Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police say a 66-year-old local man is the victim of an online fraud that has cost him 67-thousand dollars. The victim has cancer and was in contact with a woman on a messaging app. Police Information Officer, Sgt. Aaron Benson says the woman told the victim he would be receivin...

Madison, SD (KELO.com) -- Another group of new teachers just received their diplomas, thanks to the South Dakota Teacher Apprenticeship Pathway. The program allows paraprofessionals to earn their teaching degrees while still working in their local school system. 15 students graduated from Dakota State University Saturd...

South Dakota, (KELO.com) -- South Dakota is set to produce unmanned combat aircraft weapons, after a company was awarded a 35-million-dollar defense contract. The Dakota Scout was given exclusive media access to a meeting featuring state, local and federal officials. MMS Product, Inc. is developing weapons systems that...

Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's new Office of Indigent Legal Services is just getting off the ground, but timing may be a problem. The Office is handling a limited number of cases, mainly for criminal appeals, abuse and neglect. Supporters would like to see the service grow, but Chair Neil Fulton says with this...

Beresford, SD (KELO.com) -- A Beresford area cattle producer says a Missouri man and his companies swindled him out of millions of dollars' worth of livestock and beef. The Dakota Scout reports Joseph Schumacher is suing Brian Lillie and Best Beef Holdings, for failing to pay Schumacher for Wagyu beef valued at more th...

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police say a 66-year-old local man is the victim of an online fraud that has cost him 67-thousand dollars. The victim has cancer and was in contact with a woman on a messaging app. Police Information Officer, Sgt. Aaron Benson says the woman told the victim he would be receivin...

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- You get the rare chance to turn a 20-dollar bill into a hundred tomorrow. The Salvation Army Red Kettle Bell Drive has become a key part of the ministry's fundraising efforts for the past 15 years. Board member John Mogen says community members are matching donations tomorrow. Mogen says o...

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- Grab some extra blankets and put on extra layers if you're headed outdoors this weekend. Another Alberta clipper is headed our way with several inches of snow and bitterly cold temperatures. The high tomorrow is expected to stay in the single-digit range, with tomorrow night's low expected...

South Dakota (KELO.com) -- Lottery fever is setting in again, as the Powerball Jackpot rises above the one-billion-dollar mark for tomorrow night's drawing. It's been more than three months since someone took home the Powerball grand prize.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- An anonymous donor is covering the cost of student lunches at Madison elementary school. The 15-thousand dollar gift buys lunch for all 525 students for the entire week. Madison's principal says the donation was made by a local business owner.

Madison, SD (KELO.com) -- Another group of new teachers just received their diplomas, thanks to the South Dakota Teacher Apprenticeship Pathway. The program allows paraprofessionals to earn their teaching degrees while still working in their local school system. 15 students graduated from Dakota State University Saturd...

South Dakota, (KELO.com) -- South Dakota is set to produce unmanned combat aircraft weapons, after a company was awarded a 35-million-dollar defense contract. The Dakota Scout was given exclusive media access to a meeting featuring state, local and federal officials. MMS Product, Inc. is developing weapons systems that...

Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's new Office of Indigent Legal Services is just getting off the ground, but timing may be a problem. The Office is handling a limited number of cases, mainly for criminal appeals, abuse and neglect. Supporters would like to see the service grow, but Chair Neil Fulton says with this...

Beresford, SD (KELO.com) -- A Beresford area cattle producer says a Missouri man and his companies swindled him out of millions of dollars' worth of livestock and beef. The Dakota Scout reports Joseph Schumacher is suing Brian Lillie and Best Beef Holdings, for failing to pay Schumacher for Wagyu beef valued at more th...

Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- Governor Larry Rhoden's budget proposal did not include an increase in state funding for schools. His 'hold the line' approach in a tight budget year is generating plenty of disappointment. Some representatives suggested one-time funds that could help this year. However, Representative Tim Reis...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said that his eldest son, Donald ‍Trump Jr. is engaged to Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach socialite, the New York Times reported late on Monday. According to ‌the newspaper, Trump made ‌the announcement at ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - U.S. job growth likely rebounded in November following an anticipated decline in nonfarm payrolls in October because of federal government cost-cutting, economists predicted, still consistent with a gradually weakening la...

HANOI, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Vietnam is on track to receive a record high of 21 million foreign tourists this year, reflecting ‍the country's strong recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, its culture ministry said, despite chronic air pollution and deadly f...

(Corrects day of the week in paragraph 1) By Nate Raymond Dec 15 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to extend a deadline for states to implement new immigration-related eligibility restrictions on...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - A levee breach in Washington state following days of heavy rain has led to a flash flood warning and ‍evacuation orders, authorities said on Monday. The National Weather Service said it had issued a flash flood warning after a failur...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Malaysia ‍Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he would make ‌a ‌special announcement about the government's cabinet on Tuesday evening. He ​did not provide ‍details ​but said ​in a ‍social media post that the government "...

MANILA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The Philippines Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday that the two alleged gunmen behind the mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi ‍Beach travelled to the Philippines on November 1 aboard Philippine Airlines Flight PR212 from Sydne...

ANKARA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Turkey shot down an uncontrolled drone approaching its airspace over ‍the Black Sea, the defence ministry said. The incident follows Turkey's warning last week of Black Sea escalation after Russian attacks ‌on Ukrainian ports...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Sudan has once again topped a watchlist of global humanitarian crises released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization, as warring sides press on ‍with a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of ...

By Christine Chen and Tom Bateman SYDNEY, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Government authorities have not done enough to stamp out hatred of Jews in Australia, which has allowed it to fester in the aftermath of October 7, said the daughter of a Holocaust survivor w...

SEOUL, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Shares of ‍South Korean battery maker LG ‌Energy Solution ‌fell 6% by 0554 GMT after customer Ford ​Motor said ‍on ​Monday ​it is ‍killing several electric vehicle models. LG Energy peer ‍Samsung SDI dropped 3.5% ‍and cathode ...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Investors have hunkered down, unwilling to take on risky bets, ahead of a clutch of economic data from across ‍the globe and central bank meetings in what is shaping up to be an...

By Anant Chandak BENGALURU, Dec 16 (Reuters) - India's private sector activity ended the year on a sombre note, expanding at its weakest pace in ten months in December as a slowdown in new ‍orders took the steam out of both the manufacturing and servic...

LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Weakening profit margins at private credit borrowers globally will likely lead to further loan defaults in 2026, credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS said ‍on Tuesday, as it reaffirmed its negative outlook for the fast-growi...

By Heejin Kim and Heekyong Yang SEOUL, Dec 16 (Reuters) - South Korean private equity firm MBK Partners and metal smelter YoungPoong Corp have filed for an injunction at a local court ‍to block Korea Zinc's share sale plan to fund the construction of a...

After Jake Sanderson tied it with a goal late in regulation, Brady Tkachuk scored 2:11 into overtime as the Ottawa Senators rallied for a 3-2 victory over the host Winnipeg Jets on Monday night. Tim Stutzle contributed with three assists, including a ...

Ha-Seong Kim, who joined the Atlanta Braves late last season, will stick around for at least one more year. The 30-year-old free agent signed a one-year, $20 million contract with the Braves on ‍Monday, and he will remain the team's starting shortstop...

Wasting no time after getting knocked out of the Kansas City Chiefs' game on Sunday, quarterback Patrick Mahomes had his injured left knee surgically repaired Monday ‍evening. The team wrote in a statement, "Patrick Mahomes successfully underwent surg...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - World number one Aryna Sabalenka has been named WTA Player of the Year for the second consecutive season after spending the entire year at the ‍top of the rankings, the governing body of women's tennis announced on Monday. Sabalenka ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - The ATP Tour said it will introduce a new heat policy that will come into effect from 2026 after a string of retirements due to soaring temperatures and punishing humidity at the ‍Shanghai Masters earlier this season. The governing b...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - South Korea-based ADEL said late on Monday that it has entered a $1.04 ‍billion partnership with French drugmaker Sanofi to develop and sell the biotech company's experimental Alzheimer's disease treatment. Under the terms of the agr...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. ‍Food and Drug Administration has ‌no ‌plans to put a "black box" warning ​on ‍COVID-19 ​vaccines, ​Bloomberg News ‍reported on Monday, citing ‍the agency's top official ‍Marty ‍Makary. (Reporting ​by ​Mariam ⁠Sunny ‌in Ben...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - President ‍Donald Trump said on ‌Monday ‌he is considering signing an executive order ​to ‍reclassify ​marijuana as ​a ‍less dangerous drug. "We are looking at ‍that very strongly," ‍Trump ‍told ​reporters in ​the ⁠Oval ‌...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to four major retailers for continuing to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial ‍illness in infants, even after the products were recalled, the h...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. ‍Food and Drug Administration ‌has ‌approved Daiichi Sankyo's therapy in combination with ​Roche's drug ‍for ​the first-line ​treatment ‍of patients with a type of ‍breast cancer, the ‍regulator ‍said ​on Monday. (Reportin...

ROME, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process ‍into 'pastries' with high nutritional content. Italy's rich culinary tradit...

By Joey Roulette, Ross Kerber and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to reach Mars with growing the revenue-rich Starlink s...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' aerospace firm Blue Origin has been working for over a year on the necessary technology for artificial intelligence data centers ‍in space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the ...

By Will Dunham Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago - revealing that this milest...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Chinese astronauts have installed protection against "space junk" aboard the permanently inhabited station Tiangong, according to China's manned spaceflight authorities, a ‍month after a docked vessel was...

BEIJING/HONG KONG, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Chinese AI chip startup Biren Technology aims to launch a Hong Kong initial public offering in the coming weeks, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The IPO could raise $300 million, local ‍Chinese medi...

SEOUL, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The nominee to head South Korea's broadcast and media commission told parliament on ‍Tuesday he would pursue imposing restrictions on social media use for teenagers, saying it was a priority as a means to protect young people....

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this ‍year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Mon...

LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - British regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched a wide-ranging consultation on a range of proposed rules for the crypto ‍industry on Tuesday, a day after the government said the industry would be regulated fr...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - "Battlefield" maker Electronic Arts forecast fiscal 2026 net bookings below analysts' estimates on Monday, as soft ‍consumer spending and elevated console prices weigh on demand during a fiercely competitive holiday season. The Redwo...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nick Reiner, 32, ‍was arrested on Sunday evening and was ‌being held ‌on $4 million bail, booking information from the Los Angeles ​Sheriff's Office showed. The ‍arrest ​comes as ​police continued their ‍investigation aft...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Netflix's decision to acquire assets from Warner Bros Discovery has not changed, its co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos said ‍in a letter to employees on Monday. The streaming giant won Warner Bros' vote earlier this month, securin...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A decade after making his feature film debut with acclaimed drama "Masaan", Indian director Neeraj Ghaywan returns with a second movie that seeks to give a voice to ‍people who feel invisible. Based on true e...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Get ready to head back to the wasteland of the Mojave Desert. "Fallout" star Walton Goggins is teasing that the show's second season will heavily channel the ‍spirit of "Fallout: New Vegas", the vide...

PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - American pop superstar Mariah Carey will be the ‍first major music act in the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, organisers said in a ‌statement on Monday. Carey will ‌perform at Milan's San Siro Stad...