Year: 2022
ABC Business News
Target recalls children’s weighted blankets after 2 kids died
Consumer Product Safety Commission (NEW YORK) — Target is telling customers to stop using some weighted children’s blankets that were sold in its stores and online after four incidents where children became entrapped, two of [Read More…]
Ag News
McKalip confirmed as USTR’s chief ag negotiator, Esteban to USDA Thursday
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Doug McKalip to serve as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. Senators also confirmed Dr. Jose Emilio Esteban to serve as Under Secretary for Food Safety [Read More…]
Weather
Blizzard Warning issued December 22 at 7:02PM MST until December 23 at 5:00PM MST by NWS
…BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST FRIDAY… …WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SATURDAY… * WHAT…For the Wind Chill Warning, dangerously cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as [Read More…]
Weather
Wind Chill Warning issued December 22 at 7:02PM MST until December 24 at 11:00AM MST by NWS
…BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST FRIDAY… …WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SATURDAY… * WHAT…For the Wind Chill Warning, dangerously cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as [Read More…]
ABC National News
Winter storm cancels over 2,000 flights: Your holiday forecast
JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A massive storm bringing heavy snow and blizzard conditions is hitting the U.S. right as the holiday travel rush gets underway. Over 2,200 flights are canceled in [Read More…]
ABC National News
DC police officers found guilty in fatal pursuit of man on electric scooter
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two Washington, D.C., police officers were found guilty in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown during a police pursuit. On Oct. 23, 2020, Hylton-Brown was driving an electric scooter without a [Read More…]
ABC National News
How to stay safe and prepare for freezing temperatures
Suda Yuichi / EyeEm / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Break out the gloves and hats: bitter cold is moving in, bringing what could be the coldest Christmas in decades for parts of the U.S. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate passes $1.7T spending bill, including Ukraine aid, getting one step closer to averting shutdown
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday reached a last-minute deal on a sprawling $1.7 trillion package to keep the government funded through the next fiscal year — and send more aid to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden delivers ‘Christmas address’ from White House: ‘We have become too divided’
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden delivered what the White House called a “Christmas address” Thursday afternoon where he emphasized unity, reflection and kindness as 2022 comes to end. Biden said he hopes [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Former ‘Goldbergs’ star Jeff Garlin heading to ‘Never Have I Ever”s final season
ABC Jeff Garlin, who parted ways with ABC’s The Goldbergs following an investigation into on-set bullying and other bad behavior, is headed to Mindy Kaling‘s Never Have I Ever. Deadline reports Garlin will be playing [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Don Cheadle opens up to ‘People’ about his pandemic wedding
Marvel Studios While credit for breaking the broom-jumping news goes to Wanda Sykes when she was subbing in the closing weeks of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Don Cheadle is opening up to People about his [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ flies onto Paramount+ Thursday
Paramount Pictures The highest-grossing film of 2022, and of Tom Cruise‘s career, Top Gun: Maverick, is finally available for streaming for free — provided you have Paramount+. Incidentally, subscribers looking to fulfill their need for [Read More…]
Ag News
Crop prices mostly lower heading into the end of the week
Soybeans were lower and March beans are still having trouble surpassing the $15 mark. Crop conditions in Brazil remain mostly favorable. However, southern Brazil and Argentina are really dry and could use a rain. There [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: December 22, 2022
Mar. corn closed at $6.60 and 1/2, down 1 3/4 centsJan. soybeans closed at $14.67, down 13 and 1/4 centsJan. soybean meal closed at $452, down $4.00Jan. soybean oil closed at 65.80, down 51 pointsMar. [Read More…]
Ag News
Live cattle mostly higher, hogs higher ahead of USDA reports
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mostly higher, and feeders were higher waiting for direct cash business to develop. Boxed beef was sharply higher at midday and traders are looking to Friday’s Cattle [Read More…]
Ag News
Sluggish week for export sales
Export sales for soybeans, corn, wheat and beef all saw declines, according to the latest Weekly Export Sales report. China remained the top buyer of soybeans, as demand has picked up in recent weeks as [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag group teaches new drivers to share the road with machinery
A county farm bureau is teaching new drivers to be aware of ag equipment on the roads. Galva, Illinois farmer Kate Huffman chairs the Henry County Farm Bureau Health and Safety Committee. She tells Brownfield [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Hello, Wisconsin! Netflix drops the trailer to the spin-off ‘That ’90s Show’
Netflix/Patrick Wymore Nearly the entire cast of That ’70s Show — Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama, Kurtwood Smith, and Deborah Jo Rupp — can be seen in Netflix’s new trailer [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Avatar’ sequel star Kate Winslet on James Cameron’s strong female characters, proving him right
20th Century Studios James Cameron knows a thing or two about creating strong female characters. After all, he’s the guy who created waitress-turned-Terminator killer Sarah Connor; who helped turn Sigourney Weaver into a bona fide [Read More…]
Ag News
Time runs out for farmer protection legislation
Legislation that would exempt farmers from proposed reporting requirements through the Securities and Exchange Commission didn’t make it through Congress in time. More than 120 Members of Congress support H.R. 9063, known as the Protect [Read More…]