Month: March 2023
ABC Entertainment News
Jena Malone reveals she was sexually assaulted while working on final ‘Hunger Games’ movie
Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Actress Jena Malone shocked fans with a heavy revelation captioning a picturesque photo she posted to Instagram Wednesday: She had been the victim of sexual assault. Explaining the photo was taken in [Read More…]
ABC National News
LA County will update its building codes after earthquake devastates Turkey, Syria
Mario Tama/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — After an earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria last month, killing 50,000 people, officials in Los Angles County voted Wednesday to update the county’s building code and require [Read More…]
ABC National News
Explosive found in checked luggage at Pennsylvania airport, man in custody
Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images (LANSFORD, Pa.) — An explosive device was found in a checked piece of luggage at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport on Monday, according to a criminal complaint. The passenger, Mark Muffley of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Man remains behind bars nearly 20 years after conviction overturned
Missouri Department Of Corrections (JACKSON, Mo.) — The nightmare gripping Ken Middleton’s family appeared to be possibly over in 2005. The same judge who in 1991 sentenced the Kansas City, Missouri, man to life without [Read More…]
ABC National News
Man takes airport bus for a joyride before being caught by police
WABC (NEW YORK) — A Brooklyn man stole an American Airlines bus from John F. Kennedy International Airport and drove it through three boroughs before he was pulled over by police in downtown Brooklyn. Burshawn [Read More…]
ABC National News
New York City to pay record settlement for ‘kettling’ George Floyd protesters
Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City and the New York Police Department have agreed to collectively pay millions to protesters who were arrested, detained or [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What’s likely behind mysterious ‘Havana syndrome’ that plagued US diplomats
Graeme Jennings – Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A review of ‘Havana syndrome” by the U.S. intelligence community finds it “very unlikely” that a foreign adversary or energy weapon is the cause, officials said Wednesday. That’s according [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Mississippi governor signs transgender health care ban for minors
Richard T. Nowitz/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill banning puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries for people under 18 in the state who are seeking gender-affirming health care. The [Read More…]
ABC Business News
TikTok imposes default time limit for young users
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Social media platform TikTok will set a default 60-minute screen time limit for users below age 18, the company announced on Wednesday. When the one-hour limit expires, young [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jason Reitman teases new ‘Ghosbusters’ film with “firehouse” set pic
Sony Pictures/Eric Charbonneau Jason Reitman, son of the late Ivan Reitman, who directed the original Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel, posted to his Instagram a photo that will get any franchise fan fired up. The [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Spit-gate update: Chris Pine reveals what really happened between him and Harry Styles
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Chris Pine is clearing the air about what happened between him and Harry Styles during the infamous “spit-gate.” Rumors sparked in September that Harry had spit on his Don’t Worry Darling co-star at the movie’s [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Curtains Upside Down: ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ to premiere later this year on London’s West End
Netflix A Stranger Things play will debut late this year at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End, Netflix announced Wednesday. Based on an original story by the Duffer Brothers, who created the streaming phenomenon, [Read More…]
Ag News
Cooperative applauds effort to stop misleading dairy labels
Legislation that would crack down on imitation dairy product labeling has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate. Brody Stapel is the President of Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, and he tells Brownfield their research shows the [Read More…]
Ag News
Corn grind, soybean crush up on month
Corn for use in ethanol production was mixed during January. The USDA says 443.551 million bushels of corn were used for ethanol production in January, up 4% from the December 2022 total with fewer disruptions [Read More…]
Ag News
CME milk futures, cash dairy prices down Wednesday
Milk futures and cash dairy prices all closed lower Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. March Class III milk was down $0.28 at $17.75. April was down $0.08 at $17.59. May was down $0.14 at [Read More…]
Ag News
Lawmakers pushing for year-round and permanent E15 availability
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is asking the Biden administration to allow year-round E15 sales this year. The 17 senators sent a letter to the White House at the end of February saying the [Read More…]
Ag News
Questionable conditions remain in Plains ahead of planting
An ag meteorologist is concerned about the lack of soil moisture in the High Plains as spring planting gets closer. Drew Lerner with World Weather Incorporated tells Brownfield conditions are questionable. “There’s going to have [Read More…]
ABC World News
Finland begins construction of barrier wall along border with Russia
pop_jop/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Finland has begun construction on a barrier fence along the border it shares with Russia, the country announced. Construction will begin on a pilot phase that’s 3 kilometers, or 1.8 [Read More…]
ABC World News
At least 38 dead, dozens more injured in Greek train derailment
SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 38 people were killed and more than 80 others injured in a head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Greece late [Read More…]
ABC World News
Prince Harry, Meghan reportedly asked by King Charles III to leave Frogmore Cottage, their UK home
Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images (LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, may no longer have a residence in the United Kingdom to call home. Harry and Meghan, who [Read More…]