MITCHELL, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces a Mitchell man has been found guilty of two counts of First-Degree Rape involving children under 13 years old. Eric Mark Opperman, 48, entered a change of plea on Thursday in Davison County Circuit Court, after which he was found guilty. ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are asking for your help in solving a copper wiring theft that included significant vandalism. Numerous light poles were pried open along the bike trail north of Falls Park, in an attempt to steal the wiring. The value of the stolen wire and the damage to the light pol...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Construction is beginning on Fire Station 13 in Sioux Falls, near the site of the new Smithfield Plant in Foundation Park. Ground was broken for the project yesterday. The area has seen major expansion with the industrial park, as well as surrounding Southeast Technical College and new h...

SALEM, SD (KELO.com) -- The former mayor of Centerville will spend the rest of his life in prison. Jay Ostrem was given three life sentences without parole. He was convicted in March in the shooting deaths of Paul and Zachary Frankus and Timothy Richmond. Ostrem was Centerville's Mayor from 2009 to 2011, and also se...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Start making plans now for a major street closing in east Sioux Falls. Arrowhead Parkway will be closed between Veterans Parkway and Highline Avenue starting next Thursday. It will allow crews to reconstruct the west side of the Arrowhead and Veterans Parkway intersection. The project is...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- This is Free Fishing weekend in South Dakota. No license will be required throughout the weekend. There's also free entry into state parks. The weekend is free, but all fishing and boating regulations still apply - including daily possession limits.

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's new Health Department Workforce and Education Center will be up and running next week. The 70-million dollar facility in Pierre is in the final stages of construction. Health Secretary Melissa Magstadt says the state lab conducted nearly 150-thousand lab tests over the past yea...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- The first class of Freedom Scholarship graduates will receive their diplomas this weekend. The students are the first to have received scholarship help all four years of College. In exchange, they have agreed to live and work in South Dakota for at least three years after graduating. The Legisl...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- They're pushing for change in the state's parole and probation system. Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead was disappointed with a lack of action by this year's legislature. Sioux Falls Police Chief Jon Thum says although it isn't popular to say in South Dakota, making improvements is ...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- A Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement training center will be opening in North Dakota, despite calls for it to be located in South Dakota. Attorney General Marty Jackley advocated for a regional academy in South Dakota for years. He calls the North Dakota location a step in the right direct...

May 16 (Reuters) - A magnitude ​6.0 ‌earthquake struck Antigua and Barbuda ‌on ​Saturday, ⁠according to ⁠the U.S. Geological Survey. USGS reported ​that the ⁠quake's ⁠epicenter was ​located 70 ​kilometers (44 miles) east-southeast ‌of Codrington in ⁠th...

By Miranda Murray CANNES, France, May 16 (Reuters) - Austrian director Marie Kreutzer recalled on Saturday it was difficult to make her Cannes Film Festival entry "Gentle Monster," a family drama about ​the fallout from an investigation into child sexu...

By Michael Erman May 16 (Reuters) - The acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug center, Tracy Beth Hoeg, was fired on Friday, according to her social media post, and has been replaced ​by deputy Michael Davis, the FDA's website show...

By Brad Brooks WIGGINS, Colorado, May 16 (Reuters) - Perched behind the cash register at Stubs liquor store, Amy Van Duyn gazed out the window at a red-and-green gasoline price sign, which she said seemed to tick up daily. The price was $4.34 per gallo...

By David Morgan May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican moderate targeted for retribution by President Donald Trump, will find out whether he can survive a primary election in Louisiana on Saturday against two popular rivals, includi...

May 16 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Saturday allowed a sanctions waiver to lapse that had previously allowed countries including India to buy Russian seaborne oil after a month-long ​extension aimed at easing oil supply shortages and high ‌p...

(Corrects suspect's first name in paragraph 1) THE HAGUE, May 16 (Reuters) - Felicien Kabuga, a suspect in the 1994 ​Rwanda genocide, has died in ‌custody, a U.N. court said on Saturday. He was 93. Kabuga was arrested in France in 2020 after more than ...

By Sergio Goncalves and Miguel Pereira LISBON, May 16 (Reuters) - Thousands of teachers marched through central Lisbon on Saturday to protest against the centre-right government, demanding ​higher pay, faster career progression and better working ‌cond...

TUNIS, May 16 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tunisians protested in the capital Tunis on Saturday against President Kais Saied, accusing him ​of undermining freedoms and presiding over ‌a worsening economic and social crisis. The protest was held under the sl...

SAO PAULO, May 16 (Reuters) - A second-round runoff in October between Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator ​Flavio Bolsonaro would result in a draw, ‌the latest Datafolha poll released on Saturday indicated. • According to the pol...

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios, who has not pitched in a major league ​game since last September, ‌will undergo surgery for a stress fracture in his elbow, manager John Schneider said Saturday. Berrios, 31, did not ‌participate ​in the Bl...

The New York Mets placed right-hander Clay Holmes on the 15-day injured list Saturday after ​he fractured his right fibula ‌when he was hit by a comebacker in Friday's game against the New York Yankees. In a corresponding move, right-hander ‌Joey ​Ger...

The Athletics designated second baseman Michael Stefanic for assignment Saturday and acquired minor league infielder ​Alika Williams from the Pittsburgh ‌Pirates. Stefanic, 30, was added to the A's roster Tuesday and was 2-for-5 with a run scored in t...

Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel and Kansas City Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy are two of 34 ​coaches and executives scheduled to ‌participate in the NFL's revamped accelerator program, ESPN reported on Saturday. The NFL began holdin...

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pennsylvania, May 16 (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy roared back into contention at the PGA Championship with a third-round 66 on Saturday ​at Aronimink, recovering from his disastrous opening ‌round to revive hopes of a second straight major ...

May 16 (Reuters) - BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's initial public offering ​next month, the Information ‌news outlet reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is targeting a raise of ab...

By Ella Cao and Lewis Jackson BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) - China and the United States have agreed to expand agricultural trade through tariff reductions and tackle non-tariff barriers and market access issues, China's commerce ministry said ​on Saturda...

May 16 (Reuters) - Tesla raised the prices of its Model Y cars in ​the United States on ‌Saturday, according to its website. The company increased the price of its Model Y premium all-wheel ‌drive ​and Model Y ⁠premium rear-wheel drive ⁠by $1,000 to $4...

May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI said on Saturday it had ​signed a deal ‌with the government of Malta to give all residents access to its ChatGPT Plus service ‌for ​one year after ⁠they follow a ⁠course on how to use AI. •...

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Reuters) - Soaring diesel prices since the onset of the Iran war are draining already tight U.S. school district budgets, making it more expensive to bus students and run generators in a shock officials say they w...

TORONTO, May 16 (Reuters) - British Columbia's government said on Saturday one Canadian tested positive for hantavirus after leaving a luxury cruise ​ship hit by an outbreak of the ‌Andes strain of the virus. The individual, who was tested at a hospita...

By Michael Erman May 16 (Reuters) - The acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug center, Tracy Beth Hoeg, was fired on Friday, according to her social media post, and has been replaced ​by deputy Michael Davis, the FDA's website show...

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are receiving daily briefings on the U.S. response to an Andes hantavirus outbreak that ​killed three people aboard a luxury...

May 15 (Reuters) - About 20 deaths linked to serious liver dysfunction have been reported in Japan in patients treated with Amgen's rare disease drug Tavneos, according ​to a safety notice issued by partner Kissei Pharmaceutical ‌on Friday. Kissei has ...

May 15 (Reuters) - West Pharmaceutical Services said on Friday its operations were steadily recovering after a cyberattack earlier ​this month disrupted manufacturing and logistics ‌globally. The incident first detected on May 4 led the company to take...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Reuters) - NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and a planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft on its final course to the solar system's largest known metallic asteroid, though...

By Sayed Sheasha LUXOR, Egypt, May 14 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Thursday exhibited a plaster blocking wall of King Tutankhamun's tomb in Luxor and unveiled two restored ancient tombs on the West Bank of the city that ​date back to the New Kin...

By Will Dunham May 14 (Reuters) - Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due ...

By Will Dunham May 13 (Reuters) - About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the lower jaw. That tooth has now been discovered inside a Siberian cave, bearing signs of dental s...

May 12 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google on Tuesday said it has been in discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX and others regarding future launches for ​its Project Suncatcher, an orbital data center ‌project. Google is pushing the space-based data center ide...

May 16 (Reuters) - BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's initial public offering ​next month, the Information ‌news outlet reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX is targeting a raise of ab...

May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI said on Saturday it had ​signed a deal ‌with the government of Malta to give all residents access to its ChatGPT Plus service ‌for ​one year after ⁠they follow a ⁠course on how to use AI. •...

May 16 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on Saturday that ​the sale of ‌Google parent Alphabet's shares was not a bet against the company. Ackman on Friday ‌said ​his firm ⁠Pershing Square had ⁠built a new position in tech giant Microso...

By Heekyong Yang SEOUL, May 16 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labour union will resume pay talks on Monday with a government mediator, the union said, in a ​move that could ease concerns over a potentially disruptive ‌strike at th...

By Diana Novak Jones and Nate Raymond May 15 (Reuters) - Alphabet's YouTube, Snap and TikTok have reached settlements in the first case set for trial in litigation seeking to force social media platforms to cover the costs ​school districts incur to co...

By Miranda Murray CANNES, France, May 16 (Reuters) - Austrian director Marie Kreutzer recalled on Saturday it was difficult to make her Cannes Film Festival entry "Gentle Monster," a family drama about ​the fallout from an investigation into child sexu...

By Lisa Leutner VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) - You will barely notice them on television, but a small band of stage hands nicknamed "ninjas" at the Eurovision Song Contest perform a feat ​as impressive as those on stage: swapping out countries' ‌sets in th...

VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) - Austria hosts the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on Saturday, which this year has been marked by the boycott of five countries protesting the participation of Israel. WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? It is...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, May 16 (Reuters) - The Eurovision Song Contest's final got under way in Vienna on Saturday overshadowed by five nations' boycott over Gaza, but Israel's performance went off without any obvious sign of protest in the room. Th...

CANNES, France, May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. screen legend John Travolta, star of hits such as "Pulp Fiction" and "Grease," was surprised on Friday with an honorary Palme d'Or prize at the ​Cannes Film Festival, before the premiere of his directorial ‌debut...