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...

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) - Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time on Saturday in a final overshadowed by five countries' boycott over Gaza, claiming a dramatic victory despite another big public vote for Israel t...

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...