SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The return to power of President-elect Donald Trump may deliver a reprieve for some South Dakotans charged in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Reporting by South Dakota Searchlight reveals that four South Dakotans have pending charges, and one has been sentenced for their roles in the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A potential hit and run has left one woman dead. At about 3:40 this morning emergency crews were dispatched to W Innovation and N Career Ave for a crash. Responders found the woman in the roadway with life threatening injuries. The investigation revealed limited information due to poor w...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Iceman has Cometh. A wintry mix of flurries and sleet has made travel difficult in the KELO listening area. Roads are reportedly slick throughout Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties. Precipitation is expected to taper off by noon today, and winds will be relatively calm. Slippery conditio...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Air travel out of the Sioux Falls Regional Airport is reaching new heights. Airport Executive Director Dan Letellier says airport traffic has increased by 50-percent in the last ten years...and nearly doubled in the last 15 years. The airport's newest addition - the 950-stall parking ram...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Mayor Paul TenHaken asked legislators to avoid "culture war" issues this year, but now the culture war has come to city hall. A number of citizens spoke up during the public comment section of Tuesday night's city council meeting, reading graphic segments of children's books fro...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's Senators will play a big role in the 119th Congress. John Thune ascended to the position of Senate Majority Leader. He is the second South Dakotan to hold that position, the first being Tom Daschle from 2001-2004 Mike Rounds has recently been appointed to five committees, i...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It was a justified use of force. Attorney General Marty Jackley announced that two Yankton Police Officers were correct when they shot Andrew Jondahl on December 5th. Jondahl, 40, had been ejected from an event at Yankton High School for being intoxicated. When police arrived, Jondahl was in ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A science teacher at Lower Brule High School in South Dakota is on a two-week professional development adventure taking her to Antarctica. Bree Oatman is one of about 30 teachers chosen by National Geographic to participate in the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship program. People may think the wea...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Absenteeism among South Dakota's Native American students is more than double the state average. A study by South Dakota NewsWatch and the Associated Press shows chronic absenteeism among indigenous students runs at 54-percent. The state average is 21-percent. Officials describe chronic abse...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- 120-miles per hour in a 65 mile an hour zone on I-90. The South Dakota Highway Patrol has a man behind bars for that violation, saying his blood/alcohol level was nearly double the limit. The Patrol says it will conduct sobriety checkpoints in 15 counties during the rest of the month.

By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress early on Saturday passed a measure to boost Social Security retirement payments to some retirees who draw public pensions - such as former police and firefighters - which critics warned will f...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday agreed to provide $571.3 million in defense support for Taiwan, the White House said, while the State Department approved the potential sale to the island of $265 million worth of military e...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden secured his 235th appointment to the federal judiciary on Friday, narrowly surpassing President-elect Donald Trump's first-term tally by one with a record number of women and people of...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a proposed rule change that would have prohibited schools from banning transgender athletes from teams matching their gender identities. The administration notified the public t...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bushfires in Australia's Victoria state burnt out of control on Saturday, with authorities issuing an evacuation order at the highest danger rating for hundreds of residents in the state's west. The alert was for an area near the...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Chinese bulk carrier that is under investigation following a breach of two fibre-optic cables in the Baltic Sea is again moving after sitting still for more than a month in a nearby Danish shipping lane, The Swedish Coastgua...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iceland's president appointed a new government on Saturday and named Social Democratic party leader Kristrun Frostadottir as prime minister, public broadcaster RUV reported. Frostadottir's centre-left Social Democratic Alliance be...

(Reuters) - A packed bus collided with a truck and burst into flames early on Saturday in Brazil, killing at least 22 people, the fire department said. The bus carrying 45 passengers had a tire blowout and the driver lost control of the vehicle, wh...

By Isaac Anyaogu and and Camillus Eboh LAGOS (Reuters) - At least 13 people died in two incidents in Nigeria on Saturday as crowds, mostly women and children, scrambled for charity, police authorities said. In the state capital Abuja, at least 10 p...

By Orhan Qereman, Tom Perry and Tuvan Gumrukcu QAMISHLI, Syria/BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - With hostile Turkish-backed groups mobilising against them in Syria's north, and Damascus ruled by a group friendly to Ankara, Syria's main Kurdish factions ar...

ST MORITZ (Reuters) - American skiing great Lindsey Vonn marked her return to the World Cup circuit for the first time in nearly six years by finishing 14th fastest in the super-G at St Moritz, Switzerland, on Saturday. Vonn, a three-times Olympic ...

With the New York Rangers in dire need of a win, Igor Shesterkin turned in a spectacular performance on Friday. The goalie made 41 saves to end his team's three-game losing streak in a 3-1 victory against the host Dallas Stars. Vincent Trocheck had a ...

The New York Yankees acquired right-handed reliever Fernando Cruz and catcher Alex Jackson on Friday night in exchange for veteran catcher Jose Trevino. Cruz, 34, went 3-8 last season with a 4.86 ERA, 35 walks and 109 strikeouts in 66 2/3 innings over...

Donovan Mitchell scored 27 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 124-101 home win over the Bucks on Friday, swiftly bringing Milwaukee down from its NBA Cup-championship high. Five other Cavs scored in double-figures, with Darius Garland putting...

The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series, and now they are paying the bill. The champions top the list of a record nine MLB teams that were hit with luxury tax bills, ESPN and USA Today reported Friday. Los Angeles was assessed a $103 million pen...

By Mrinmay Dey (Reuters) - Party City, which has been struggling since the COVID-19 pandemic, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States on Saturday for the second time in two years as it plans to wind down its retail and whol...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda and Nissan are considering producing vehicles in one another's factories as part of their talks to deepen ties, news agency Kyodo reported on Saturday without citing sources. The report added that Honda will also consider su...

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google proposed on Friday a loosening of its agreements with Apple and others to set Google as the default search engine on new devices to address a U.S. ruling that it unlawfully dominates online search. The pr...

By David French (Reuters) -Northern Oil and Gas has made an acquisition offer for Granite Ridge Resources, a smaller U.S. producer with operations in basins including the Permian and Eagle Ford, according to people familiar with the matter. Minneapolis...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee said on Friday that Republicans in Congress were protecting Elon Musk's Chinese investments by scrapping provisions restricting U.S. inv...

Naloxone is an over-the-counter nasal-spray medication that can save an overdose victim by rapidly reversing the effects of fentanyl, heroin and other opioids. Doctors urge all people - especially those with prescription opioids at home or a substance ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Novo Nordisk's drug for the prevention or reduction of bleeding episodes in patients with a type of blood-related disorder called hemophilia A, the agency said on Friday. (Reporting by...

By Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals' next-generation treatment for a rare and progressive genetic disease, the company said on Friday, expanding its dominance in the market for cystic fi...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Eli Lilly's weight-loss treatment, Zepbound, for obstructive sleep apnea, making it the first drug greenlighted to directly treat patients with the common sleeping disorder. The regula...

By Blake Brittain Japanese drugmaker Nippon Shinyaku infringed a Sarepta patent related to its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug Vyondys 53 and must pay $115.2 million in damages, a Delaware jury said on Friday. The jury also rejected competing pa...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing's rapidly expandin...

LIMA (Reuters) - An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to Peru's Amazon, according to Conservation International. Scientists also discovered a spiny m...

(Reuters) - NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's return to Earth will be further delayed until at least late March, the agency said, taking what should have been an eight-day stay on the International Space Station to more than nine mo...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a "living fossil" is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat. The Calyptocephallela gayi, or Helme...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Space One said it terminated the flight of its Kairos small rocket after launch on Wednesday, aborting its second bid to become the country's first company to deliver a satellite to the Earth's orbit. The rocket ended the ...

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google proposed on Friday a loosening of its agreements with Apple and others to set Google as the default search engine on new devices to address a U.S. ruling that it unlawfully dominates online search. The pr...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platform Inc's WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, ...

(Reuters) - Video sharing platform and cloud services provider Rumble said on Friday it has entered into an agreement with Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform, to receive a strategic investment of $775 million. Shares of the Toronto-based company...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swedish electric-vehicle battery maker Northvolt said on Friday it expects to line up additional bankruptcy financing by late January after engaging with over 100 lenders and potential investors. Northvolt entered bankruptcy on...

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Officials in the United States and Israel have denied reports their countries had signed off on the sale of Israeli spyware maker Paragon to Florida-based AE Industrial Partners. Over the past ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA and Netflix have signed a deal to broadcast the 2027 and 2031 editions of the Women's World Cup in the United States, world soccer's governing body said on Friday. FIFA said the Women's World Cup will be the first competit...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver has made her West End debut as the magician Prospero in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and said she was glad she had taken on the role. The 75-year-old actor, kn...

By Danielle Broadway SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Director Barry Jenkins believes it was important to revisit the Disney classic "The Lion King" with the prequel "Mufasa: The Lion King" for audiences to understand that the protagonist lion Mufasa was neve...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Timothee Chalamet likened his journey to playing music legend Bob Dylan to an athletic feat. It turned into a marathon that stretched longer than the actor had expected. Chalamet signed up to play Dylan in 2...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The script for the biblical epic "Mary," which tells the story of the Nativity from the perspective of Mary of Nazareth, languished in Hollywood for some 15 years before entering product...