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2 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — The South Dakota Penitentiary has a new Warden. Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko announced the hiring of Joseph Roemmich, who has been the warden of a correctional center in New Mexico. Wasko says, “Joseph has extensive experience working in the corrections field.
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2 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
WASHINGTON, DC (KELO.com) — Republican Gubernatorial candidate Jon Hansen and his running mate, Representative Karla Lems led a group to Washington yesterday, working on carbon capture pipeline provisions included in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”One concern was to ensure provisions removed by the House to transfer control of approval and location of CO2 lines from the states to the federal government were not placed back in the bill.
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2 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
ROBERTS COUNTY, SD (KELO.com) — Authorities are on the look out for a man they say committed a violent robbery in Roberts County, and may be headed to the Sioux Falls area. The Roberts County Sheriff’s office says surveillance video shows Jordan Biddell, Junior pointing a black revolver-style BB gun at a store clerk and demanding money. When the clerk didn’t comply, the video shows Biddell striking the clerk in the face with the weapon and firing multiple rounds, injuring the clerk.
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3 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — The Minnehaha County Public Defender’s Office is sounding the alarm over public trust in the justice system. That follows a mistrial declared last Friday after an ICE arrest at the county courthouse. Officials say the arrest happened in front of a witness’s wife and baby while jurors were on break. The judge immediately declared a mistrial. The Public Defender’s Office says the witness had been legally subpoenaed, and the person on trial is a U.S. citizen.
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3 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — The South Dakota Corrections Department says staff has foiled an attempt to smuggle contraband into the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls. Corrections Secretary Kelly Wasko is praising staff members, who noticed unusual behavior during a routine supply delivery last week. Because of the ongoing investigation, specific details can’t be released.
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3 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — Federal budget cuts and a hiring freeze are being felt in national weather service offices in South Dakota. South Dakota News Watch reports the Weather forecast Office in Sioux Falls is among the hardest hit, with a job vacancy rate of nearly 42-percent. State Climatologist Laura Edwards says one area of concern is coordination between forecast offices and local emergency coordinators when there are risks of severe weather.
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3 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) — Don’t pay up – hang up! That’s the advice being given by South Dakota’s Consumer Protection Division workers who have already received 68-thousand scam reports this year. Scam alerts are popping up across the Upper Midwest, and officials are warning residents to watch their inbox and phone. One common scam starts with fake messages pretending to be from the Department of Motor Vehicles. They claim the targeted victims have broken the law and demand payment.
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4 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — The Sioux Falls City Council got a peek at early design work for the new Frank Olson pool and recreation center. Parks and Recreation Director Don Kearney says the project includes indoor recreation and fitness facilities, because public surveys show that’s what the public wants. City Councilor Curt Soehl says that could present a problem. The City Council is scheduled to give final approval of the design in August.
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4 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) — The Project Prison Reset Task Force has shot down the top two proposed locations for a new men’s penitentiary. A consultant’s top recommendation was a controversial site in Lincoln County, with a site near Huron coming in second. Those two sites were eliminated last night by the Task Force, along with several others. The group also scaled back the maximum price of any new facilities from 825-million down to 600-million dollars.
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4 days ago | 
kelo.com | Tom Rooney
A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito is seen on the skin of a human host in this 2014 picture from the Center for Disease Control. REUTERS/CDC/James Gathany SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO.com) — The annual war against summer public enemy number one is about to begin in Sioux Falls. City Public Health Program Manager Jaime Roggenbauer says workers will be out in force spraying for mosquitoes in the next few days.
