Month: October 2019

iStock(PHOENIX) — A local official in Arizona has been arrested and charged in connection with an adoption ring. Paul Petersen and an associate are facing over 30 charges in connection to allegedly helping bring pregnant [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Amin Dzhabrailov remembers the day vividly. He was working in his hair salon in Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya, Russia, in 2017 when he says three large men came in, grabbed [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Fish hunters in Norway are trying to round up as many of the hundreds of thousands of salmon that have escaped breeding facilities this year as they can, and an organization is [Read More…]

iStock(DALLAS) — At 16 years old, Emma Earhart is already a junior college graduate and a biology major at the University of North Texas. She also has a familiar classmate: her mom, Kathy Earhart. In [Read More…]

iStock(BRIDGETON, N.J.) — The reward in the search for 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez, who has been missing for more than three weeks after vanishing from a New Jersey park, increased to $52,000 on Wednesday. Authorities [Read More…]

Dec. corn closed at $3.94 and 1/4, down 1 and 1/2 centsNov. soybeans closed at $9.23 and 3/4, up 3 and 1/4 centsOct. soybean meal closed at $305.40, up $3.10Oct. soybean oil closed at 29.63, [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science have discovered 20 additional moons orbiting Saturn — and they are asking the public to help name them. “We want to get the world involved,” [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK ) — New York Times investigative reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey sent shockwaves through media and popular culture when they published an explosive article exposing years of alleged sexual abuse covered up [Read More…]

JHVEPhoto/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) — A Pennsylvania jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its drugmakers Janssen Pharmaceuticals to pay $8 billion in damages in a lawsuit over the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal that has been linked to the growth [Read More…]

milehightraveler/iStock(SAN FRANCISCO) — As California faces a critical fire danger, utility companies are preemptively shutting off power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Golden State. The outages come as a way to reduce [Read More…]

Natalia Marshall/iStock(WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.) — Anti-Semitic materials were found at a Holocaust memorial in White Plains, N.Y., on Tuesday on the eve of Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the year, local officials said. New [Read More…]

ABC(NEW YORK) — Previously only available online, Kim Kardashian West is bringing her KKW Beauty line to Ulta stores. “I’m so excited to launch @kkwbeauty in @ultabeauty on October 20!! I can’t wait to make [Read More…]

milehightraveler/iStock(SAN FRANCISCO) — As California faces a critical fire danger, utility companies are preemptively shutting off power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Golden State. The outages come as a way to reduce [Read More…]

L. Carter/National Park Service(KING SALMON, Alaska) –All hail this year’s “Queen of Corpulence.” A national park in Alaska declared 435 Holly the winner of its 2019 Fat Bear Week competition on Tuesday. “She is fat. [Read More…]