Month: April 2019
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University at Buffalo student critically injured in ‘potential’ hazing incident; school suspends all Greek life
ABC News(BUFFALO, N.Y.) — The University at Buffalo has suspended all fraternities and sororities and is investigating a “potential” hazing incident that left a student in critical condition. The Buffalo Police Department said that a [Read More…]
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Feds signal adult children in ‘Varsity Blues’ cheating scandal may face criminal charges
iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Federal prosecutors in Boston have signaled that some of the adult children of parents charged in an ongoing college cheating scandal could also face criminal charges. Prosecutors have sent target letters to adult [Read More…]
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Maryland 8th-grade students foil potential school shooting plot, police say
Google Maps(SNOW HILL, Maryland) — Officials are crediting a group of eighth-grade students for foiling a school shooting plot at a Maryland middle school. Worcester County investigators arrested two minors after the students reported a [Read More…]
Ag News
Challenging the accuracy of broadband maps
The digital divide and flawed broadband mapping tools were the subject of a Senate hearing this week. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is examining why some of the mapping by the Federal [Read More…]
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Missouri ranks second in number of farms
Missouri has the second highest number of farms in the U.S. The 2017 Ag Census says the state has more than 95,000 farms on nearly 28 million acres. Missouri’s USDA statistician Bob Garino tells Brownfield [Read More…]
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Tester: We’re losing people right and left
U.S. Senator Jon Tester says financial difficulty could put a lot of farmers out of business. The Montana Democrat addressed U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the USDA budget. [Read More…]
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Hog futures supported by demand expectations
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures ended the day higher finding support in the poor weather and feedlot performance. The anticipation of higher cash business was also supportive to the day’s higher prices. April [Read More…]
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USDA condemns WaPo article
The USDA is pushing back at the Washington Post for an article falsely claiming the proposed New Swine Slaughter Inspection System would turn pork inspection over to plant employees. FSIS Administrator Carmen Rottenberg tells Brownfield, [Read More…]
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American doctor shot 3 times while on mission trip in Haiti is recovering
Courtesy Drew Pasler(MIAMI) — An American doctor is recovering after he was shot three times during a mission trip to help schoolchildren in Haiti last week. Dr. Doug Burbella, 58, and a group of missionaries [Read More…]
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Investigation launched into handling of Jussie Smollett case
Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — Kim Foxx, the embattled Chicago state’s attorney whose office has come under fire for its handling of the Jussie Smollett case, has asked the local inspector general to look conduct an [Read More…]
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5-year-old may have been thrown off 3rd floor of Mall of America: Police
vmargineanu/iStock(BLOOMINGTON, Minn.) — A 5-year-old suffered “significant injuries” after falling from the third floor of the famed Mall of America in Minnesota and may have been thrown or pushed, according to police, who cited witnesses. [Read More…]
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Man arrested after setting clothes on fire near White House
iStock/OlegAlbinsky(WASHINGTON) — A man was arrested after trying to set his clothes on fire near the White House on Friday. According to Secret Service, a male individual in a motorized wheelchair scooter on Pennsylvania Avenue [Read More…]
Ag News
ASA past president is Missouri Soybean Hall of Fame inductee
Gary Riedel was inducted Wednesday into the Missouri Soybean Hall of Fame. The Centralia soybean grower served as president of the Missouri Soybean Association in the early 80s and the American Soybean Association in the [Read More…]
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Milk futures mixed, cash dairy higher
Milk futures on the Chicago Mercantile closed in mixed territory Friday as many traders stayed on the sidelines in both future and cash trade. April Class III milk up a penny at $15.92. May unchanged [Read More…]
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Winter wheat up on late bounce
Soybeans were steady to fractionally lower in low trade volume. The trade continues to wait and see what happens next in talks with China. Negotiations have reportedly progressed well, but there’s no public timeline for [Read More…]
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Deer baiting ban could be lifted in Michigan
A bill has been introduced in the Michigan Senate that would lift a ban on deer baiting which the Michigan Cattlemen’s Association says increases the risk of bovine tuberculosis outbreaks. Last year the Michigan Natural [Read More…]
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Bill to address veterinarian shortage
Legislation has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate to address veterinarian shortages in rural areas. Ranking Member of the Senate Ag Committee Debbie Stabenow of Michigan says she co-sponsored the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program [Read More…]
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Johnny Bobbitt, homeless veteran involved in GoFundMe scheme, gets 5 years probation
imaginima/iStock(NEW YORK) — Johnny Bobbitt, who concocted a feel-good story with a woman and her boyfriend to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of a GoFundMe campaign, has been sentenced to five years [Read More…]
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Man arrested after setting clothes on fire near White House
iStock/OlegAlbinsky(WASHINGTON) — A man was arrested after trying to set himself on fire near the White House on Friday. An individual in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, lit his jacket on [Read More…]
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How Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning became intertwined
Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — It’s been a little more than nine years since Chelsea Manning first contacted Wikileaks and provided Julian Assange’s organization with hundreds of thousands of classified documents and a video of an [Read More…]