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Former Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant has died
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Minnesota Vikings announced today former head coach Bud Grant has died. In a statement, the organization said "We are absolutely devastated to announce legendary Minnesota Vikings head coach and Hall of Famer Bud Grant has passed away this morning...We, like all Vikings and NFL ...
Mar 11, 2023
Your home for the Super Bowl is Fox Sports Radio FM 98.1/AM 1230, KWSN.com and the KWSN Mobile App
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KWSN.com) -- Fox Sports 98.1/AM 1230 KWSN Sioux Falls and Westwood One will be the exclusive network radio home of the Super Bowl. Addionally, listeners will now be able to stream the game live on KWSN.com and on their phone on the KWSN mobile app, for free. This year's contest is scheduled to be pla...
Feb 08, 2023
Vikings fire defensive coordinator Donatell after rough year
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Vikings have fired defensive coordinator Ed Donatell in an unsurprising decision on the veteran coach after a dismal finish by his defense. The Vikings ranked second worst in yards allowed in the NFL and fourth worst in points allowed during the regular season. They gave up 431 yards an...
Jan 20, 2023
SDSU Football Coach John Stiegelmeier retires; Program promotes Jimmy Rogers to Head Coach
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Longtime South Dakota State coach John Stiegelmeier announced his retirement Thursday, less than two weeks after the school won its first Football Championship Subdivision title. Defensive coordinator Jimmy Rogers was named Stiegelmeier's successor and was introduced Friday at a press co...
Jan 20, 2023
Chris Paddack, Twins finalize $12.5 million, 3-year contract
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Right-hander Chris Paddack and the Minnesota Twins finalized a $12,525,000, three-year contract on Wednesday, an agreement that allows the pitcher to earn an additional $2.5 million in the deal's final season. Paddack, recovering from Tommy John surgery, agreed Friday to a $2.4 million, one-year cont...
Jan 19, 2023
Sports News
Boxing-Garcia denies doping before Haney fight
(Reuters) - American super lightweight boxer Ryan Garcia has denied taking a banned performance-enhancing substance before his victory over WBC world champion Devin Haney in New York last month. ESPN, citing a leaked letter from the Voluntary Anti-...
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MLB roundup: Cubs' Shota Imanaga stellar again in win
Rookie Shota Imanaga had another strong start and Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the fifth inning Wednesday night as the visiting Chicago Cubs beat the New York Mets 1-0. Nico Hoerner had two hits and a stolen base for the Cubs...
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Comcast pulls Bally Sports channels, imperiling US broadcaster's restructuring
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cable provider Comcast stopped broadcasting Bally Sports channels on Wednesday, taking some MLB games off the air and imperiling the bankruptcy restructuring of the sports channels' operating company. Diamond...
12h ago
Steven Stamkos covets return to Tampa Bay for 17th season
Steven Stamkos has spent all 16 of his NHL seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning and he's highly interested in continuing the relationship. Stamkos, 34, is slated to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. But he said he had a preliminary conversa...
12h ago
Doping-USADA slams WADA for 'half-truths' in China doping case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) criticised the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Wednesday for "doubling down on half-truths", after the global body published a document outlining its handling of a case involving Chinese s...
12h ago
Local News
Higher education opportunity for former prisoners
BROOKINGS, SD (KELO.com) -- You could consider it a second chance powered by higher education. South Dakota State University was awarded a three-year, 150-thousand dollar grant by the Mellon foundation's Higher Education in Prison program. The effort is being led by Vice-Provost, Dr. Victor Taylor. He says it's pers...
Apr 30, 2024
Witness gives his account of deadly accident
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police are still working on the investigation into the deadly weekend crash that killed two teenagers, and probably will be working on it for several weeks. In the meantime they're relying on clips from neighborhood surveillance cameras - and witnesses like Steve Blumke who sa...
Apr 30, 2024
Two teens die in tragic crash
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- It was the most catastrophic accident he's seen in 17 years of police work. Sioux Falls Police Lieutenant Andrew Siebenborn arrived shortly after a deadly crash that killed two young teenagers at about 6 Saturday morning at 18th and Second Avenue. The crash took the lives of two 15 year o...
Apr 30, 2024
Two juveniles killed in Sioux Falls crash
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- An early Saturday morning crash has killed two juveniles. At 6 am a Dodge Durango SUV lost control and collided with a tree and a house at the intersection of East 18th Street and 2nd Avenue. There were at least 7 juveniles in the vehicle, with two pronounced dead at the scene and 5 take...
Apr 27, 2024
Sioux Area Metro seeking public input on proposed changes
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Area Metro -- SAM -- wants to hear from you. TransitTech provider Via operates the city's public transit network, and is opening its doors to public input. Via will host a drop-in session at the Downtown Library May 6th that you can attend in person or you can leave online fe...
Apr 26, 2024
State News
Abortion petitions filed - legal challenge on the way
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- More than 55-thousand petition signatures have been turned in on a proposed Constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights in South Dakota, but a legal challenge is on the way. Jon Hansen, Co-Chair of the Life Defense Fund - a group opposed to the amendment - says one of the things they'v...
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Noem under fire for treatment of puppy
PIERRE, S. D. (KELO.com) -- Governor Kristi Noem is raising the ire of animal lovers. In her soon to be published book "No Going Back", Noem recounts her killing of a 14-month-old puppy named Cricket that killed neighbors chickens, ruined a hunting trip and tried to bite her. She then shot Cricket dead in a g...
Apr 27, 2024
South Dakota spared from emissions ruling
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- South Dakota and 20 other states will not have to abide by greenhouse gas emission standards set out by the Federal Highway Administration. South Dakota Department of Transportation legal council Karla Engle says rules specifically targeted state transportation agencies. The standards were ch...
Apr 27, 2024
4-H takes aim in Pierre area
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Some of the best young shooters in South Dakota are in Fort Pierre and Pierre this weekend for the 4-H State Shoot. John Keimig says there are contest categories for pistols, rifles, BB guns and archery. The public is invited to watch the events.
Apr 27, 2024
National Drug Take Back Day
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- Attorney General Marty Jackley is encouraging people to take advantage of National Drug Take Back Day Saturday. It's an opportunity to safely dispose of unused medications. Jackley warns, "Unneeded or unused medication can be deadly if it is used by the wrong person or was not prescribed...
Apr 26, 2024
National News
India's Kerala shuts schools, colleges amid sweltering heat
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Kerala state has closed all schools and colleges until Monday due to scorching temperatures, urging people in the coastal region to limit exposure to the sun and take care to prevent wildfires. With most parts of India...
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Hailstorm ravages Chablis vineyards in French region of Burgundy
PARIS (Reuters) - A violent hailstorm ravaged vineyards on Wednesday in Chablis in the French region of Burgundy, with hailstones the size of ping pong balls slicing off leaves and damaging vines, winemakers said on Thursday. The storm that struck ...
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Trump hush-money trial judge to weigh more fines for defying gag order
By Jack Queen, Jody Godoy and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors on Thursday will ask the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to impose more fines on the former U.S. president for violating a gag order tha...
1h ago
Berkeley takes hands-off approach to Gaza campus protests. Columbia called the police
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - At Columbia University, tensions between the administration and students protesting over Israel's war in Gaza have reached the point that scores of New York City police marched onto campus to clear an encampment and arrest...
1h ago
Biden faces tough balancing act as campus protests over Gaza escalate
By Trevor Hunnicutt and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Escalating campus protests are forcing U.S. President Joe Biden to walk a careful line of denouncing antisemitism while supporting young Americans' right to protest and trying to limit l...
1h ago
World News
Israeli war cabinet to meet on hostages, Rafah plan on Thursday
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Top Israeli ministers will convene on Thursday to discuss a proposed Gaza truce to free some hostages held by Hamas, as well as prospects for an army sweep of the southern tip of the enclave packed with displaced Palestinians,...
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SNP lawmaker Swinney enters race to become Scotland's new leader
LONDON (Reuters) -Scottish National Party (SNP) lawmaker John Swinney said on Thursday that he would run in the contest to succeed outgoing leader Humza Yousaf as Scotland's first minister. "I intend to stand for election as leader of the Scottish Nati...
1h ago
Taliban plan regional energy trade hub with Russian oil in mind
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed at making the war-torn nation a major logistics point for regional expo...
1h ago
Soccer star's murder highlights South Africa's crime problem as election nears
By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - In the South African township where Luke Fleurs grew up, some friends joined gangs before they reached high school age, but Fleurs found another path: he was so brilliant at soccer that he rose to be a prof...
1h ago
EU offers 1 billion euros in economic, security support to Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The European Union has offered Lebanon a financial package of 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) to support its faltering economy and its security forces, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday during a...
1h ago
Business News
Futures climb as Fed allays rate-hike worries
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures advanced on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and allayed fears around potential rate hikes, with focus moving to a spate of earnings updates through the day. While Fed chai...
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Insurer Chubb prepares to pay $350 million in Baltimore bridge collapse, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed in March, is preparing to make a $350 million payout to the state of Maryland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The payment is expected to be authori...
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Lloyd's insurers expect moderate Baltimore bridge claims
LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyd's of London insurers Hiscox and Lancashire do not expect large insurance claims from the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March that caused widespread disruption, they said on Thursday. Some estimates for...
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Stanley Black and Decker's profit beats on strong industrial tool demand
(Reuters) - Stanley Black and Decker beat analysts' expectations for first-quarter profit on Thursday, as strong residential construction activity in the United States aided demand for its industrial tools and products. A tight supply of existing h...
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Moderna quarterly sales beat expectations but plummet from previous year
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) - Moderna on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that beat Wall Street estimates but came in dramatically lower than the previous year when demand for COVID-19 vaccines was higher. Sales of Moderna's COVID-19 shot Spi...
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Health News
Cigna sees strong annual profit on lower costs, pharmacy benefit strength
(Reuters) - Health insurer Cigna Group raised its annual profit forecast on Thursday, as lower-than-expected medical costs and strength in its pharmacy benefit management unit helped it beat first-quarter earnings estimates. The company now expects...
1h ago
India widens spices crackdown with nationwide checks on all manufacturers
By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD (Reuters) - India's food safety regulator said on Thursday it had ordered nationwide testing and inspections at all companies making spice mixes, widening a crackdown on the sector as global regulators investigate contam...
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Obesity drugmaker Novo Nordisk's Q1 profit beats forecast
LONDON (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk posted on Thursday first-quarter operating profit above analyst forecasts, as the Danish drugmaker races to boost output of its hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy and fend off competition from Eli Lilly. (Report...
5h ago
British pharmacies vie for weight-loss patients with drug price cuts
By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) - Online pharmacies and slimming clinics are cutting prices for Wegovy and Mounjaro in Britain just months after the weight-loss drugs were launched there, as initial supply shortages ease. But growing competition between...
6h ago
Bird flu test shows meat supply is safe, USDA says
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Wednesday that all the ground beef samples sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) for PCR testing, tested negative for H5N1 virus. "NVSL reported that all samples t...
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Science News
Scientists explore how to improve crop yields - on Mars
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining, a reliable source of home-grown food will be a must. It simply would be too costly and risky to rely upon rocket deliveries to meet the food needs of colon...
17h ago
Explainer-The Eta Aquariid meteor shower: When is it and what to expect?
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Meteors will be streaking across the sky as Earth passes through dusty debris in space left by Halley's Comet in the annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower, with peak activity in early May. Here is an explanation of this meteo...
May 01, 2024
T. rex is at the center of a debate over dinosaur intelligence
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur - or any extinct animal - based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so many uncertainties involved. Assessing a dinosaur's intelligence, considering...
Apr 30, 2024
What did people eat before agriculture? New study offers insight
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way hunter-gatherers had existed since Homo sapiens...
Apr 29, 2024
Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period in present da...
Apr 25, 2024
Technology News
Chip parts supplier Siltronic's profit falls on high client inventories
(Reuters) - German chip equipment supplier Siltronic reported a 27.5% drop in first-quarter core profit on Thursday, a week after it slashed annual targets due to customers' still high inventories. The company, which makes silicon wafers used in se...
5h ago
US official urges China, Russia to declare only humans, not AI, control nuclear weapons
By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Thursday urged China and Russia to match declarations by the United States and others that only humans, and never artificial intelligence, would make decisions on deploying nuclear weap...
6h ago
Microsoft to invest $2.2 billion in Malaysia's digital transformation
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Microsoft will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in Malaysia to support the country's digital transformation, the company said in a statement on Thursday. (Reporting by Danial Azhar and Rozanna Latiff; Editing b...
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Japan's Mitsubishi full-year profit down 18%, misses estimates
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp posted on Thursday a 18.4% fall in net profit for the year ended in March to 964 billion yen ($6.2 billion), missing estimates. A LSEG poll of analysts had forecast Mitsubishi's net profit fo...
7h ago
Nvidia supplier SK Hynix says HBM chips almost sold out for 2025
ICHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Hynix said on Thursday its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in AI chipsets are almost sold out for 2025, after their 2024 chips were fully booked. Chief Executive Officer Kwak Noh-Jung said the...
8h ago
Entertainment News
Jewish community anxious ahead of Sweden Eurovision anti-Israel protests
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Planned protests against Israel taking part in this year's Eurovision Song Contest have made members of the Jewish community in Swedish host city Malmo anxious, a representative of the community ...
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Universal Music Group reaches new licensing agreement with TikTok
By Dawn Chmielewski and David Shepardson (Reuters) - Universal Music Group and TikTok said on Thursday that they had reached a new licensing agreement that will restore the label's songs and artists to the social media platform. TikTok began removi...
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Harvey Weinstein expected in New York court after rape conviction overturned
By Brendan Pierson and Jack Queen (Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in state court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New York's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction last week. The hearing before Judge Curtis...
May 01, 2024
Factbox-All you need to know about Eurovision 2024
By Isabelle Yr Carlsson MALMÖ, Sweden (Reuters) - The world's biggest live music event, Eurovision Song Contest, will take place in Sweden in the second week of May with 37 participating countries. Roughly 100,000 visitors from 89 countries are exp...
Apr 30, 2024
'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Stereophonic' tie for most 2024 Tony nominations
(Reuters) - Alicia Keys' musical "Hell's Kitchen" and 1970's rock inspired "Stereophonic" led the nominations for the 2024 Tony awards, American theater's highest honors, followed by "The Outsiders," "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club" and "Appropriate."...
Apr 30, 2024