Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- Sioux Falls police say a 66-year-old local man is the victim of an online fraud that has cost him 67-thousand dollars. The victim has cancer and was in contact with a woman on a messaging app. Police Information Officer, Sgt. Aaron Benson says the woman told the victim he would be receivin...

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- You get the rare chance to turn a 20-dollar bill into a hundred tomorrow. The Salvation Army Red Kettle Bell Drive has become a key part of the ministry's fundraising efforts for the past 15 years. Board member John Mogen says community members are matching donations tomorrow. Mogen says o...

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- Grab some extra blankets and put on extra layers if you're headed outdoors this weekend. Another Alberta clipper is headed our way with several inches of snow and bitterly cold temperatures. The high tomorrow is expected to stay in the single-digit range, with tomorrow night's low expected...

South Dakota (KELO.com) -- Lottery fever is setting in again, as the Powerball Jackpot rises above the one-billion-dollar mark for tomorrow night's drawing. It's been more than three months since someone took home the Powerball grand prize.

Sioux Falls, SD (KELO.com) -- An anonymous donor is covering the cost of student lunches at Madison elementary school. The 15-thousand dollar gift buys lunch for all 525 students for the entire week. Madison's principal says the donation was made by a local business owner.

Madison, SD (KELO.com) -- Another group of new teachers just received their diplomas, thanks to the South Dakota Teacher Apprenticeship Pathway. The program allows paraprofessionals to earn their teaching degrees while still working in their local school system. 15 students graduated from Dakota State University Saturd...

South Dakota, (KELO.com) -- South Dakota is set to produce unmanned combat aircraft weapons, after a company was awarded a 35-million-dollar defense contract. The Dakota Scout was given exclusive media access to a meeting featuring state, local and federal officials. MMS Product, Inc. is developing weapons systems that...

Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- South Dakota's new Office of Indigent Legal Services is just getting off the ground, but timing may be a problem. The Office is handling a limited number of cases, mainly for criminal appeals, abuse and neglect. Supporters would like to see the service grow, but Chair Neil Fulton says with this...

Beresford, SD (KELO.com) -- A Beresford area cattle producer says a Missouri man and his companies swindled him out of millions of dollars' worth of livestock and beef. The Dakota Scout reports Joseph Schumacher is suing Brian Lillie and Best Beef Holdings, for failing to pay Schumacher for Wagyu beef valued at more th...

Pierre, SD (KELO.com) -- Governor Larry Rhoden's budget proposal did not include an increase in state funding for schools. His 'hold the line' approach in a tight budget year is generating plenty of disappointment. Some representatives suggested one-time funds that could help this year. However, Representative Tim Reis...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's plan to build a $300 million ballroom on White House grounds faces an early courtroom test on Tuesday after preservationists accused him of illegally tearing down the East Wing in ‍a sweeping make...

By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance will travel to Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley on Tuesday to highlight the administration's economic message, a week after President Donald Trump visited the battleground sta...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Annual global insured losses from natural catastrophes are expected to hit $107 billion in 2025, driven by the Los Angeles wildfires and severe convective storms in parts of the United ‍States, a Swiss Re Institute study showed on Tu...

NAJAF, Iraq, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Iraqi wheat farmer Ma'an al-Fatlawi has long depended on the nearby Euphrates River to feed his fields near the city of Najaf. But this year, those waters, which made the Fertile Crescent a cradle of ancient civilisation...

COPENHAGEN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Norwegian police said on Tuesday they have fined ‍Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor over pollution at the group's Mongstad refinery on Norway's west coast. The fine, ‌based on "years of ‌inadequate maintenance" was se...

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will hold closed, classified briefings for all U.S. senators and representatives on Tuesday about the Trump administration's strate...

By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD, India, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Indian police said on Tuesday that the dead gunman in Australia's Bondi beach shooting incident, Sajid Akram, was ‍originally from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad but had limited contact with ...

By Philip Blenkinsop STRASBOURG, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Germany and the EU executive have been making a last-ditch attempt to convince Italy to back a free trade agreement with South American bloc Mercosur, which will ‍falter if not signed soon, a leading ...

LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Britain's British Broadcasting Corporation ‍said on Tuesday it will fight a lawsuit filed by U.S. ‌President Donald ‌Trump over edited clips of a speech that made it appear ​he directed supporters to ‍storm ​the U.S. Capitol ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr ‍Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Russia ‌must be ‌held responsible for the "crime of aggression". Zelenskiy was speaking ​in The ‍Hague ​ahead of ​a conference ‍to establish an International Claims Commis...

Keyonte George scored 37 points -- his second straight 30-plus-point game -- and dished out six assists while leading the Utah Jazz to a 140-133 overtime victory against the Dallas Mavericks on Monday in Salt Lake City. Utah overcame a historic perfor...

Keyonte George scored 37 points -- his second straight 30-plus-point game -- and dished out six assists while leading the Utah Jazz to a 140-133 overtime victory against the Dallas Mavericks on Monday ‍in Salt Lake City. Utah overcame a historic perfo...

Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and Kenneth Gainwell amassed 126 scrimmage yards to help the host Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Miami Dolphins 28-15 on Monday night. The Steelers (8-6) won their second game in a ‍row and maintained a one-game ...

After Jake Sanderson tied it with a goal late in regulation, Brady Tkachuk scored 2:11 into overtime as the Ottawa Senators rallied for a 3-2 victory over the host Winnipeg Jets on Monday night. Tim Stutzle contributed with three assists, including a ...

Ha-Seong Kim, who joined the Atlanta Braves late last season, will stick around for at least one more year. The 30-year-old free agent signed a one-year, $20 million contract with the Braves on ‍Monday, and he will remain the team's starting shortstop...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Both former ‍Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and White ‌House economic ‌adviser Kevin Hassett are qualified to lead the ​Federal Reserve, ‍U.S. ​Treasury Secretary ​Scott Bessent ‍told Fox Business Network on Tuesday, adding ‍th...

By Maria Martinez BERLIN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - German investor morale rose more than expected in December, the ZEW economic research institute said on Tuesday, as expectations about Germany's economic situation improve. The index rose to 45.8 points in ‍...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - An investor group led by Consortium Brand Partners is buying California Pizza Kitchen and has tapped the CEO of Convive Brands to run its restaurants, the company told Reuters on Tuesday, five years after the chain's pandemic-driven ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slipped on Tuesday as caution set in ahead of a highly anticipated jobs report that could offer insight into the health of the economy and the potential path for interest rates next year. A recent historic ‍g...

By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Fourteen of the largest U.S. retail banks posted jumps in the income they generated from overdraft and bounced-check fees during the first nine months of the year, while two big banks reported sharp de...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - South Korea-based ADEL said late on Monday that it has entered a $1.04 ‍billion partnership with French drugmaker Sanofi to develop and sell the biotech company's experimental Alzheimer's disease treatment. Under the terms of the agr...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. ‍Food and Drug Administration has ‌no ‌plans to put a "black box" warning ​on ‍COVID-19 ​vaccines, ​Bloomberg News ‍reported on Monday, citing ‍the agency's top official ‍Marty ‍Makary. (Reporting ​by ​Mariam ⁠Sunny ‌in Ben...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - President ‍Donald Trump said on ‌Monday ‌he is considering signing an executive order ​to ‍reclassify ​marijuana as ​a ‍less dangerous drug. "We are looking at ‍that very strongly," ‍Trump ‍told ​reporters in ​the ⁠Oval ‌...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to four major retailers for continuing to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial ‍illness in infants, even after the products were recalled, the h...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. ‍Food and Drug Administration ‌has ‌approved Daiichi Sankyo's therapy in combination with ​Roche's drug ‍for ​the first-line ​treatment ‍of patients with a type of ‍breast cancer, the ‍regulator ‍said ​on Monday. (Reportin...

MOSCOW, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Russia's space agency said on Tuesday that work was underway to repair a damaged launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome ‍in Kazakhstan that underpins its space programme and that the facility should be back in use by February ...

ROME, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process ‍into 'pastries' with high nutritional content. Italy's rich culinary tradit...

By Joey Roulette, Ross Kerber and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to reach Mars with growing the revenue-rich Starlink s...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' aerospace firm Blue Origin has been working for over a year on the necessary technology for artificial intelligence data centers ‍in space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the ...

By Will Dunham Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago - revealing that this milest...

By Deepa Seetharaman, Supantha Mukherjee and Krystal Hu SAN FRANCISCO/STOCKHOLM, Dec 16 - Last spring, CellarTracker, a wine-collection app, built an AI-powered sommelier to make unvarnished wine recommendations based on a person's palate. The problem...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Global smartphone shipments are expected to decline 2.1% next year as rising chip costs are likely to impact demand, ‍technology-focused market research firm Counterpoint said on Tuesday. Electronics supply chains around the world ha...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - France's TotalEnergies said on Tuesday it had signed a 21-year ‍power supply deal with Alphabet's Google, pledging to supply 1 terawatt hour of renewable energy to support its ‌data centres in Malaysia. The ‌French energy major said ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - A coalition of 20 app developers and consumer groups on Tuesday called upon European regulators to enforce EU laws against Apple, saying the company's fee structure unfairly disadvantages European ‍developers compared to their U.S. r...

BEIJING/HONG KONG, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Chinese AI chip startup Biren Technology aims to launch a Hong Kong initial public offering in the coming weeks, four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The IPO could raise $300 million, local ‍Chinese medi...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The host broadcaster of the next Eurovision Song Contest, Austria's ORF, will not ban the Palestinian flag from the audience or drown out booing during Israel's performance as has happened at ‍previous show...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nick Reiner, 32, ‍was arrested on Sunday evening and was ‌being held ‌on $4 million bail, booking information from the Los Angeles ​Sheriff's Office showed. The ‍arrest ​comes as ​police continued their ‍investigation aft...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Netflix's decision to acquire assets from Warner Bros Discovery has not changed, its co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos said ‍in a letter to employees on Monday. The streaming giant won Warner Bros' vote earlier this month, securin...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A decade after making his feature film debut with acclaimed drama "Masaan", Indian director Neeraj Ghaywan returns with a second movie that seeks to give a voice to ‍people who feel invisible. Based on true e...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Get ready to head back to the wasteland of the Mojave Desert. "Fallout" star Walton Goggins is teasing that the show's second season will heavily channel the ‍spirit of "Fallout: New Vegas", the vide...