-led products and services will help it drive growth and navigate challenges such as ...

By Luciana Magalhaes and Leticia Fucuchima SAO PAULO, April 8 (Reuters) - Tecto Data Centers, backed by BTG Pactual's funds, is set to invest $2 billion through 2028, including the ​construction of five data centers in Brazil, the ‌company told Reuters...

April 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance said on Wednesday that Jeff Shell is stepping down as the company's president and board member amid allegations ​that he violated U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ‌disclosure rules. Shell became president o...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, April 8 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles drug dealer known as the "Ketamine Queen" is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday for illegally supplying the dose of the prescription anesthetic ​that led to the drowning death of "Frie...

April 8 (Reuters) - Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, citing rising anxiety, sleep problems and the addictive design of ​online platforms....

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, April 7 (Reuters) - "Blue Jean" actor Lucy Halliday says the bonds formed between young girls in times of adversity are at the heart of what makes the Hulu drama ​series "The Testaments" special. "We see that in our sh...

By Mateusz Rabiega and Leo Marchandon April 7 (Reuters) - Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has offered to buy Universal Music Group via its acquisition vehicle in a $64 billion deal that would move the world's biggest music label's listing to New York fro...