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Coyotes travel to Brookings to face rival Jackrabbits
BROOKINGS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- It's rivalry day in South Dakota. The Coyotes are in Brookings tonight to square off with the rival Jackrabbits. The Yotes come in ranked number four and the Jacks are ranked number three in the nation. Kickoff is at 6:30. You can hear the Coyote broadcast on 95.7 KQSF, or listen to the Ja...
Oct 26, 2024
Cougars travel to Wayne State to battle the Wildcats
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls (6-2, 5-2 NSIC) continues to receive votes in the AFCA Coaches' Poll as they hit the road to take on Wayne State (6-1, 5-1 NSIC) this weekend in Wayne, Nebraska. Kickoff is at 12 noon. You can hear the game on KWSN 98.1
Oct 26, 2024
Augie to collide with Minnesota State in Mankato
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The No. 25-ranked Augustana football team (5-2 overall, 5-1 NSIC) travels east for a Top-25 showdown against No. 13 Minnesota State on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff is slated for 1 p.m. The Vikings and Mavericks will meet for the 55th time in series history with the Mavericks leading 28-2...
Oct 26, 2024
Stampede overpower Storm 7-5
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- The Stampede weather a high-scoring game against the Tri-City Storm to take home the win. Newcomers Jake Merens and Ben Willmott made a statement while Stampede returner Gennadi Chaly earned three points to push the Stampede to a 7-5 win. Sioux Falls and Tri-City are back in action Satur...
Oct 19, 2024
Coyotes travel to Youngstown to take on the Penguins
YOUNGSTOWN, OH (KELO.com) -- The No. 4-ranked University of South Dakota football team (5-1, 3-0 MVFC) takes their four-game win streak into the eastern time zone for their second Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) road trip of the season when they face the Youngstown State Penguins (2-5, 1-2 MVFC) at 5:00 p.m....
Oct 19, 2024
Sports News
Tennis-Badosa stuns Gauff, Zverev downs Paul ahead of evening showdown
By Shrivathsa Sridhar MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Paula Badosa stunned Coco Gauff to reach her first Grand Slam semi-final and Alexander Zverev overcame Tommy Paul to book his ninth as the Australian Open awaited the blockbuster Tuesday evening clash bet...
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NBA roundup: Pelicans come back from down 25, top Jazz in OT
CJ McCollum scored six of his 45 points in overtime and the host New Orleans Pelicans set a franchise record by overcoming a 25-point deficit in defeating the Utah Jazz 123-119 on Monday night. Dejounte Murray had 26 points and 11 assists, Trey Murphy...
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NHL roundup: Penguins end Kings' home winning streak
Kevin Hayes, Sidney Crosby and Anthony Beauvillier each had a goal and an assist to help the Pittsburgh Penguins end the Los Angeles Kings' nine-game home winning streak with a 5-1 victory on Monday night. Evgeni Malkin and Cody Glass also scored and ...
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Will Howard shines in spotlight, carries Ohio State to title
All Ohio State quarterback Will Howard ever wanted was a chance to show off his talents. The spotlight was all his on Monday night. Howard built off a record-breaking first half to complete 17 of 21 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns, lifting th...
2h ago
Ohio State starts hot, holds off Notre Dame for national title
ATLANTA -- Ohio State had nine third-down conversions on Monday, but only one will be remembered as the play that essentially cemented the Buckeyes as champions. Eighth-seeded Ohio State had to overcome a lot to put itself within minutes of a title --...
2h ago
Local News
Cold weather closes the slopes at Great Bear
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com ) -- You know it's cold when the ski slopes are closed - and that's the case at Great Bear Ski Valley in Sioux Falls. Temps will stay below zero today, and head down to near 20-below tonight. Great Bear will offer half-priced tubing when it reopens in warmer weather tomorrow.
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Red flag warning includes Lincoln, Turner counties as winds increase fire danger
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- Fire conditions are dangerous Thursday, especially in the southern part of the KELO Radio listening area. The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for dangerous fire conditions for much of southeastern South Dakota and northwest Iowa. The warning includes Lincoln and Tu...
Jan 16, 2025
Governor Noem welcome to return to Flandreau Santee land
FLANDREAU, SD (KELO.com) -- Some mending of fences between Governor Kristi Noem and South Dakota tribes. The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has lifted its ban of the Governor on tribal lands. That follows an apology from the Governor over statements on cartel involvement on the reservations. Other tribes are said to b...
Jan 16, 2025
Sioux Falls Outdoor Ice Rinks open for 2025 season
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation has announced the opening of its six free-to-use outdoor ice rinks for the 2025 season. These rinks are located in various city parks and will be open daily from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. when weather permits. "Our team closely watches the weather for the rig...
Jan 16, 2025
Sioux Falls man arrested on forgery, drug charges in Watertown
WATERTOWN, SD (KELO.com) -- A Sioux Falls man is in trouble for allegedly passing a fake 50-dollar bill in Watertown over the weekend. 54-year old Scott Robertson faces forgery and other charges. A search warrant produced evidence on the forgery, as well as drugs.
Jan 14, 2025
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Biden commutes AIM activist's prison sentence in final minutes of Presidency
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO.com) -- He's been in prison for 48 years for murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and Attorney General Marty Jackley says that's where he should stay. But he won't. In one of his final acts as President, Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of American Indian Activist Leona...
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Online age verification measure wins strong endorsement in committee
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Legislators have the day off to observe Martin Luther King, Junior Day, but they'll be back in action tomorrow. One of the things they'll tackle this week is a bill to require age verification for websites that contain harmful material for minors, like pornography. Republican Rep...
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Legislators working on what could be first measure for 2026 ballot
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Legislators think it may be time to make it more difficult to amend the state constitution. A legislative committee endorsed raising the bar to 60-percent for approval of amendments on the ballot. Primary sponsor, Representative John Hughes of Sioux Falls says the hope is to prev...
14h ago
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House committee approves fail-safe funding measure on Medicaid expansion
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota Legislators have taken the first step in placing a proposed constitutional Amendment on the 2026 ballot. It deals with Medicaid Expansion, which was placed in the Constitution by voters in 2022. The plan provides medical treatment for people who can't afford it, with the Federal ...
14h ago
South Dakota Medicaid expansion faces potential threat
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) -- A proposed bill introduced Friday in the State Legislature may affect South Dakotans on Medicaid. The measure would remove the constitutional requirement for Medicaid expansion if federal funding drops below its current 90% share. The state currently pays 10% of the costs. opponents warn that...
Jan 18, 2025
National News
Nigeria oil spill and fire sparks concern from environmental groups
By Tife Owolabi YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate action taken by authorities or operators to hal...
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Trump's inauguration through the eyes of Reuters photographers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump was covered by 17 photographers for Reuters in Washington. From a bird's eye view of the U.S. capital to the president's table setting for luncheon to trash left strewn outside ...
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Factbox-Trump's inner circle offers different perspectives on dealing with China
By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's picks for senior posts in his administration include several people with deep ties to China, but several have divergent views on how to deal with Washington's biggest rival, including...
2h ago
Trump says his team is in process of removing over thousand Biden appointees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his team was in the process of removing over a thousand appointees from the administration of former President Joe Biden, as the Republican announced four removals on social media, inclu...
2h ago
Trump's inaugural brings the world's billionaire elites en masse to DC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attendees at a U.S. presidential inauguration do not often resemble the annual gathering of the world's richest in Davos, Switzerland, which kicked off on Monday, but the parallels were hard to ignore as Donald Trump was ...
2h ago
World News
Spain's Deputy PM Diaz withdraws from Elon Musk's X platform
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Labour Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz said on Tuesday she will withdraw from Elon Musk's social media platform X due in part to the billionaire's behaviour during events linked to President Donald Trump's...
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Russia-China ties play a stabilising role in international affairs, Putin tells Xi
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Moscow and Beijing's foreign policy ties played a stabilising role in international affairs. The two leaders were speaking on a video call. (Repo...
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Putin vows to further develop ties with Xi just hours after Trump inauguration
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday in which he proposed further developing their strategic partnership just hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th U.S. presi...
27m ago
Thailand's visa waiver for Chinese tourists under fire after string of crimes
By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK - Thailand's visa waiver programme for Chinese nationals has come under scrutiny after the high-profile alleged kidnapping of a Chinese actor and similar crimes stoked worries over tourism and...
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Congo's M23 rebels seize eastern town of Minova
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels have seized the eastern town of Minova, a main supply route for the provincial capital Goma, a rebel spokesperson and the provincial governor said on Tuesday. ...
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Business News
Exclusive-Aramco chief expects additional oil demand of 1.3 million bpd this year
By Marwa Rashad DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -Saudi oil giant Aramco's Chief Executive Amin Nasser said on Tuesday he sees the oil market as healthy and expects an additional 1.3 million barrels per day of demand this year. Speaking to Reuters on the s...
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Investors 'make Europe great again' with big stock allocation, BofA says
MILAN (Reuters) - European stocks saw their second largest allocation in a quarter of a century in January, as lagging risk assets played catch up, according to a survey of investors from BofA Global Research published on Tuesday. In a report title...
12m ago
Taiwan December export orders jump, Trump clouds outlook
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's export orders grew at their fastest pace in nearly three years last month boosted by demand for artificial intelligence technologies, and China, though tariff threats from the new administration of Donald Trump cloud the...
12m ago
German exporters expect 2.7% drop in sales in 'bleak' 2025, trade body says
By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) - About 80% of German businesses who trade overseas expect a further decline in sales this year, Germany's BGA trade association said on Tuesday, forecasting a 2.7% decline in turnover compared with 2024. "The out...
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Samsung, LG may move some home-appliance manufacturing from Mexico to US, paper says
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are considering moving some manufacturing of home appliances from their Mexican plants to their U.S. plants, a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday. The review comes as U....
12m ago
Health News
Swiss biopharma firm BioVersys plans IPO in first quarter
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss biopharma company BioVersys said on Tuesday it plans to list on the Swiss stock exchange in the first quarter with an initial public offering that aims to raise around 80 million Swiss francs ($88 million). The Basel-based ...
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Trump signs executive order withdrawing from the World Health Organization
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises. Trump said the WHO had fai...
8h ago
Tanzania confirms outbreak of Marburg virus
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far. "Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in K...
20h ago
New case of mpox variant clade Ib detected in England
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's health security agency (UKHSA) said on Monday another case of the mpox variant clade Ib has been detected in England, the sixth case confirmed in the country since October last year. The government agency said the risk ...
20h ago
US and Canada ease ban on French poultry imposed after bird flu vaccination
PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and Canada have lifted embargoes on certain French poultry imports imposed after Paris decided to vaccinate ducks against bird flu in October 2023, the French agriculture ministry said on Monday. Highly pathogeni...
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Science News
Great white shark's 9-million-year-old ancestor found in Peru
LIMA (Reuters) - Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines. The nearly-complete Co...
11h ago
US FAA opens probe into SpaceX's Starship explosion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it will oversee an investigation by Elon Musk's SpaceX into an explosive Starship test flight the previous day that forced airlines to divert dozens of flights to avoid ...
Jan 17, 2025
Ancient Pompeii excavation uncovers lavish private bath complex
ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed a lavish private bath complex in Pompeii, highlighting the wealth and grandeur of the ancient Roman city before it was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the site said on Friday. The baths, featurin...
Jan 17, 2025
Pakistan launches first home-made observation satellite
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan launched its first home-made observation satellite on Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China, Pakistan's space agency said. The PRSC-EO1 satellite will boost Pakistan's ability to monitor and ...
Jan 17, 2025
Scientist bottles smell of bones to help solve cold cases
By Julia Payne GEMBLOUX, Belgium (Reuters) - A Belgian research scientist is working with the federal police to create a scent that mimics the smell of dried human bones to help sniffer dogs find long lost remains. Clement Martin has already isolat...
Jan 17, 2025
Technology News
Samsung, LG may move some home-appliance manufacturing from Mexico to US, paper says
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are considering moving some manufacturing of home appliances from their Mexican plants to their U.S. plants, a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday. The review comes as U....
12m ago
Bitcoin, $Trump slide, waiting for crypto president Trump's promises
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and even the newly minted token bearing Donald Trump's name recoiled on Tuesday, after the U.S. president's first set of policies following inauguration made no reference to ...
1h ago
Trump's inaugural brings the world's billionaire elites en masse to DC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attendees at a U.S. presidential inauguration do not often resemble the annual gathering of the world's richest in Davos, Switzerland, which kicked off on Monday, but the parallels were hard to ignore as Donald Trump was ...
2h ago
TSMC says all its sites operating following Taiwan quake
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Chipmaker TSMC said on Tuesday that all its sites were operating following an overnight earthquake in southern Taiwan. "Post-earthquake structural inspections have been completed at all sites, confirming that the structures are s...
6h ago
Trump signs promised TikTok order delaying ban of app
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order to delay a ban of popular short-video app TikTok that was slated to be shuttered on Jan. 19. When asked what TikTok order does, Trump said "just gave me the right to sell ...
9h ago
Entertainment News
Fencing-Iron Maiden's Dickinson shows his mettle in France
PARIS (Reuters) - Iron Maiden will not be back on tour before May, yet the heavy metal band frontman Bruce Dickinson was on stage on Sunday, taking part in a veteran fencing competition in northern France. The 66-year-old Dickinson has been practis...
23h ago
Vivendi's new 'galaxy' of companies needs more time to explain strategy, analysts and investors say
By Gianluca Lo Nostro, Florence Loeve and Paul Sandle GDANSK/PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Vivendi management and bosses of some of its newly spun out companies - Canal+, Havas and Louis Hachette Group - need to lay out more clearly their strategies to ...
Jan 20, 2025
British actor Joan Plowright dies aged 95
LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Joan Plowright, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, has died aged 95, her family said on Friday. Plowright made her on-screen debut in 1956's "Moby Dick" before gaining wider recognition in the 1960 ...
Jan 17, 2025
Ambani venture to livestream Coldplay show in Ahmedabad
By Indranil Sarkar (Reuters) - British rock-band Coldplay has partnered with Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's broadcast venture to livestream one of its two upcoming concerts in Ahmedabad, as international artists step up efforts to reach Indian ...
Jan 17, 2025
Key suspect detained in Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan stabbing incident, TV channels say
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Police in India's financial capital of Mumbai have detained a key suspect in the knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, TV channels reported on Friday. Khan, 54, was stabbed six times by an intruder during a burglary atte...
Jan 17, 2025