Month: July 2023

Hanna Lassen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Greta Gerwig’s Barbie defied a sluggish pandemic recovery at movie theaters to rake in $155 million domestically over its opening weekend. The haul made it the highest-grossing debut of [Read More…]

‘The Bachelorette’ recap: Charity picks the four men whose families she’ll meet

ABC/Craig Sjodin It was a week of fun dates and tough eliminations on Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette, as Charity tried to gain some clarity before deciding on which four of her six remaining suitors’ families she’ll meet [Read More…]

‘The Bachelorette’ recap: Charity picks the four men whose families she’ll meet

ABC/Craig Sjodin It was a week of fun dates and tough eliminations on Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette, as Charity tried to gain some clarity before deciding on which four of her six remaining suitors’ families she’ll meet [Read More…]

Former Columbia University OB-GYN to be sentenced for sexual abuse conviction

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Robert Hadden, the former Columbia University gynecologist who prosecutors said “abused his position of power to assault patient after patient, year after year,” is slated to be sentenced to [Read More…]

Carlos Correa’s RBI single in the 10th inning gives Twins a 4-3 win over Mariners

July 24, 2023 Travis Kriens

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carlos Correa’s flare to right field evaded a sliding Teoscar Hernández and scored automatic runner Donovan Solano as the Minnesota Twins won their second straight game in extra innings, beating the Seattle [Read More…]

Love endures for soldier who lost both arms, sight during war

Alina and Andriy Smolensky (KYIV, Ukraine) — EDITOR’S NOTE: Readers may find some images disturbing. Andriy and Alina Smolensky were just 22 years old when they were introduced by a mutual friend at a party [Read More…]

NASA’s mission to collide with asteroid sent ‘swarm of boulders’ into space

Space Telescope Science Institut/ESA/NASA (NEW YORK) — A “swarm of boulders” was sent careening into space after NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid last year, according to the space agency. The Double Asteroid [Read More…]

K-9 officer put on leave after police dog attacks surrendering suspect

Ohio State Highway Police (CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio) — An Ohio K-9 officer has been put on administrative leave, and his dog placed in a kennel, following an incident this month in which the animal was captured [Read More…]

Obamas’ family chef found dead in pond on Martha’s Vineyard, police say

Google Maps (MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass.) — The body of a missing paddleboarder recovered from a pond in Martha’s Vineyard on Monday morning was an employee of former President Barack Obama, the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) [Read More…]

Carlee Russell’s disappearance was ‘hoax’; charges possible, police say

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (HOOVER, Ala.) — Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who returned home on July 15 after she was reportedly missing for two days, was never missing, Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis told [Read More…]

Former reverend arrested for allegedly killing 8-year-old girl in 1975 while she was on her way to his Bible camp

Delaware County District Attorney’s Office (MARIETTA, Ga.) — An 83-year-old former reverend has been arrested for allegedly killing an 8-year-old girl in 1975 while she was on her way to his Bible camp, authorities said. [Read More…]

DOJ sues Texas, Abbott over ‘unauthorized’ anti-migration barriers in Rio Grande

Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice on Monday sued the state of Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott over the installation of a barrier of buoys in the Rio Grande River [Read More…]

Elon Musk’s Twitter rebranded as X. Here’s why

Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The signature blue bird perched atop social media platform Twitter vanished on Sunday as part of a company rebrand under a new name: X. The revamp [Read More…]

South Dakota crops could use more rain

USDA says more than half of South Dakota’s crops are getting adequate moisture. As of Sunday, the state’s moisture supply was 56% adequate, 3% surplus, 33% short, and 8% very short. Subsoil moisture needs more [Read More…]

Ag groups prepare for Federal Milk Marketing Order hearing

Farmer and processor groups are now preparing for a USDA hearing on the Federal Milk Marketing Order system. American Farm Bureau Federation economist Daniel Munch says the USDA has outlined the scope of the hearing [Read More…]

61% of Indiana corn, 59% of soybeans rated good to excellent

The USDA says cool and dry conditions aided winter wheat harvest last week in Indiana. Ninety-six percent of the crop is harvested, slightly behind its five-year pace. Sixty-one percent of Indiana’s corn crop is in [Read More…]

Most Wisconsin crops remain dry

Scattered rains brought little relief to Wisconsin crops last week. USDA statistician Greg Bussler says there were reports of severe weather damaging crops in northwestern Wisconsin with some fields being a total loss. One of [Read More…]

27% of Missouri corn and soybeans rated good to excellent