Month: April 2019
Body found in New York City storage facility; police investigating connection to missing teacher
(NYPD) Jeanine Cammarata, 37, a substitute teacher and mother of three, has been missing on Staten Island since Saturday, March 30, 2019. (NEW YORK) — A body “charred and unidentifiable” was discovered Thursday morning at [Read More…]
Search expands for American tourist kidnapped in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park
benedek/iStock(KAMPALA, Uganda) — Ugandan authorities on Thursday expanded their desperate search for American tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott and her safari guide who were allegedly abducted at the country’s most popular national park by gunmen demanding [Read More…]
Prince Harry and Meghan move from Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan have moved from their home at Kensington Palace to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor. The couple had been racing to finish renovations at the five-bedroom house on the [Read More…]
Princes Charles, William and Harry have a guys’ night out at ‘Our Planet’ premiere
Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage via Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Charles and his sons, Princes William and Harry, enjoyed a guys’ night out for the premiere of “Our Planet,” a new eight-part documentary series on Netflix. The [Read More…]
DFA invests in ag tech startups
Dairy Farmers of America has selected seven ag tech startups to participate in their accelerator program. Winners will work with DFA, CoBank and Sprint Accelerator through mentorships and business development planning bring innovation to the [Read More…]
AFBF anxious about potential border closing
American Farm Bureau is urging the Trump Administration not to adversely affect agriculture by following through on the threat to close the Mexican border. President Zippy Duvall says members are nervous about what ‘closing the [Read More…]
Pork industry running practice ASF drills
Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says the agency is daily tracking African Swine Fever and encouraging vigilance in the U.S. “From an alarm standpoint, we’re working with our states in developing a network of early detection [Read More…]
ICE arrests more than 280 people in massive workplace raid
iStock(DALLAS) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 280 workers at a Texas technology company in what the agency described as the largest workplace raid in a decade. Agents with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations [Read More…]
Flood Warning issued April 04 at 10:51AM MDT until further notice by NWS
…The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in South Dakota… James River At Huron James River Near Forestburg James River At Mitchell James River Near Scotland
Barometer: Farmers less optimistic about financial future
AFinancial stress is taking its toll on farmers as seen in the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. Jim Mintert, director of Purdue’s Center for Commercial Ag, says farmers are less optimistic about their [Read More…]
Keeping your crop protected
Uncertainties in farming like weather, yield, and grain prices has farmers looking for ways to reduce risk while improving the bottom line. In this Managing for Profit, Todd Landsman talks about ways growers can mitigate [Read More…]
Inside the nightmarish world of Alabama prisons and the DOJ’s attempt to fix them
iStock(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — The Department of Justice blasted Alabama’s men’s prisons on Wednesday, saying in a report that the system fails to protect inmates from violence and sexual assault, and detailing a litany of nightmarish [Read More…]
Body found in New York City storage facility; police investigating connection to missing teacher
(NYPD) Jeanine Cammarata, 37, a substitute teacher and mother of three, has been missing on Staten Island since Saturday, March 30, 2019. (NEW YORK) — A body discovered Thursday morning at a New York City [Read More…]
Search expands for American tourist kidnapped in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park
benedek/iStock(KAMPALA, Uganda) — Ugandan authorities on Thursday continued a desperate search for American tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott and her safari guide who were allegedly abducted at the country’s most popular national park by gunmen demanding [Read More…]
19-year-old arrested in killing of Philadelphia police chief inspector’s son: Officials
(Philadelphia Police Department) Tyquan Atkinson is seen here in an undated mug shot. (PHILADELPHIA) — A teenager was arrested Wednesday in the killing of the 20-year-old son of the Philadelphia police’s chief internal affairs inspector, [Read More…]
Short story vending machines rolled out in London’s Canary Wharf
Alex Segre / Contributor/Getty Images(LONDON) — Commuters in one of London’s most important financial centers will now be treated to a dose of literature on their way to work, as three Short Story Dispensers were [Read More…]
What you need to know about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Over a half-century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support and bring attention to a strike by more than 1,300 city sanitation workers, but the journey [Read More…]
“Cultivate”removes food wastes, helps the hungry
A non-profit organization in Indiana might have an answer to food waste and hunger. Cultivate collects unused food and re-purposes it into take-home meals. They only use foods that have been made but never served. [Read More…]
More than 1,000 bodies discovered in Belarus mass grave a dark reminder of Holocaust
SERGEI GAPON/AFP/Getty Images(BREST, Belarus) — The city of Brest, on the Belarusian side of its border with Poland, has kept a terrible secret in its city’s historic district for almost 80 years: a mass grave [Read More…]
Damaging winds, large hail threaten Deep South
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A storm system that moved in from the west brought baseball-size hail to parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday. The storm system will move east into the Mississippi River Valley [Read More…]