SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office is reminding drivers to slow down in school zones. Reduce your speed, put your phones away, and watch for students walking and on bicycles Deputies have increased patrols in the morning drop-offs and afternoon pickup. Your cooperation helps keep these...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.COM) - The Sioux Falls School District is heading into the new school year with a full staff, mostly. The district says it has filled most of its teaching positions, save for a few vacancies for subs and support staff. Thousands of students return to the classrooms this week and the district say...

PIERRE, S.D. (Kelo.com) - The South Dakota Department of Education's Division of Child and Adult Nutrition Services (CANS) is pleased to announce four additional awards for the Farm to School grant to advance local projects. This brings the total Farm to School grantees to ten, bringing the total award dollars to $99,4...

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) - As students return to classrooms in Stanley County today, they will be adjusting to a significant change: personal smartphones and other electronic devices will no longer be part of the school day. The Stanley County School District has adopted a bell-to-bell cell phone policy, meaning st...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) - The University of Sioux Falls is offering a new form of competition in chess. The university announced it as a new collegiate sport, giving students a chance to get involved. The school currently has a club chess program...but not a competitive program. It's expected to begin in the fall ...

By Danielle Broadway Aug 25 (Reuters) - Dolly Parton, the irrepressible country music singer whose charisma, heartfelt lyrics and support of causes she believed in captured the public's imagination for nearly six decades, died on Tuesday aged 80. No ca...

LOS ANGELES Aug 25 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Tuesday there are no settlement talks scheduled with Paramount ​Skydance to resolve the antitrust suit ‌seeking to block the studio's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warn...

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: "Little Tiny Tasseltop," an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair. Her mother stored it preciously in a shoebox. "I loved that little doll," Parton wrote decades later....

(Refiles to remove extraneous text in paragraph two) By Jody Godoy Aug 24 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled a meeting with Paramount Skydance representatives scheduled for Monday to begin settlement talks over the state's lawsu...

ROME, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A documentary examining Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza was added to the Venice Film Festival line-up on Monday, the second year running that a highly charged work about ​the conflict has competed for the prestigious Gold...