SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Celebrating the nation's 250th birthday wouldn't be complete without a parade. With that in mind, organizers are ramping up their efforts to restore the July 4th parade in Sioux Falls for the first time in four years. Army Veteran Aaron Levisay has been working on the project for months,...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- His criminal syndicate introduced fentanyl powder to the Sioux Falls market. Now, a Las Vegas man faces up to life in prison and a 20-million dollar fine. Quantiae Harris was convicted of meth and fentanyl distribution, and money laundering. He led the drug distribution ring, based in C...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.c0m) -- How do you measure success? For Sioux Falls Fire and Rescue, it's 30-thousand free smoke alarms installed in nine-thousand homes. The Department has been installing the alarms free of charge since 2007. Officials say it's part of their mission to get as many smoke alarms into as many hom...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- A Sioux Falls man is behind bars today after an officer-involved shooting Tuesday afternoon. The Police Violent Crimes Unit had been looking for 36-year old Richard Olson of Sioux Falls for the past week on a federal weapons violation. When officers blocked him at a gas station near Russ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's a timely gift that will have a huge impact. Marmen Energy has hired a number of graduates from Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls at its facility in Brandon, and likes what it sees. The company is donating a million dollars for the planned James Abdnor Center for Advanced Ma...

UNDATED (KELO.com) -- Do hyper scale data centers and higher electric rates go hand-in-hand? Data Center opponents often site that as a major concern, but studies question if there's a relationship between the two. Creighton University Economist Dr. Ernie Goss says a study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows just...

MCCOOK LAKE, SD (KELO.com) -- Nearly two years after a devastating flood, the McCook Lake Association is refilling the lake with water from the Missouri River. The water level is now about seven feet below its normal depth of ten feet. The level will rise about two inches per day as it's refilled. Officials are hopi...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- State Education Department officials are looking for those who want to go to the head of the class. Applications are open for the 4th Cohort of the South Dakota Teacher Apprenticeship Pathway. It gives teacher aides and paraprofessionals the opportunity to become certified teachers. DOE Dire...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Property rights and eminent domain took up a fair share of last night's Republican Gubernatorial debate hosted by KELOLAND-TV. Larry Rhoden and Dusty Johnson expressed the need to protect property owner rights while remaining open for growth. Jon Hansen and Toby Doeden focused on concern...

PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Recipients of 'Temporary Assistance for Needy Families' will see a five percent bump in their benefits. That follows action by the Legislature's Appropriations Committee Monday. The federal share of the money will come from carryover funds.

April 4 (Reuters) - Louisiana police have charged a man with impaired driving after his car slammed into a crowd during a community parade on Saturday, ​injuring several people, some critically. Louisiana State Police ‌said they arrested Todd Landry, 5...

By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - The family of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre on Saturday urged Britain's King Charles to meet with survivors during his state visit to the United States later this ​month, saying the trip coincides...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have detained the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their ​lawful permanent resident status, the ...

NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - A judge's order to stop construction work on a White House ballroom poses security risks, the Trump administration argued in an emergency motion that ​seeks to set aside the ruling. The emergency motion filed ‌on Friday in...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration cannot force public universities in 17 U.S. states to turn over sweeping amounts of data so it can examine whether they have ceased considering race as ​an admissions factor, a federa...

April 5 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr ​Zelenskiy ‌has made his first visit ‌to ​Syria ⁠to hold ⁠a meeting with his counterpart Ahmed ​al-Sharaa, two ⁠Syrian ⁠sources told ​Reuters on ​Sunday. The talks were ‌linked to defence in ⁠light of t...

LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the traditional Easter service at Windsor Castle on Sunday, joined by his eldest son and heir to ​the throne Prince William, wife Catherine, and their three ‌children at St G...

By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, ​April ‌5 (Reuters) - U.S. President ‌Donald ​Trump ⁠on Sunday ⁠said in a Truth ​Social ⁠post ⁠that "Tuesday ​will be ​Power Plant ‌Day, and Bridge ⁠Day, all wrapped ⁠up ‌in ⁠one, ​in ‌Iran." (Reporting by ​Bo ⁠Erickson; edit...

MOSCOW, April 5 (Reuters) - A cargo ship carrying wheat ​has sunk in ‌the Sea of Azov, leaving one person dead and two ‌missing, ​a ⁠Russian-installed official said ⁠on Sunday in a post on the Telegram messaging app. Vladimir ​Saldo, Moscow-installed l...

April 5 (Reuters) - ​The ‌Lebanese army said ‌on ​Sunday ⁠that ⁠a soldier ​had ⁠been ⁠killed in ​an ​Israeli strike ‌on southern ⁠Lebanon. (Reporting by Menna ⁠Alaa ‌El-Din ⁠and ​Muhammad ‌Al ​Gebaly; ⁠Editing by Hugh ​Lawson)...

By Jonathan Spicer and Marc Jones LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - Turkey's central bank chief and finance minister have told investors they are confident in the steps taken to address the fallout from the Iran war, according to three meeting participants, ...

By Olesya Astakhova, Alex Lawler and Ahmad Ghaddar MOSCOW/LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - OPEC+ has agreed in principle to raise its oil output quotas by 206,000 barrels per day for May, three sources with knowledge of the group's talks said ahead of its m...

TAIPEI, April 5 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported a 29.7% on-year rise in first-quarter revenue on strong demand for artificial ​intelligence products, though it cautioned about "volatile" global pol...

April 5 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's non-oil private sector activity contracted in March for the first time since August 2020, as the war in the ​Middle East snarled up supply chains, a business ‌survey showed on Sunday. The seasonally adjusted Riyad Ban...

April 5 (Reuters) - Egypt's non-oil private sector deteriorated at its sharpest pace in almost two years in March, as the Middle East war drove ​up costs and dampened client demand, a closely ‌watched business survey showed on Sunday. The headline S&P ...

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- The USD Coyote women were on fire Thursday night, so it's on to the 'Great 8' of the Women's National Invitational Tournament. The Coyotes jumped out to a 14-0 lead over Pepperdine - all of those points scored by Patience Williams. They'll host Montana State Sunday afternoon at the Sanfor...

VERMILLION, SD (KELO.com) -- The USD Coyote women's basketball squad is on the national stage, facing Pepperdine in the Super 16 in the Women's National Invitational Tournament Thursday night. The Coyotes are led by guard combo Angelina Robles and Molly Joyce in USD's seventh WNIT run. The Coyotes won the WNIT in 201...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sanford Pentagon will host the state's first-ever WNBA game next month. The Phoenix Mercury, coached by Sioux Falls native Nate Tibbetts, will take on the Chicago Sky April 25th. The Mercury will also host a youth basketball clinic at the Pentagon April 24th.

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It's official. March Madness has arrived in Sioux Falls with the Summit League men's and women's basketball championships. The first game is Wednesday night, featuring ORU and Kansas City. The city is going all out, creating 'Summit League Central' at Jacobson Plaza at The Falls, free p...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- The Sioux Falls Youth Hockey Association girls varsity team will host a "Grey-Out" Game vs Aberdeen on Sunday, February 15 at Scheels Iceplex to honor former standout goaltender and Brandon native, Riley Vander Esch, as she battles diffuse midline glioma, a very rare and aggress...

By Marleen Kaesebier ZURICH, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's 100% tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry threaten global production, supply chains and ultimately ​will harm patients, Switzerland's pharmaceutical association interpharm...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid April 3 (Reuters) - Doctors should not automatically rule out surgery for octogenarians with early-stage lung cancer...

(Refiles to adjust the dateline) By Daphne Zhang and Naveen Thukral April 3 (Reuters) - China has tightened border controls, fast-tracked vaccines and begun culling cattle after a small outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the northwest that officials...

By Ammu Kannampilly and Jennifer Rigby NAIROBI/LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. is upending the way it delivers medical supplies for diseases such as HIV and malaria to lower-income countries, according to seven sources and an internal email, riski...

By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD, India, April 3 (Reuters) - Soon-to-be brides and grooms seeking shortcuts to shed pounds before the big day have become the latest consumer target for weight-loss drugs in India. New Delhi wellness clinic Klarity Skin Clinic...

April 3 (Reuters) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that the company's next Starship test flight ​will take place in May ‌and not April as originally scheduled. Musk posted on social media platform X that the next flight of Starship's V3 vehicle wa...

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The White ​House ‌on Friday proposed a $5.6 billion ‌cut ​to ⁠NASA's budget ⁠for 2027, including a $3.4 billion ​cut to ⁠the ⁠space agency's ​science unit, ​a 23% cut ‌as NASA's new ⁠chief plans an array of ⁠new ‌mission...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) - Beijing-based rocket developer Space Pioneer said on Friday that the maiden flight of its reusable rocket Tianlong-3 failed, highlighting the challenge China's rocket developers face in catching up to El...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosive death of a star - is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron star or black hole. But some supernovas...

By Joey Roulette ORLANDO, Florida, April 2 (Reuters) - The Orion capsule carrying four astronauts in NASA's Artemis II mission executed a key thruster firing on Thursday that will kick the crew out of Earth's orbit and on a path toward the moon, commit...

TAIPEI, April 5 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported a 29.7% on-year rise in first-quarter revenue on strong demand for artificial ​intelligence products, though it cautioned about "volatile" global pol...

April 5 (Reuters) - Britain is trying to tempt Anthropic to expand its presence in the country, ​as it seeks to capitalise ‌on a fight between the maker of artificial intelligence app Claude and the U.S. Defense Department, the Financial Times said on ...

MOSCOW, April 4 (Reuters) - Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Saturday ​Russia's attempt ‌to block Virtual Private Networks triggered a problem with a domestic payment system, ‌adding ​that tens ⁠of millions ⁠of Russians were now resisting the digit...

April 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk is requiring banks and other advisers working on SpaceX's planned IPO to buy ​subscriptions to Grok, his artificial ‌intelligence chatbot, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Some...

April 3 (Reuters) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that the company's next Starship test flight ​will take place in May ‌and not April as originally scheduled. Musk posted on social media platform X that the next flight of Starship's V3 vehicle wa...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - HBO Max will air the third and final season premiere of "Euphoria" on Sunday, April 12, at the Coachella ​Valley Music and Arts Festival, the first time ‌a television series has screened at the icon...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the 11‑time Tony Award-winning musical "Hamilton," will direct a musical film adaptation of ​Dave Malloy's chamber choir musical "Octet" as his ‌next feature ...

By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed actor Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims in her lawsuit against actor and director Justin Baldoni, significantly narrowing her case over the film...

By Jasper Ward April 2 (Reuters) - American rapper Pooh Shiesty and seven others were arrested on charges of robbery and armed kidnapping of music ​industry figures, the U.S. Justice Department said ‌on Thursday. The DOJ listed the initials R.D. as one...

(Corrects paragraph 19 to show Sony Pictures Animation produced KPop Demon Hunters) By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - After losing its bid for Warner Bros Discovery's rich trove of characters and stories, Netflix is...