How many blood drives meet hospital's needs?
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Community Blood Bank holds 625 drives a year for the 34 hospitals they serve.Ken Versteeg says if drives don’t supply the blood types most needed, then the donor rooms...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking Task Force works Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - There was a multi-agency effort last week in Sioux Falls to locate girls and women that are forced into prostitution.Officer Sam Clemens says four women were arrested for...
View ArticleDestructive car hopping in Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) Two vandals went car hopping at the Suburu Dealership on South Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls Thursday night.Police say they jumped on the hoods and roofs, damaging at least...
View ArticleSioux Falls Fighter Wing to receive award
WASHINGTON, DC (KELO AM) — U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today congratulated the 114th Fighter Wing of the South Dakota Air National Guard for receiving the 2014 Air Force Outstanding Unit award...
View ArticleOne Injured in Friday Apartment Fire
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) - Friday evening at approximately 1030PM Sioux Falls Fire Rescue responded to an apartment fire at 700 W. 6th St. Multiple residents called 911 reporting fire alarms sounding...
View ArticleEarly morning traffic mishap results in one injury
SIOUX FALLS (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls Police were dispatched to Minnesota Ave. and 11 St. for a three vehicle collision. Eighteen-year-old Gage Peck had been traveling northbound on Minnesota Avenue...
View ArticleSioux Falls Police respond to early morning burglaries
SIOUX FALLS (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls Police received an early morning report of larceny activity near the 3800blk of S Morrow. The first reporting party advised a tall thin male in a black hooded...
View ArticleNew American Heart Association CPR guidelines
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - An update to the American Heart Association’s C-P-R guidelines stresses quick action and more teamwork as keys to saving more lives.Chrissy Meyer says over 300,000 people...
View ArticleLHS marching band brings home third from St. Louis
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Lincoln High School marching band finished third out of twenty-four bands in their class competing last weekend in St. Louis.Director Dan Carlson says the Bands of...
View ArticlePreliminary cause of apartment fire is released
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The apartment fire on West Sixth Street last Friday night appears to have started in a faulty wall outlet.Dean Lanier with Fire Rescue says a female resident suffered...
View ArticlePREMIER Center to welcome Jeff Dunham
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) — Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings his zany cast of characters, including Walter the grumpy retiree, red-neck Bubba J, and the bumbling dead terrorist Achmed, to the Denny...
View ArticleCouncil votes down phone ban
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO AM) – The Sioux Falls city council will not take up the issue of drivers who talk on their phone after all.With 5 no votes to 3 yes votes; councilors killed an ordinance that...
View ArticleSF Police investigating yesterday's late morning stabbing
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The incident started with a woman’s scream.When police arrived at the residence on East 11th Street yesterday morning they found a 33-year-old man suffering multiple stab...
View ArticleNew FDA rules will change livestock feeding
HURON (KELO AM) - “Having a good veterinarian for your livestock has always been important, but these new FDA regulations make it even more so,” said Wanda Blair, who raises Angus cattle and bulls with...
View ArticleMan assaulted with scissors and toilet tank lid
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - A Sioux Falls man suffered stab wounds to his neck, shoulder and chest in an attack at an East 11th Street apartment yesterday morning.Officer Sam Clemens says 18-year-old...
View ArticleMinnehaha County Commission reverses planning decision
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The Minnehaha County Commission reversed Planning’s decision to deny a conditional use permit for an event hall near Wild Water West.Neighbor and opponent Brian Brodie is...
View ArticleFair Manager reveals attendance and profit figures
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Attendance to the Sioux Empire Fair this year was over 321,000 or a fourteen percent increase over last year.Fair Manager Scott Wick says total expenses were over...
View ArticlePhone ban group blasting City Council
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) The Safer Streets for Sioux Falls group is using strong language to blast City Council for voting down the proposed ban on using cell phones while driving.The group's Rich...
View ArticleRoosevelt teacher wins national award
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO AM) – Gina Benz, an English teacher at Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls, didn’t walk the red carpet today, but she did receive a $25,000 award that Teacher magazine calls the...
View ArticleDriver and passenger injured in dramatic rollover accident
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Police say two people were injured in a single car rollover in northwest Sioux Falls around one this morning.The car left Marion Road, drove through a barbed wire fence,...
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