Month: October 2018
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EPA extends dicamba registration, adds additional restrictions
The federal EPA has extended the registration of dicamba for two years for “over-the-top” weed control in dicamba-resistant soybeans and cotton. The agency also placed some additional restrictions on use of the product. Here is the [Read More…]
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Trump administration begins new push to end war in Yemen
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Nearly four years after the war in Yemen began, eventually killing at least 16,200 civilians and creating a humanitarian crisis with a deadly cholera epidemic and 14 million people facing a possible famine, [Read More…]
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Woman survives for 6 days after car flies off the road
Arizona Department Of Public Safety(WICKENBURG, Az.) — A woman who crashed her car in Arizona was able to survive for six days before she was found, local authorities said. The 53-year-old woman was driving along [Read More…]
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Driver who hit and killed 3 siblings saw flashing lights, but didn’t realize it was a school bus: police
iStock/Thinkstock(ROCHESTER, Ind.) — The woman allegedly at the wheel of a pickup truck that struck and killed three young Indiana siblings told investigators she saw flashing emergency lights on the rural highway but didn’t realize [Read More…]
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Detectives begin ‘unraveling’ mysterious deaths of Saudi sisters found bound with tape in New York City’s Hudson River
NYPD(NEW YORK) — New York City detectives have conducted various interviews in Virginia where two sisters from Saudi Arabia were living before their bodies, bound together with duct tape, were found floating along the Hudson [Read More…]
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Milk futures higher, cash dairy mostly lower
Class III milk futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange closed higher Wednesday as traders took back over sold positions. October closed unchanged at $15.54. November two cents higher at $14.79. December 12 cents higher at [Read More…]
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Wholesale values support cattle futures
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures closed mostly higher on continued strength from wholesale values. Strong consumer confidence continues to help domestic beef demand. Feeder cattle futures closed sharply higher, supported by the [Read More…]
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Groups ask that Missouri labeling law be blocked
A coalition of groups wants a court to immediately stop enforcement of a Missouri law that prohibits misrepresenting products as meat unless the product comes from animals. The Animal Legal Defense Fund, The Good Food [Read More…]
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A shift in acres is likely in 2019
Another year of large corn and soybean crops combined with trade uncertainties is adding more pressure to commodity prices. Sam Miller with BMO Harris says soybean farmers have been hit especially hard. “Soybean supplies are [Read More…]
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Economist doubts 5G is answer to rural broadband challenge
An economist at CoBank is skeptical about 5G wireless technology solving rural broadband challenges. Jeff Johnston with CoBank says 5G, seen as a much faster successor to 3G and 4G broadband, faces high costs, as [Read More…]
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Amid desperate search for crashed Lion Air jet’s black box, some answers may be back in the US
Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Representatives from Boeing, the manufacturer of the ill-fated Lion Air 737 that crashed Tuesday in the Java Sea and presumably killed all 189 people on board, have arrived in Indonesia [Read More…]
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Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc planned ‘domestic terrorist attack’ since July, prosecutors say
Getty Images/Broward County Sheriff’s Office(NEW YORK) — The man accused of mailing more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent Democrats, other high-profile liberal figures and CNN had been plotting the “domestic terrorist attack” for [Read More…]
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Child dies after getting hit by truck while trying to board school bus
WTVA(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — A child has died after he was hit by a pickup truck as he was about to board a school bus on a Mississippi highway. Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green identified the [Read More…]
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Inside the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect’s apparently isolated life
Jeff Swenson/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH)– The man accused of massacring 11 Jews in an anti-Semitic rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue this weekend is still relatively unknown, but appears to be the textbook fit of what law enforcement [Read More…]
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — The man accused of killing 11 Jews in an anti-Semitic attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue was charged in a 44-count indictment that includes federal hate crimes. Suspect Robert Bowers, 46, “made [Read More…]
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Missouri farmer’s tale of two crops
A Northeast Missouri farmer tells Brownfield his crop story this year is like “The Tale of Two Cities” – the best of times and the worst of times. Jay Schutte, who farms near the town of [Read More…]
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U.S. ethanol production up, stocks down
U.S. ethanol stocks hit a more than one-month low last week as blending demand increases. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says domestic supplies dropped 1.151 million barrels to 22.746 million, the third week in a [Read More…]
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Wisconsin girl still missing after more than 2 thousand tips
ABC News(BARRON, Wis.) — It’s been over two weeks since 13-year-old Jayme Closs was abducted and her parents were shot dead at their rural Wisconsin home, and though the tips keep coming in, the young [Read More…]
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Hawaii’s Supreme Court approves controversial Thirty-Meter Telescope despite protests from natives
iStock/Thinkstock(HONOLULU) — Hawaii’s Supreme Court made a decision on a long-debated issue by voting in favor of continuing the construction of a large telescope on the Mauna Kea volcano, a mountain that’s considered sacred to [Read More…]
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Police make arrest in murder of 70-year-old woman whose throat was slashed
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of a 70-year-old woman living in Manhattan’s upper west side. Anya Johnston, 24, was charged with murder and burglary in the [Read More…]