Month: May 2022
Ag News
Honoring the greatest sacrifice
Commentary. It happens every year. Summer’s official start is a couple of weeks away, but Memorial Day weekend is upon us and for many of those not making hay or trying to get a crop [Read More…]
Ag News
U.S. ports clearing backlogs, China port issues remain
An ag economist says China’s import delays are far from over but product movement out of U.S. ports is improving. The University of Missouri’s Ben Brown said rising COVID cases and lockdowns in China are [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kevin Spacey charged with four counts of sexual assault in the UK
Nicole Harnishfeger-Pool/Getty Images Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men in the United Kingdom, the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service confirmed Thursday. Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jimmy Kimmel tearfully addresses Texas school shooting: “This is a time to be loud”
ABC/Jeff Lipsky Jimmy Kimmel addressed the Texas school shooting in an emotional monologue on his late night-show Wednesday. Speaking to the camera without the studio audience present, Kimmel immediately choked up as he grieved for [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Donald Trump must testify under oath in civil investigation, judges rule
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children must sit for a deposition as part of the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into how the family [Read More…]
ABC Business News
How to save money on gas as prices continue to climb
Tom Merton/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The price for a gallon of gas continues to surge. As of Thursday morning, AAA said it costs an average of $4.60 for a gallon of gas, meaning filling [Read More…]
Ag News
Farmer wraps up two months of corn planting
A southeastern Missouri farmer says corn planting was very drawn out this year. “I’ve got some corn that’s knee high and some that’s just coming up,” said bootheel farmer Clint Stevens. Stevens tells Brownfield he [Read More…]
Ag News
Kansas cattleman says law providing sales tax exemptions on fencing supplies is a mixed bag
A cattle producer says he’s still replacing fences destroyed during a wildfire in December. Ethan Dickerson from North Central Kansas tells Brownfield repairs started in January, but supply chain disruptions and weather have slowed progress. [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA reveals new actions on meat and poultry competition
The USDA has announced multi-million-dollar investments to help strengthen food supply chains. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the administration is making available $200 million to expand competition in meat processing. He also announced a $25 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas school shooting live updates: Bodies of nine victims released to funeral homes
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — A small town in rural Texas is reeling after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school on Tuesday, killing 19 children. Two teachers were also [Read More…]
ABC World News
Across the border from Uvalde, anger, sorrow, calls to action in Mexico after another US mass shooting
KeithBinns/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — In the hours and days after the horrifying school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, foreign governments around the world expressed their condolences to the American people. But in Mexico, officials added [Read More…]
Latest News
Recreational pot validated for ballot in South Dakota
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota voters are set to vote again on whether they want recreational marijuana legalized for adults after the secretary of state on Wednesday validated the initiated measure for the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In brief: ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’ trailer, ‘This Is Us’ ratings and more
Bleecker Street on Wednesday dropped the trailer for its Regency-era rom-com, Mr. Malcolm’s List, starring The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Zawe Ashton and Gangs of London‘s Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù. Per Bleecker Street, the film follows Ashton’s Julia Thistlewaite, who [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jennifer Lopez reportedly wants to wed Ben Affleck “sooner rather than later”
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Wedding bells for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez will come “sooner rather than later” — that is, if J-Lo has her way. “Jennifer will tell you she’s not in a rush [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Amazon opens its first clothing store in Los Angeles
boschettophotography/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Amazon has expanded in many ways throughout the years, and now the e-commerce giant has launched a brick-and-mortar clothing store. The Amazon Style fashion retail space has opened at The [Read More…]
ABC Health News
How to help victims’ families, first-responders and Uvalde community after school shooting
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Americans have turned their attention to Uvalde, Texas, after the devastating shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two adults dead on Tuesday. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
How Texas loosened gun restrictions despite recent mass shootings
Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gun control advocates are again calling on Texas lawmakers to restrict access to firearms after at least 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting [Read More…]
Ag News
An interesting situation shaping up for the cattle industry
Cattle prices have been on the rise, but with skyrocketing input prices profitability is not on the same trajectory. In this Managing for Profit, University of Missouri livestock economist Scott Brown talks about the factors [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mother of Texas gunman says son was ‘not a monster,’ could be ‘aggressive’
Obtained by ABC News (UVALDE, Texas) — The mother of the 18-year-old gunman accused of killing 21 at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, this week told ABC News in an interview that her son [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas school shooting seventh deadliest mass shooting in recent US history
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — An elementary school in Texas was the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent United States history this week. Nineteen children and two [Read More…]
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