Peaceful ending to Dakotah Lodge standoff
Sioux Falls, S.D. (KELO AM) - The suspect holding a woman inside a room at the Dakotah Lodge on Russell has surrendered without incident.Police Capt. Loren McManus says 34 year old Troy Chase turned...
View ArticleJaber pleads guilty to weapons charges
Pierre, S.D. (KELO AM) - Ehab Abdulmutta Jaber, the man best known for flashing weapons and saying "be scared" in a Facebook live video after he was asked to leave a Christian seminar at a Sioux Falls...
View ArticleHighway Patrol focusing on seat belts and distracted driving.
PIERRE, SD (KELO AM) - The South Dakota Highway Patrol is focusing on seat belt use this summer. Most recent vehicle fatalities have been due people not belted in.Highway Patrol Superintendent Colonel...
View ArticleSioux Falls Resident Arrested for 1st & 2nd Degree Manslaughter & More
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) Jeremy Alan Eischens, a 27 year old Sioux Falls resident, has been arrested for first and second degree manslaughter, 3 counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance,...
View ArticleNoem says "doing nothing" on health care not good
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO-AM) -- With the Senate failing to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, health care reform may be dead, at least for the time being.The U.S. House had earlier passed their...
View ArticleLaw school to Sioux Falls committee prepares
VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO-AM) -- A panel that could decide the location of the USD School of Law will hold their first meeting next Monday in Vermillion.USD President Jim Abbott appointed members to the...
View ArticleSioux Falls CAP getting drone education
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) The Civil Air Patrol's Sioux Falls Composite Squadron has started a Quadcopter Corps, to be ready when drones become part of emergency search and rescue.Currently, the CAP...
View ArticleMORE DETAILS on Friday's motel standoff
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) Turns out the man who held off Sioux Falls Police for nearly six hours at the Dakotah Lodge Friday knew his two hostages.The woman and young girl were not hurt.Troy Allen...
View ArticleMore construction energy for Uptown Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) A new place to work, live and play is coming to the Uptown area of downtown Sioux Falls.The city has picked the Lloyd Companies to build a $43.5 million mixed use...
View ArticleIt works in Minneapolis, why not in Sioux Falls?
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) City Councilor Theresa Stehly has fresh ammunition in her battle to change the way members are picked for the Sioux Falls Parks Board.She reached out to the head of the...
View ArticleGoing up in smoke to help tech schools
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO AM) State House Speaker Mark Mickelson of Sioux Falls sent two versions to the State Attorney General of his proposed ballot measure to raise the tobacco tax in South Dakota, but...
View ArticleNew numbers-cruncher wanted on Audit Committee
Sioux Falls, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls residents are invited to apply for a vacant position on the City’s Audit Committee to serve a three-year term. This committee, which includes both City...
View ArticleWATCH--Thune on tax reform
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO-AM) -- U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, today outlined his priorities for tax reform.Thune has introduced several bills,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Daugaard announces website for new watery tax incentives
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO AM) South Dakota landowners can now now apply for tax incentives for buffer strips they create along their streams and other waters.Governor Dennis Daugaard has also announced a new...
View ArticleUPDATE w/ audio: SF Suspect search SUSPENDED
UPDATE: 3:15 P.M. -(Rick Williams - KELO-AM) - A joint agency Law Enforcement task force effort to locate one and possibly two men was suspended around 3:00 Wednesday afternoon. According to Sioux...
View ArticleAvera flexes new muscles in drug addiction battle
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) Avera Health of South Dakota is the first member of the new Patient Care Network created by the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation to better fight the nation's drug...
View ArticleBREAKING: Long time city leader Bob Jamison has died
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) Former Sioux Falls City Council Member, Bob Jamison, has died at the age of 86.Jamison is the father of State Representative and former City Councilor, Greg Jamison, who is...
View ArticleAUDIO: House Fire Wednesday
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO-AM) - Sioux Falls Fire Rescue was on-scene Wednesday afternoon battling a duplex fire on the city's northeast side. The call came into Metro Communications just before 2:00 P.M.,...
View ArticleSioux Falls man pleads guilty to kidnapping charges
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sixty-one year old Jon Henri Bryant has pled guilty to federal kidnapping charges on Tuesday, for an incident that took place last October.That's when Bryant forcefully took a...
View ArticleWATCH--Turkey vultures swarm Pettigrew Heights
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO-AM) -- Swarming, swirling flocks of turkey vultures circled the Pettigrew Heights neighborhood west of downtown Wednesday evening from 6 to 6:15 p.m.Over 30 of the large...
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