Month: April 2022
ABC World News
Russian warship sinks after Ukraine claims it struck ship with missiles
FILE – Burak Akay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Thursday that its Black Sea Fleet flagship vessel, Moskva, sunk after losing its stability when it was towed [Read More…]
Ag News
Wisconsin has three new avian influenza cases
Wisconsin has three new cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, bringing the total number of affected premises to seven. The state now has four non-commercial or backyard flocks and three commercial flocks affected by the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
John Travolta remembers his late son Jett on what would’ve been his 30th birthday
Rogers and Cowan via Getty Images John Travolta shared an Instagram tribute to his late son Jett to mark what would’ve been his 30th birthday on April 13. “My dearest Jetty, I miss you more [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kaley Cuoco has sworn off marriage for good
HBO/Karolina Wojtasik Following her split from her second husband, Karl Cook, Kaley Cuoco is done walking down the aisle. The Flight Attendant Emmy nominee and former The Big Bang Theory star tells Glamour plainly, “I [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ludacris to receive honorary Georgia State degree, Taraji to give Howard’s commencement speech and more
Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation — Georgia State University will present Chris “Ludacris” Bridges with an honorary Bachelor of Science in Music Management degree on May 4. Ludacris took classes at Georgia State in [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Judge slams Trump as ‘charlatan’ after jury finds Jan. 6 rioter guilty on all counts
Jason Marz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in D.C. on Thursday delivered a scathing rebuke of former President Donald Trump and expressed dismay over the state of American politics just moments after a jury [Read More…]
Ag News
CoBank says fertilizer prices to remain high
An economist with CoBank is not expecting any relief from tight fertilizer supplies and high prices. Kenneth Zuckerberg tells Brownfield, “More questions than answers at this point for the global fertilizer complex.” Zuckerberg just released [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing grain and livestock futures: April 14, 2022
May corn closed at $7.90 and 1/4, up 6 and 3/4 cents May soybeans closed at $16.82 and 1/4, up 6 and 1/4 cents May soybean meal closed at $461.40, up $3.20 May soybean oil [Read More…]
Ag News
Grain futures close shortened week mixed on position squaring
Soybeans finished the day mixed at on spread adjustments. Support to the complex mostly came to the nearby contracts with May futures leading the way. The complex came off a mostly higher close but sharp [Read More…]
Ag News
Minnesota farmer offsets input purchases with crop sales
Farmers are mindful of extreme volatility as they develop marketing plans. For corn and soybean grower Mark Enninga in southwest Minnesota, he’s offsetting input purchases with crop sales and locking in margins. “That’s the best [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle futures pressured on Thursday
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mostly lower and feeder cattle were lower on profit-taking, watching corn, and waiting for any clean-up trade to trickle in. June live cattle closed $0.45 lower at [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“Sorry it took 27 years”: ‘The Kids in the Hall’ return for season 6
Amazon Fans of the Canadian comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall had a long time to wait, but the boys are back for a long-anticipated season 6. “Sorry it took 27 years,” cast member [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ryan Reynolds honors soccer team partner Rob McElhenney’s birthday with a stadium urinal
ABC/Randy Holmes Ryan Reynolds did something special for his pal, and Wrexham Football Club co-chair, Rob McElhenney‘s birthday Thursday: He dedicated a stadium urinal to him. On a short video shot in one of the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Former host Brooke Burke calls ‘Dancing with the Stars” Tyra Banks a “diva”
Alex Goodlett/Getty Images for Operation Smile — ABC Brooke Burke, who hosted Dancing with the Stars from 2010-2013, seems to think the show has lost its way, and she appears to lay some of the [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Florida governor signs law banning nearly all abortions after 15 weeks
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (KISSIMMEE, Fla.) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed into law a bill that bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks, the same gestational limit currently being reviewed by the U.S. [Read More…]
ABC National News
NYC subway shooting suspect remanded after court appearance
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The man accused of opening fire on a rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn was ordered to be held without bail following his first court appearance Thursday. [Read More…]
Ag News
Michigan farmer hopes to plant sugarbeets before the end of the month
It will be at least another two weeks before Thumb-area farmer Dennis Gardner is able to do any fieldwork. “We’re a little bit heavy soils so it’s definitely wet here,” he shares. The Yale farmer [Read More…]
Weather
High Wind Warning issued April 14 at 10:05AM MDT until April 14 at 6:00PM MDT by NWS
…HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING… * WHAT…West winds 35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. * WHERE…Portions of central and east central South Dakota and [Read More…]
ABC National News
Boston COVID test positivity rate passes ‘threshold of concern’
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Boston public health officials are urging residents to take extra precautions as COVID-19 cases tick up ahead of the upcoming holiday weekend. In a blog post [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukraine claims to have hit Russia’s Black Sea flagship
Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian troops invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the [Read More…]