Month: August 2022
Ag News
Bullish on soybean oil
Domestic soybean crush capacity is increasing with plant expansions and new facilities coming online. Kent Beadle with CHS Hedging says renewable diesel is driving the demand for soybean oil, and he tells Brownfield that market [Read More…]
Weather
Special Weather Statement issued August 08 at 3:54AM MDT by NWS
…Locally Dense Fog This Morning… Areas of fog have developed this morning. Visibility may fall to below one mile at times, with some location experiencing visibility less than one quarter of a mile. Travelers should [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Anne Heche in “stable condition” after fiery Los Angeles car crash
Actress Anne Heche is in stable condition after she was involved in a fiery car crash on Friday that damaged a Los Angeles home, her representative has confirmed to ABC News. The Los Angeles Police [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Jays top Twins on overturned call in 10th; Baldelli ejected
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Cavan Biggio hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and Whit Merrifield scored on an overturned call to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Twins top Blue Jays 7-3 behind clutch Polanco, strong ’pen
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s bullpen — and prospect of staying in first place — took a badly needed turn this week for the better. The trade deadline produced some true relief for them. Jorge Polanco [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Vikings’ middle men Tomlinson, Phillips viewed as vital to D
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The switch in schemes by the Minnesota Vikings and their edge rushing potential has dominated the narrative around their defense this season. With new addition Za’Darius Smith and healthy returner Danielle [Read More…]
ABC National News
Cancer-causing chemical found in Michigan pond
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — Michigan state investigators said test samples taken Thursday from Hubbell Pond in Milford showed low-level presence of a toxic chemical that was released into the Huron River System by the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Multistate manhunt for person of interest sought after four people fatally shot in Ohio
Alfredo Alonso Avila/EyeEm/Getty Images (BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Ohio) — The FBI is involved in a multistate manhunt for a person of interest sought in the fatal shooting of four people in Ohio. The person of interest, identified [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Sensors, 4D imaging, flashing lights: How automakers are trying to prevent hot car deaths
Toyota (NEW YORK) — An average of 38 children die every year in hot cars. Tuesday marked the 14th hot car death in the U.S. this year, a number that is expected to rise as heat [Read More…]
ABC Health News
How the U.S. struggled to respond rapidly to the monkeypox outbreak: Experts
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In early May, when the first cases of monkeypox surfaced in the United Kingdom and Europe, health officials in the United States advised Americans not to panic. There had been [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden tests negative for COVID but will keep isolating out of ‘caution’
Evan Vucci – Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday after experiencing a rebound infection but will continue to isolate until he gets a second negative result, the White House [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate parliamentarian gives green light to most of Democrats’ drug pricing plan
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The Senate parliamentarian has signed off on key climate and health care provisions in the Democrats’ major spending bill. The rulings from Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber’s non-partisan rule keeper, come before [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Indiana governor signs bill banning nearly all abortions into law
Michael Hickey/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an abortion bill into law Friday, banning the procedure with very few exceptions, making it the first state to pass such a bill since Roe [Read More…]
ABC National News
Flash flooding threats and extreme heat on tap this weekend
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Flooding is possible on Saturday for large swaths of the country — including hard-hit eastern Kentucky — as millions of Americans are also under heat advisories. Flash flooding is possible in [Read More…]
ABC National News
Former WNBA star Niesha Butler opens first Afro-Latina-owned STEM camp in New York City
S.T.E.A.M. Champs (NEW YORK) — Former WNBA player Niesha Butler has opened the first Afro-Latina-owned STEM camp, S.T.E.A.M. Champs, in New York City to reduce accessibility barriers to tech educational resources for Brooklyn youth. “If a [Read More…]
ABC National News
Hundreds stranded in Death Valley National Park amid flooding
Death Valley National Park (NEW YORK) — All roads in and out of Death Valley National Park are closed after unprecedented amounts of rainfall caused substantial flooding in the area, park officials said Friday. Approximately 500 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Two dead, five missing after boat capsizes off Florida Keys, Coast Guard says
holgs/Getty Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — Two people are dead and five are missing after a boat capsized near the Florida Keys, the U.S. Coast Guard said Friday night. The boat, which was determined to have been [Read More…]
ABC World News
People in Beirut reflect on what they’ve lost two years after port blasts: Reporter’s notebook
Ibtissem Guenfoud/ABC News (BEIRUT, Lebanon) — An explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in Lebanon’s biggest seaport in 2020 has left deep trauma in the Lebanese psyche. Opera singer Michel Bou Rjeilly says Beirut will [Read More…]
Ag News
Hot weather on the southern Plains, seasonal heat across the Corn Belt; storms in the upper Midwest
Across the Corn Belt, moderate temperatures favor reproductive to filling summer crops, except in the middle Missouri Valley. Later Friday, much of Nebraska and South Dakota—extending into western Iowa and southwestern Minnesota—should experience high temperatures [Read More…]
Latest News
Mall of America reopens following shooting and lockdown
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America reopened Friday as police search for two people involved in a shooting inside the suburban Minneapolis shopping complex that sent some shoppers running for cover. Bloomington police [Read More…]