Month: June 2019
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Fireworks explosion injures 12 firefighters, two critically, in New Mexico
Courtesy Fabian Garcia(ROSWELL, N.M.) — A large explosion at a fireworks storage facility in New Mexico injured 12 firefighters on Wednesday as they prepared for an upcoming Fourth of July celebration. Members of the Roswell, [Read More…]
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Police: FL day care worker arrested after video shows her abusing toddlers
Rawpixel/iStock(ORLANDO, Fla.) — A Florida day care worker has been arrested after surveillance video showed her tossing children around, according to police. Katherine Weitz, 65, was arrested on felony child abuse charges after a manager [Read More…]
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Ohio doctor charged with 25 counts of murdering patients with fatal doses of pain medication
Kuzma/iStock(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — An Ohio doctor has been charged with 25 counts of murder for allegedly ordering fatal doses of pain medication for patients while working as a critical-care physician. William Husel, 43, a former [Read More…]
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ARA says prevent plant acres will leave unsold seed, products in retailers’ hands
Agricultural Retailers Association CEO Daren Coppock says the ARA supports disaster relief legislation but says the ARA doesn’t want undue incentives for growers to claim prevent plant acres. “All of us in the system, whether [Read More…]
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Farm and Ranch to School Act gives priority to locally produced meat
Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota has introduced a measure to make local meat procurement a priority for school lunch programs. Johnson tells Brownfield the current Farm to School Program has successfully gotten local fruits [Read More…]
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South Dakota’s Dusty Johnson wants grazing date pushed up
Congressman Dusty Johnson wants farmers to be allowed to graze cover crops on prevent plant acres before November first, the date now allowed under crop insurance rules. “So much of the nutritional quality has waned, [Read More…]
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McKinney knows ag not happy about Mexico tariffs
USDA Under Secretary for Trade – from his trade mission in Colombia – says they know agriculture is not happy with Trump’s Mexico tariff threat, “Clearly, only a week or two prior the steel and [Read More…]
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USDA will NOT include prevent plant acres in MFP2
Agri-Pulse reports USDA will NOT include unplanted acres in the next round of trade assistance payments. Ag Secretary Perdue said earlier this week his staff was hoping to make a decision on prevented planting by [Read More…]
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Producer sentiment drops to lowest score in two years
Producer sentiment continues to decline according the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. The barometer fell 14 points to 101 in May, the lowest reading since October 2016. But Purdue University’s Jim Mintert says [Read More…]
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ASF found in a commercial hog herd in Poland
The third domestic case of African Swine Fever has been detected in Poland. The virus was found on a commercial pig farm and more than 8,000 animals had to be euthanized to prevent the spread [Read More…]
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Trump joins world leaders to commemorate 75th anniversary of D-Day
Samir Hussein/WireImage(LONDON) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, on the third day of their U.K. trip, joined Queen Elizabeth II and more than 300 D-Day veterans in Portsmouth on Wednesday for a [Read More…]
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‘Stuck in a nightmare,’ says relative of US couple who mysteriously died in Fiji
Handout via WFAA-TV(NEW YORK) — A mystery illness that killed a Texas couple on a dream vacation to Fiji continued to baffle doctors Wednesday as authorities in the South Pacific island nation said they have [Read More…]
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Former exec sues Goldman Sachs after allegedly being fired for being ‘too gay’
Maria_Ermolova/iStock(NEW YORK) — A former Goldman Sachs executive sued the bank for discrimination on Wednesday, saying he was fired after reporting repeated instances of homophobia and discrimination. William Jarrad Littleton, a former vice president and [Read More…]
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Catholic Church lobbyists spent $10.6M to fight legal efforts to support victims of sex abuse: Report
mikyso/iStock(NEW YORK) — Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have long sought justice in the courts but their opposition has benefited from the deep pockets of the Catholic Church itself, according to a new [Read More…]
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NCBA stays out of Mexico tariff/immigration fray; remains focused on USMCA passage
NCBA president Jennifer Houston National Cattlemen’s Beef Association president Jennifer Houston says they are choosing to stay out of the fray over President Trump’s threat to impose a tariff on Mexico over the immigration issue. [Read More…]
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Robert Downey Jr. launches climate change coalition to clean up the world with tech
Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images for Disney(LAS VEGAS) — Talk about life imitating art. If you’re a Marvel and Iron Man fan, you know that Robert Downey Jr.’s character Tony Stark is a genius who’s hell-bent on [Read More…]
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Alleged Mexican drug trafficker tied to Sinaloa cartel indicted on fentanyl charges
RapidEye/iStock(NEW YORK) — An alleged Mexican drug trafficker tied to the Sinaloa cartel is among 22 people indicted Wednesday on charges they distributed heroin and fentanyl along a supply route from Mexico to New York. [Read More…]
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Amazon promises ‘Prime Air’ drone delivery ‘within months’
MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) — Amazon Inc. said it’s taking deliveries to the next level — quite literally — within a few months by using drones. The company made the announcement Wednesday at its re:MARS [Read More…]
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Lean times for Iranians as sanctions push the economy to the brink
Somayeh Malekian/ABC News(TEHRAN, Iran) — On a recent evening during Ramadan, a 22-year-old carpet weaver named Mahshid left her workshop in Isfahan, Iran, and stepped into a shop to buy ingredients for a meal to [Read More…]
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Ex-deputy charged with child neglect in Parkland high school shooting appears in court
iStock(PARKLAND, Fla.) — Handcuffed and wearing tan jailhouse clothes, a fired Florida deputy sheriff appeared in court Wednesday morning to face a slew of charges stemming from his alleged inaction in the 2018 mass shooting [Read More…]