Month: August 2023
ABC Entertainment News
‘Arrow’ vet Stephen Amell catches arrows from fellow SAG-AFTRA actors for saying he “does not support striking”
Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic Actor Stephen Amell, famous from CW’s so-called Arrow-verse of superhero shows and now on the STARZ wrestling show Heels, has taken a heel turn of his own, in the eyes of those supporting [Read More…]
Ag News
Grassley says 2023 Farm Bill probably won’t include cattle market reform
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa says it isn’t likely his proposed cattle market reform will be included in the 2023 Farm Bill. He tells Brownfield Senator Fischer, one of the main leaders in this [Read More…]
Ag News
“Bad year for insects,” says Integrated Pest Management specialist
Insects are on the march across the Midwest. University of Minnesota Extension integrated pest management specialist Bruce Potter says conditions in his state and several others have been favorable for pests. “This has just been [Read More…]
ABC National News
Deadly stabbing of gay man at NYC gas station investigated as potential hate crime
LEREXIS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The deadly stabbing of a 28-year-old professional dancer at a Brooklyn, New York, gas station is being investigated by the NYPD as a hate crime, police sources told ABC-owned station [Read More…]
ABC National News
Biden to keep Space Command in Colorado, enraging Alabama’s Tuberville
Michael Dunning/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. Space Command will stay in Colorado after President Joe Biden decided to undo Trump-era plans to relocate the center to Alabama — and some are arguing the move [Read More…]
ABC National News
Police say no known link between Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann, Atlantic City slayings
Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) — There’s no apparent connection between Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann and the killings of sex workers near Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2006, prosecutors said Tuesday. The [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Cases of leprosy in Florida on the rise: CDC
FS Productions/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Cases of leprosy are rising in Florida, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the disease is still rare in the U.S. — with just 159 cases [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Suits’ producer addresses show’s streaming resurgence and the possibility Meghan Markle could return in reboot
L-R: Adams, Rick Hoffman, Macht in 2015 — NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment/Theo Wargo If you’re a Netflix subscriber, chances are you’ve seen a trailer for the former USA Network legal drama Suits. Given Nielsen numbers, there’s [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Serena Williams reveals sex of baby no. 2 with husband Alexis Ohanian
Taylor Hill/Getty Image Serena Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, have some thrilling news to share — they’re expecting a baby girl! The couple, who are already doting parents to their adorable 5-year-old daughter Olympia, documented the moment in [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: ‘Vanderpump’ star going to Fox’s ‘Special Forces’ reality show, and more
Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval will compete on the second season of Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, according to Variety. The series tasks celebrities from all genres to take on — and try to [Read More…]
Ag News
Get the weed seeds out of the combine
Dan Smith with the University of Wisconsin says there are weed seeds in every combine that has been in a field, and getting them out is the key to preventing the spread of weeds and [Read More…]
Ag News
Temps vary across the Heartland; scattered rains western Corn Belt & parts of the Plains
Across the Corn Belt, below-normal temperatures have returned, following last week’s adversely hot conditions. At the height of the heat wave, from July 25-29, the western Corn Belt experienced as many as 5 consecutive days [Read More…]
Latest News
26-Year-Old Omaha Man Arrested for Assaulting Juvenile at Lake Poinsett Business
A 26-year-old man from Omaha, Nebraska, was charged and arrested for simple assault and disorderly conduct after punching a juvenile in the face at a business at Lake Poinsett. The incident occurred on Saturday, July [Read More…]
ABC World News
Body of hiker missing for 37 years discovered in melting glacier
Valais cantonal police / Kantonspolizei Wallis (LONDON) — The body of a hiker who has been missing for 37 years has been unearthed on a thawing glacier near the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. A [Read More…]
Latest News
Sentencings in Watertown, S.D. Embezzlement Case
The federal embezzlement case against 37-year-old Reva Plunkett of Watertown, SD, came to a close this week as she was sentenced to 94 months in federal prison without parole, after which Plunkett will have three [Read More…]
ABC National News
Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann due in court
Olena Ruban/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann is set to appear in court on Tuesday as authorities continue to investigate the slayings. Police last week concluded their search at Heuermann’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
TBI investigating after Memphis police say they thwarted ‘potential mass shooting’ at Jewish school
(MEMPHIS) — Tennessee’s lead law enforcement agency is investigating an officer-involved shooting of a man who allegedly opened fire outside a Jewish school in Memphis on Monday afternoon. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced in [Read More…]
ABC National News
TBI investigating after Memphis police say they thwarted ‘potential mass shooting’ at Jewish school
WATN (MEMPHIS) — Tennessee’s lead law enforcement agency is investigating an officer-involved shooting of a man who allegedly opened fire outside a Jewish school in Memphis on Monday afternoon. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘A lifelong recovery’: 2-year-old girl’s journey after she was shot by a stray bullet
Courtesy of Miraida Gomez and Gregory Arias (NEW YORK) — Five days a week, at 8:30 a.m., two-year-old Catherine Arias arrives at a children’s hospital in Valhalla, New York — 10 miles north of New [Read More…]
ABC National News
Suspect arrested for allegedly hitting 6 migrants with SUV, police say
Lincolnton Police Department (NORTH CAROLINA) — Police in Lincolnton, North Carolina, arrested a man on felony hit and run charges on Monday after six migrants were allegedly hit by a vehicle outside a store on [Read More…]