Smarter traffic signals
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The city is equipping more streets with adaptive signals that detect traffic counts and adjust signals in real time.Dustin Brinkman with Rhythm Engineering says the...
View ArticleEthan's song
UNDATED (KELO-AM) In 2014, Ethan McMahon posted one of his songs on Facebook - A haunting lament for a love thousands of miles away.It's a fitting reminder of the talented young man killed in the...
View ArticleCouncil passes scaled back smoking ban
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - Nearly an hour and 20 minutes of public input, several lengthy essays from Councilors, and one amendment were all considered as the Sioux Falls City Council took up the...
View ArticlePolice create Safe Exchange Zone
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Occasionally online sales are risky affairs when sellers or buyers are robbed during the exchange of money and goods.Officer Sam Clemens says police created a safe...
View ArticleThune eyes the 115th Congress
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The 114th Congress is drawing to a close and Senator John Thune is looking forward to the 115th which he says will feature Republicans quickly taking action on major...
View ArticleVIDEO: Excerpt from Christmas book, The Greatest Gift
Tom Roberts has written a fifth book in his Christmas children's collection for the Children's Home Society.The talented author and actor read an excerpt from his latest book, The Greatest Gift: The...
View ArticleHuether: Shop downtown!
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether acknowledged that some downtown businesses are struggling in the shadow of the Copper Lounge collapse.Huether says entrepreneurs are telling...
View ArticleSioux Falls crime addresses still sealed
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Even though State Attorney General Marty Jackley says law enforcement isn't violating Marsy's Law by releasing crime addresses don't expect a return to business as...
View ArticleEthan's hammer and a father's terrible story
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO-AM) As difficult as it is, the father of Ethan McMahon, killed in the building collapse in downtown Sioux Falls, is now talking publically about the tragedy."When they brought him...
View ArticleSuspicious death in Dell Rapids
DELL RAPIDS, SD (KELO-AM) Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead confirms that his officers are investigating the suspicious death of a child at a house in Dell Rapids.Milstead says the first call,...
View ArticleRounds pursuit of agency's overreach
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Senator Mike Rounds says with an ally in the White House next year he plans to continue curbing what he claims is the overreach of federal agencies, particularly the...
View ArticleJoe Foss not on F-35 list
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Air Force Wednesday released its list of the next candidate bases for stationing F-35A jets and Joss Foss Field did not make the cut.Deputy Assistant Secretary of the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Sheriff Milstead on costs of Marsy's Law
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO-AM) -- Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead calls the so-called "Marsy's Law" well intentioned but poorly written.He says the victims' rights constitutional amendment is still...
View ArticleAn arrest in death of 3 year old
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead says deputies made an arrest last night in the death of a three-year-old child in Dell Rapids.Milstead says detectives investigated...
View ArticleMurder charges in Dell Rapids
SUIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Authorities determined an 18-month-old boy died from trauma yesterday in Dell Rapids and his stepfather is charged with murder.Captain Jason Gearman with the Minnehaha...
View Article13-year-old car thieves
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The recipe for having your car stolen? Leave it running and unlocked.Officer Sam Clemens says a 13-year-old Sioux Falls girl is accused of stealing three cars last night,...
View ArticleUPDATE: details of Dell Rapids child death
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO-AM) The 18-month-old boy found dead at a home in Dell Rapids on Thursday had been hit on the head six times until his skull fractured.Minnehaha County State's Attorney Aaaron...
View ArticleDemolishing what's left of collapsed building
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO-AM) Demolition crews on Thursday began taking down what was left standing after the building collapse in downtown Sioux Falls.The crews are demolishing the second story portions...
View Article...The day the music died in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO AM) The Brennan Rock & Roll Academy in Sioux Falls will close December 23, an apparent victim of the 36 percent payday loan rate cap approved by South Dakota voters in the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Rosenthal on fixing the ballot measure process
Former Republican Chair Joel Rosenthal joined The Greg Belfrage Show this morning to talk about the aftermath of the passage of Marsy's Law and IM22 and how to "fix" the ballot measure process.He said...
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