Month: March 2023
ABC Business News
Bank regulators blame SVB collapse on ‘textbook’ mismanagement during Senate grilling
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The country’s top banking regulators faced a grilling from lawmakers Tuesday about who was responsible for the the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Disgraced crypto exec Sam Bankman-Fried faces new bribery charge
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Embattled crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried now faces an additional criminal charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to a superseding indictment [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Succession”s fourth season debuts to show’s best numbers
HBO/Macall Polay Now these are numbers even Logan Roy could smile about: HBO’s Emmy-winning drama Succession debuted its fourth season Sunday night with a series record. The cable network touted some 2.3 million people watched [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Disney/Pixar debuts new ‘Elemental’ trailer
Disney/Pixar The new trailer for Disney and Pixar’s upcoming film Elemental is here. The film, which will take audiences to Element City, a world that centers around the four elements — fire, air, earth and [Read More…]
Ag News
Nebraska-based meat processor says grants have helped expand business amid rising demand
A local meat processor says recent grants have helped reduce the cost of expanding their business in an effort to meet consumer demand. Eric Klitz, owner of Nebraska-based Oak Barn Beef, says funds from USDA [Read More…]
Ag News
Outlook for the ag economy points to most expensive crop ever
Many in the ag industry are concerned the 2023 crop could be the most expensive ever raised. Nebraska farmer Ed Lammers tells Brownfield he hasn’t made many changes to his risk management plan even though [Read More…]
Ag News
GAO report: agencies need to track SAF usage to meet federal goals
A report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that federal agencies should track the use of sustainable aviation fuel to meet the administration’s climate goals. The GAO is asking the Departments of [Read More…]
Ag News
Nutrition program hurdles highlighted in hearing
Tensions are high as House Agriculture Committee members work on the nutrition title of the next farm bill. During a hearing with Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday, Ranking Member David Scott said he’s very [Read More…]
ABC World News
Thirty-nine dead after fire breaks out at migrant detention center in Juarez, Mexico
Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 39 people, officials said in a statement. The blaze began as [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
MLB commissioner says fans were catalyst to add pitch clock, other new rules
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — America’s pastime will look slightly different this season with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred saying fans are the reason the sport is working to evolve the action of the game. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Wendy Williams working on “several projects,” rep says
Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Don’t count Wendy Williams out just yet. The TV and radio personality’s rep, Shawn Zanotti, says Williams has several projects in the works. “We are still working behind the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Terry Sanderson, the man suing Gwyneth Paltrow for 2016 ski crash, testifies in civil trial
ABC/Christopher Willard Terry Sanderson, the man who accused Gwyneth Paltrow of crashing into him while skiing more than seven years ago and leaving him seriously injured, took to the stand Monday to testify in the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Rachel McAdams reveals if she’ll make a cameo in the ‘Mean Girls’ musical movie
McAdams (right) in “Mean Girls” — Photo by CBS via Getty Images With the Mean Girls musical movie officially in production, will any of the original stars make an appearance in it? Rachel McAdams, who [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: ‘The White Lotus’ moving to Thailand, and more
Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon has been given an October release date, Variety reports. The film, described as “a historical drama about the serial targeting and murder of members of the oil-rich Osage [Read More…]
Ag News
Another round of storminess in the West to shift into the Heartland; severe weather in the South
A storm system near the northern Pacific Coast will drift southward through mid-week before veering inland across southern California and the Southwest. Storm-related impacts in California should include valley rain, high-elevation snow, and gusty winds. [Read More…]
Ag News
Benefits of biofuels for the soybean industry
Due to the growth in biodiesel consumption, the value of U.S. soybeans have increased by 63 cents per bushel. In this Indiana Corn and Soybean Checkoff Connection, Helena Jette, Biofuels Director for the Indiana Soybean [Read More…]
Ag News
Chilly weather across the Heartland; some regional rivers systems in flood stage
Across the Corn Belt, mostly dry weather accompanies below-normal temperatures. Early Tuesday, exceptions to the dry pattern include light snow in eastern North Dakota and a rain/snow mix in the lower Missouri Valley. An extensive [Read More…]
Ag News
China buys more U.S. corn
The hot streak of U.S. corn sales continues. The USDA says China bought 136,000 tons of U.S. corn, the 10th of the last 11 business days with a reported sale of U.S. corn. The sales [Read More…]
Ag News
An active pattern continues into next week; a wide-range of temperatures across the Nation
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures across much of the northern and western U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail from the southern half of the Plains to [Read More…]
ABC World News
Four teachers, two students stabbed in Brazilian school
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SAO PAULO) — A 13-year-old student stabbed four teachers and two other students at a school in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, officials said. Elisabete Tenreiro, 71, one of the teachers injured in [Read More…]