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WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. (KELO) -- People in Wessington Springs are still mourning the loss of two people killed in a house fire. The fire started on March 27th, and the bodies of Assistant Fire Chief Michial Brodkorb and his partner Tiffany Knipfer were found by authorities the next day. At Brodkorb's funeral Saturday, the community [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — April is Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month, which has a local organization doing what it can to make people conscious of the issue. CASA, which stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates for children, is a national nonprofit program that connects volunteers with abused and neglected children. Paul Phalen has [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- The name of a 22-year-old Highmore woman who died in a single vehicle crash near Wessington has been released. Kila Louann Good was traveling east in a 2005 Ford Excursion near US Highway 14 mile marker 314 when the vehicle left the roadway and rolled in the Northbound ditch. Good [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- The Rapid City Police Department says it's going to increase its police presence after a homicide took place downtown earlier this week. On Tuesday Rapid City Police say 22-year-old Diontae Eagleman stabbed a man around 7 pm just a block from city hall. In a Facebook post, RCPD said the [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- A national protest against Donald Trump and Elon Musk had a group protesting outside the courthouse in Downtown Sioux Falls. Protesters took to the streets of Sioux Falls Saturday in Hands Off! national day of action. The protesters protested Donald Trump's presidency and Elon Musk's involvement in politics. Hands Off! [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Local wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg died at the age of 79. Announced on his Facebook page, Jim Brandenburg died peacefully in his Medina, Minnesota home on Friday, April 4. He was surrounded by his family. Jim Brandenburg Jim was being treated for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma for the past 7 months [...]

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) -- Police have arrested a suspect in a deadly stabbing on the west side of Sioux Falls. The stabbing happened early Friday morning in the 35-hundred block of south Larch Avenue, near 41st Street and Marion Road. Officers found a 45-year-old man in the hallway of a Meadowland Apartment building. He [...]

ARLINGTON, S.D. (KELO) —Being sick is never an easy thing, but one little girl who spent a year in the hospital is doing what she can to lift other children's spirits. 7-year-old Belleamy Sikkink is the second oldest of five children in her family. "I like to call her my silly goose," Belleamy's dad, Trevor [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- A Chester family needs your help finding their dog and they are offering a hefty reward to find her. "It's been very hard, they've had her since she was a pup," family friend Jen Luitjens said. Ivy is an eight-year-old English Bulldog. She went missing on April 1, but sadly [...]