Month: August 2022
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Flash’ star Ezra Miller charged with felony burglary in Vermont
Miller from a April 2022 arrest. — Credit: Hawaii County Police Department Ezra Miller is in trouble again. Days after Warner Bros. Discovery’s CEO defended the upcoming standalone movie The Flash — despite Miller’s increasingly [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kaley Cuoco to take a darkly comedic turn in Peacock’s ‘Based on a True Story’
ABC/Randy Holmes Kaley Cuoco is getting into the true-crime business. The two-time Flight Attendant Emmy winner will star in Based on a True Story, a “dark comedic thriller” series that will stream on Peacock, ABC [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Pac-Man’ Fever: Video game star is big-screen bound thanks to ‘Jane The Virgin’ vet’s production company
Getty Images Sure, Pac-Man has made some pretty big cameos, appearing in shows like The Goldbergs and Stranger Things, and movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and the Adam Sandler comedy Pixels — [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Singer, activist and ‘Grease’ star Olivia Newton-John dies at 73
Michael Tran/FilmMagic Chart-topping singer, actress and activist Olivia Newton-John has died, according to a post on her Instagram page from her husband, John Easterling. She was 73. “Dame Olivia Newton-John passed away peacefully at her [Read More…]
ABC National News
Brianna Grier, woman who fell out of moving police car, died of ‘severe blunt force injury’ to the head: Autopsy
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Brianna Grier, the Georgia woman who died after falling out of a police car last month, died from a severe blunt force injury to the head, according to the preliminary [Read More…]
ABC National News
Ahmaud Arbery hate crime case: Father, son sentenced to life; neighbor gets 35 years
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The father and son convicted of federal hate crimes in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced Monday to life in prison. Gregory McMichael, 66, chased 25-year-old Arbery on Feb. [Read More…]
Ag News
Weekend rains help crops in southern Minnesota
Weekend storms provided relief for dry fields across southern Minnesota. USDA’s latest weekly update shows crop development remains behind normal with 26 percent of corn at the dough stage and 60 percent of soybeans setting [Read More…]
Ag News
Drought continues to hurt MO crops, pastures
Drought in Missouri sees little relief on the week, pushing most crop and field conditions lower. USDA says corn silking is on pace at 95 percent. Corn doughing is two thirds complete, about even with [Read More…]
Ag News
Wisconsin farmer expects dry summer to impact yields
A west-central Wisconsin farmer is not expecting a bin buster this year. James Giese tells Brownfield, ” I don’t think we’re going to have a bumper crop, just a regular, average crop.” James Giese and his [Read More…]
Ag News
Rains provide a boost for late-planted soybeans in Tennessee
Recent rainfalls helped improve some crop conditions, despite being too late to help the corn crop. Late-planted soybeans have shown noticeable improvement with the recent showers. Soybeans are rated 42% good to excellent, with 86% [Read More…]
Ag News
Samantha Turner on Web Improvements
After a decade the Mosoy.org website is undergoing an upgrade. Missouri Soybean communications director Samantha Turner says its partly a resort of discussion with farmers. She says they wanted something that they can access in [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Tatiana Maslany on going green with Mark Ruffalo in ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’
A wise reptile once said, “It’s not easy being green.” But fortunately for Tatiana Maslany, she’s become close with her She-Hulk: Attorney at Law co-star Mark Ruffalo. In the show, the Orphan Black Emmy winner [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
President Biden reacts to China drills near Taiwan
Sarah Silbiger/Stringer via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Joe Biden was leaving for Kentucky to survey flood damage, he was asked about China’s live fire military drills near the island of Taiwan. “I’m not [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Paramount thanking moviegoers with ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ “Fan Appreciation Weekend”
Paramount Pictures With Top Gun: Maverick flying past Titanic in the #7 slot of all-time domestic top grossers, Paramount Pictures is saying thank you to fans. The studio has announced a “Fan Appreciation Weekend” kicking [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kanye responds to Kim and Pete breakup news with IG “headline”
Stephane Cardinale/Corbis – Corbis via Getty Images Kanye West has responded to news of Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson‘s reported break-up as, well, one might expect him to. The recording artist posted to Instagram a [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Khloé Kardashian welcomes baby number two with ex Tristan Thompson
Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Remy Martin Baby number two has arrived for Khloé Kardashian and her ex, Tristan Thompson. The pair, who split in January, welcomed their second child via surrogate, a rep for Kardashian [Read More…]
ABC Business News
21,000% surge of little-known AMTD Digital is latest meme stock craze, analyst says
James Marshall/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Wild swings in the share price of a largely unknown Hong Kong-based fintech company in recent days have reminded some analysts and traders of the “meme stock” craze, which [Read More…]
ABC Health News
CDC sends team to New York to investigate polio case
Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deployed a federal team to New York to investigate the case of polio detected in Rockland County. The team [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Climate change could aggravate over half of known human pathogens, scientists say
TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Scientists have made a distressing discovery on how global warming will affect known infectious diseases. Climate hazards are expected to aggravate 58% of all known human pathogens, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
New abortion restrictions may push patients to more expensive, complicated care
Science Photo Library/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As more states enact near-total bans and restrictions on abortion, providers say many patients are experiencing delayed care which can force them into later stages of pregnancy. Abortion [Read More…]