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Community members are matching donations during the Salvation Army Red Kettle Bell Drive
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...
Dec 12, 2025
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Cold weather expected over the weekend
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...
Dec 12, 2025
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Powerball Jackpot rises over one billion dollars
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.
Dec 12, 2025

Free school lunches for the kids at Madison Elementary School
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.
Dec 12, 2025
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South Dakota Supreme Court upholds 65-year prison term
Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- The 65-year prison term of a former Sioux Falls area man is upheld by the South Dakota Supreme Court. Attorney General Marty Jackley is commending the high court in its unanimous decision. Lance Lowell Long was convicted of rape, aggravated assault and abuse of a minor in the case from Sturgis....
Dec 12, 2025
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State News

Kristi Noem defends herself during House Hearing
Washington D.C. (KELO.com) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem found herself in the hotseat during a House Hearing in Washington. Democrats were in attack mode, criticizing the crackdown on illegal immigration that's under her watch. Secretary Noem says the descriptions being used by Democratic leaders are encourag...
Dec 12, 2025

Congressman Dusty Johnson calling for an investigation into the post office
Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- Congressman Dusty Johnson is joining Senator Mike Rounds in calling for an investigation into slow mail service in South Dakota. Rounds is asking the Postal Service's Inspector General to find out why service has become so slow. Johnson calls the service a disaster.
Dec 12, 2025

The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed unanimously in the Senate
Washington D.C. (KELO.com) -- It isn't often the U.S Senate agrees unanimously on anything, but it has in passing the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act. The bill was sponsored by Senator Mike Rounds which places 40 acres into restricted fee status to be held by the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe...
Dec 12, 2025
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South Dakota received funding to improve high speed internet across the state
Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota will be improving high speed internet across the state. The Governor's office of Economic Development has received approval for over 72-million dollars to expand service. This new funding comes thanks to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA). They ...
Dec 11, 2025
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New business locations are needed in Aberdeen, SD
Aberdeen, SD (KELO.com) -- Aberdeen is growing, but it's out of space for new business locations. There's only one vacant development property available. Local leaders and investors have already raised seven million dollars for two new development parks. Governor Larry Rhoden is adding another million from the state's ...
Dec 11, 2025
National News
Flash floods kill seven people in Morocco's Safi
RABAT, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by torrential rains killed at least seven people and injured 20 others on Sunday in Morocco's Atlantic coastal province of Safi, 330 kilometres (205 miles) south of Rabat, Moroccan authorities said...
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Providence police detain person of interest after Brown University shooting, NBC 10 WJAR reports
Dec 14 (Reuters) - Providence police said early on Sunday they have taken a person of interest into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University, NBC 10 WJAR reported. The police did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for co...
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How the US freight rail industry got dirtier than coal power plants
By Tim McLaughlin Dec. 14 (Reuters) - BNSF Railway, one of the crown jewels of Warren Buffett's sprawling Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, calls itself an environmental leader in the U.S. rail industry with the cleanest locomotive fleet in North Americ...
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German far-right lawmaker calls for US-German nationalist alliance at MAGA gala
By Hussein Waaile and Sarah Marsh NEW YORK/BERLIN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A senior German far-right lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German nationalist parties at a MAGA gala on Saturday where he was being honored, buoyed by a new U.S. secu...
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Analysis-How Donald Trump is molding 2028 Democratic presidential contenders
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's aggressive policy agenda is doing more than reshaping the economy and immigration enforcement - it's also giving a handful of Democratic governors a national stage to position themselves as potent...
17h ago
World News
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty of collusion with foreign forces
HONG KONG, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's High Court on Monday found pro-democracy campaigner and tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty of collusion with foreign forces under a China-imposed national security law that could see him jailed for life. The case ...
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What we know about the shooting victims at Sydney's Bondi Beach Jewish event
By Scott Murdoch and Christine Chen MELBOURNE, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Among the 15 victims of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach targeting an event marking the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday were a rabbi who was a father of five, a Holocaust...
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Ex-South Korea President Yoon tried to provoke Pyongyang into armed aggression, prosecutor says
SEOUL, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol tried to provoke North Korea into mounting a military aggression to create justification for the December 2024 martial law declaration and to eliminate political opponents, a s...
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'Unspeakable tragedy': Bondi residents react to mass shooting
By Scott Murdoch and Christine Chen SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Stories of horror and heroism emerged as Australians mourned the 15 people killed by two gunmen at Sydney's Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah event. Police said two shooters, a father-son duo, ...
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'Hero' who disarmed Bondi gunman recovering after surgery, family says
SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A Sydney fruit shop owner who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during the mass shooting at Bondi Beach is recovering in hospital after undergoing surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family said...
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Sports News
Rams WR Davante Adams (hamstring) could miss Seahawks showdown
Los Angeles Rams receiver Davante Adams exited Sunday's game against the Detroit Lions after aggravating a left hamstring injury and he could miss Thursday night's NFC West showdown with the host Seattle Seahawks. Adams was injured early in the fourt...
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Packers' Micah Parsons suffers non-contact knee injury vs. Broncos
Green Bay Packers defensive end Micah Parsons departed Sunday's road game against the Denver Broncos with a non-contact left knee injury. Parsons collapsed in a heap and clutched his knee after attempting to take down Broncos quarterback Bo Nix in th...
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Kalen DeBoer declares 'no interest' in leaving Alabama
Amid buzz about his job security and the surprise opening of another big-time head coaching job, Kalen DeBoer and athletic director Greg Byrne released statements Sunday reaffirming that the coach's future is at Alabama. Rumors have abounded about De...
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Hawks' Kristaps Porzingis (illness) to miss at least 2 more weeks
Atlanta Hawks big man Kristaps Porzingis will miss at least two more weeks and undergo further testing due to an illness, the team announced Sunday. Sunday's game against the Philadelphia 76ers is the seventh of the last eight that Porzingis sat out ...
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Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 2 Texas blasts No. 13 Baylor
Madison Booker erupted for 27 points as No. 2 Texas remained unbeaten by throttling No. 13 Baylor 89-54 on Sunday on a neutral court in Fort Worth, Texas. The Longhorns (12-0) trailed 11-8 but rattled off the next 16 points and did not waver or look ...
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Business News
China's home prices slide further in November
By Liangping Gao and Liz Lee BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China's new home prices extended declines in November, official data showed on Monday, indicating that a recovery in demand remains elusive despite the government vowing to stabilise the sector....
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China's factory output, retail sales weaken in November
BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China's factory output and retail sales growth slowed further in November, weighed by weak domestic demand and adding pressure on policymakers to take action to rebalance the $19 trillion economy, as trading partners take is...
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China's November industrial output grows 4.8% y/y, retail sales up 1.3%
BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China's industrial output in November rose 4.8% year-on-year, slowing from the 4.9% growth in October, while retail sales growth slowed, official data showed on Monday. The industrial output data, released by the National...
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China's property investment falls 15.9% y/y in January-November
BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Property investment in China fell 15.9% year-on-year in the first 11 months, widening from the 14.7% drop in the January-to-October period, official data showed on Monday. Property sales by floor area declined 7.8% year-o...
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Oil rises on fears of supply disruption as US-Venezuela tensions escalate
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Monday, recouping part of last week's 4% slide, as concerns over potential disruptions from escalating U.S.-Venezuela tensions outweighed lingering oversupply worries and the effects of a p...
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Health News
Sweden's SOBI to buy Arthrosi Therapeutics for $1.5 billion
Dec 13 (Reuters) - Drugmaker Swedish Orphan Biovitrum said on Saturday it had entered into an agreement to acquire biotechnology company Arthrosi Therapeutics for $1.5 billion. Sobi will pay $950 million upfront in cash to acquire Arthrosi, an...
Dec 13, 2025
France to vaccinate cattle for lumpy skin disease as farmers protest against cull
By Mathieu Rosemain and Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - France will vaccinate 1 million head of cattle in the coming weeks against lumpy skin disease, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said on Saturday, as protesting farmers blocked ...
Dec 13, 2025
Jury orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $40 million to two women in latest talc trial
By Diana Novak Jones Dec 12 (Reuters) - A California jury on Friday awarded $40 million to two women who said Johnson & Johnson's baby powder was to blame for their ovarian cancer. The jury in Los Angeles Superior Court awarded $18 million to Monica Ke...
Dec 13, 2025
US House Republican healthcare plan does not extend Obamacare subsidies
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday presented a healthcare proposal that leaves unresolved steep health insurance premium increases set to impact millio...
Dec 13, 2025
Court rejects Planned Parenthood's challenge to Trump-backed law ending Medicaid funding
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a provision of U.S. President Donald Trump's signature tax and domestic policy bill that deprives Planned Parenthood and local affiliates that perform abortions of...
Dec 13, 2025
Science News
Analysis-Musk's Mars mission adds risk to red-hot SpaceX IPO
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 12, 2025
Bezos' Blue Origin working on orbital data center technology, WSJ reports
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 ...
Dec 10, 2025
Oldest evidence of human fire-making discovered at site in England
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...
Dec 10, 2025
Chinese astronauts install debris protection aboard space station
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...
Dec 09, 2025
Scientists discover secrets of ancient Roman concrete at Pompeii
By Will Dunham Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and methods behind the durable se...
Dec 09, 2025
Technology News
iRobot enters Chapter 11, lender to acquire Roomba maker
Dec 14 (Reuters) - iRobot said on Sunday that it has started a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in the district of Delaware. The Roomba-maker said it has entered into a restructuring support agreement (RSA) with a secured lender and ...
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UK regulation of cryptoassets to start in October 2027, finance ministry says
By Phoebe Seers LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Britain will start regulating cryptoassets from October 2027, the finance ministry said on Monday, rules it hopes will give the industry certainty while keeping out "dodgy actors". The new law - the governme...
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Russian ban on Roblox gaming platform sparks rare protest
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia's ban on U.S. children's gaming platform Roblox, a rare show of public dissent as popular irritation over the ban gai...
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ServiceNow near deal to buy cybersecurity startup Armis for up to $7 billion, Bloomberg News reports
Dec 13 (Reuters) - ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy Armis, a cybersecurity startup that had been eyeing an initial public offering next year, in a deal that may be valued at as much as $7 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing peo...
Dec 14, 2025
Huawei's latest handset uses improved China-made chip, report shows
Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Kirin 9030, the chip that powers Huawei Technologies' latest flagship Mate 80 series handset, has been manufactured by China's top foundry SMIC with an improved version of 7 nanometres, which is still behind TSMC and Samsung, ...
Dec 13, 2025
Entertainment News
Live Nation, Ticketmaster must face sprawling class action over prices
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A federal judge in California ruled on Friday that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster must face a class action on behalf of millions of Americans for allegedly overcharging them for events at m...
Dec 12, 2025
Disney's 'Zootopia 2' set to join $1 billion box office club
Dec 12 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Zootopia 2" is on track to surpass $1 billion at the global box office, the company said on Friday, as the sequel continues its strong run in international markets. The film, which revisits the bustli...
Dec 12, 2025
Netflix's $72 billion Warner Bros deal faces skepticism over YouTube rivalry claim
By Jody Godoy NEW YORK, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Netflix says it must acquire Warner Bros Discovery to compete with YouTube, but antitrust experts doubt regulators will buy that argument. The streaming giant's $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery's ...
Dec 12, 2025
Universal submits remedy to EU's objections over Downtown deal
BRUSSELS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Universal Music said on Friday it has submitted a remedy to address competition concerns from the European Commission over the group's $775-million takeover of Downtown Music. The Commission last month objected to the deal...
Dec 12, 2025
Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI, license characters for Sora AI tool
Dec 11 (Reuters) - Walt Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will let the startup use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video and image generator, a crucial deal that could reshape how Hollywood makes conten...
Dec 11, 2025




