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From building beds to cutting tons of firewood to help people keep warm during the winter months, non-profit Re-Member is making a difference one day at a time.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- The judge in the trial against 18-year-old Damian Laurelez will stay on the case. That ruling came down Wednesday afternoon. Defense attorneys for Laurelez had filed a motion to have Judge Mark Barnett remove himself from the case based on comments he made in public that they say were biased [...]

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PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- Prosecutors revealed at trial Wednesday that Lonna Carroll during a July 17, 2024, interview admitted to South Dakota criminal investigators she stole from the state Division of Child Protection Services and that Carroll signed a document summarizing thefts totaling $1,777,665.73 during a 13-year period. The interview took place at Carroll's house [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- We are following the above-average severe weather we've seen this year. Meteorologist Scot Mundt tells us with what he's found. While we've been dealing with cold weather and a wintry mix in KELOLAND, it's been a different storm to our south with numerous reports of strong to severe weather. This [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Sioux Falls will cheer on one of its own in the Final Four. Former Washington High standout Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda is now a junior guard for at the University of Texas at Austin. The Longhorns will meet South Carolina Friday night. From high school hoops to March Madness, Washington High School [...]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Project Prison Reset, the group of lawmakers and other leaders taking a new look at how and where to build a new men's prison in South Dakota, has met for the first time. Wednesday, the task force visited a rural section of Lincoln County between Canton and Harrisburg where the state [...]

Rapid City Police say 22-year-old Diontae Eagleman stabbed a man last night, just a block from city hall. 

TEA, S.D. (KELO) - This week is the first time a Sioux Falls police officer has been shot since 1984. It was Jerry James' second year working for the Sioux Falls Police Department when he was shot outside of the Nite City after the bar closed. He says a woman told him a man in [...]