Month: October 2023

NBC/Rosalind O’Connor Pete Davidson wants his work to be taken seriously, but he’s not nearly serious enough to blame you for thinking otherwise. That’s the gist of “I’m Just Pete,” the Barbie-spoofing video that aired [Read More…]

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Variable crops continue in eastern MO

Harvest results vary across eastern Missouri. In the northeast, Sam Sullivan with Central Elevator says there’s a clear difference in the crops that received rain and crops that didn’t. “The areas that didn’t get the [Read More…]

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Aflatoxin reports begin in central MO

A central Missouri farmer says the extreme drought conditions were too much for his corn crop. Nathan Alpers from Cooper County tells Brownfield irrigation helped the corn make it to fall, but stalk quality wasn’t [Read More…]

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Harvest resumes after weekend rains

Farmers in southeastern South Dakota are starting to resume harvest after the weekend rains. Kevin Scott from Minnehaha County tells Brownfield the two inches of rain was needed. “We needed it to moisten the soil [Read More…]

Train Cars Derail and Spill Cargo in Mitchell, No Injuries Reported

Multiple train cars owned by Ringneck & Western Railroad derailed and tipped over near 1st Avenue and South Minnesota Street in Mitchell on Saturday afternoon. Thankfully, there were no injuries reported in the incident. The [Read More…]

New Native American mentoring program in South Dakota builds lifetime bonds

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch When Coleman Eagle Elk first met a boy he expects to mentor from youth to adulthood, he used an ancient indigenous instrument to find common ground through song. [Read More…]

Q&A: Rounds on regulating AI, which will impact ‘every single aspect of our lives’

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Talk of artificial intelligence is all but unavoidable in 2023. The emergence of tools like ChatGPT for text generation and Midjourney for art have pushed the technology into the public consciousness in a way voice [Read More…]

Mitchell Kernels Girls Basketball Schedule 2023-24

Mitchell Kernels girls basketball looks to build on the momentum of last year’s Class AA state tournament appearance with a return trip to the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls. The Kernels start the season at [Read More…]

Chris Evans confirms marriage to Alba Baptista

ABC/Randy Holmes — Netflix/Manolo Pavón At New York Comic Con on Saturday, Chris Evans proudly displayed his wedding band while confirming his marriage to fellow actor Alba Baptista. In front of the eager audience, Evans [Read More…]

Will Smith says Jada Pinkett Smith’s confessions about their marriage “woke him up”

ABC Will Smith has responded to his wife Jada Pinkett Smith‘s forthcoming memoir Worthy and the revelations about their marriage. In an email shared with The New York Times, Smith candidly expressed that his wife’s revelations in her memoir “woke [Read More…]

In Brief: Piper Laurie dead, and more

Piper Laurie, best known for her film roles as Sissy Spacek’s ultra-religious mother in Brian De Palma‘s Carrie and Paul Newman‘s love interest in The Hustler, died Saturday, October 14, in Los Angeles after a [Read More…]

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Farm safety top of mind at harvest

A county commissioner who farms in southern Minnesota is emphasizing farm safety as harvest continues. Kevin Paap of Garden City in Blue Earth County says there was recently a farm accident and a neighbor lucky [Read More…]

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Crop rotation considerations

With harvest advancing across the U.S., Enlist field specialist Mark Mongen says farmers are reflecting on a growing season full of ups and downs. And as plans for 2024 take shape, he tells Brownfield weed [Read More…]

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“Quiet” weather on the Plains; still unsettled over the far eastern Corn Belt

Across the Corn Belt, any showers are light and limited to the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region. Meanwhile, frost and light freezes were noted early Monday in parts of the western Corn [Read More…]

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A tranquil pattern to start across the Heartland; gradual warming, a more showery trend ahead

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures in much of the eastern U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail in northern New England and most areas from the Pacific [Read More…]

Local, Regional and National Sport stories

Mitchell Kernels Boys Basketball Schedule 2023-24

Mitchell Kernels boys basketball will play eight of its first nine games at home this season as they look to defend their 2022-23 ESD title and make a run at a second consecutive trip to [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel to begin evacuation of towns near Lebanon border

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 1,300 people have died and 3,227 others have been injured in Israel after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented incursion from air, land and sea [Read More…]

‘Freaks me out’: Americans say they are trapped in Gaza

Maha Barakat, an American citizen stuck in Gaza, tells ABC News on Oct. 15, 2023, her agonizing ordeal attempting to flee the war-torn territory. — Maha Barakat (NEW YORK) — Terrified by constant bombings all [Read More…]

Illinois man charged with stabbing 6-year-old Muslim boy to death amid Israel-Hamas conflict: Police

The booking photo of Joseph M. Czuba — Will County Sheriff’s Office (PLAINFIELD, Ill.) — An Illinois man was charged with stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and seriously injuring his mother in what [Read More…]

Judge to hear arguments on proposed Trump gag order in Jan. 6 case