Month: December 2023
Latest News
Judge blocks most of an Iowa law banning some school library books and discussion of LGBTQ+ issues
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked key parts of an Iowa law that bans some books from school libraries and forbids teachers from raising LGBTQ+ issues. Judge Stephen Locher’s preliminary injunction [Read More…]
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Small Plane Crashes near Vermillion Airport in Clay County; Occupants Escape Unharmed
Authorities in Clay County responded to a small plane crash near Vermillion Airport on Friday afternoon. The plane, found upside down near the runway, had two occupants who escaped without injuries. The pilot, facing engine [Read More…]
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Noem grants early release to 12 convicted of felonies for drug use
John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight – Gov. Kristi Noem used the Friday before Christmas to reduce the sentences of nine women and three men convicted of felonies for using drugs in 2023. Each of the 12 [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
The Year in Entertainment 2023: Those we lost
Here’s a look back at those the entertainment community lost in 2023: January January 7 – Adam Rich, Eight Is Enough actor, 54 January 12 – Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis, 54 January 17 [Read More…]
Ag News
Hearing on milk marketing orders resumes January 16th
An American Farm Bureau economist expects USDA’s hearing on milk pricing could wrap up early in the new year, but the process is far from over. Danny Munch says the Federal Milk Marketing Order hearing [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle, hog futures finish Friday mixed
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were mixed, consolidating at the end of the year, with boxed beef mixed at midday. There was periodic support from the week’s higher direct trade, but not [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: December 29, 2023
Mar. corn closed at $4.71 and 1/4, down 3 centsJan. soybeans closed at $12.93 and 1/2, down 11 and 3/4 centsJan. soybean meal closed at $386.00, down $7.00Jan. soybean oil closed at 47.84, up 35 [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza live updates: IDF publishes findings after three hostages accidentally killed
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended on Dec. 1, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Civil rights leader speaks out on AMC theater seating incident
Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (GREENVILLE, N.C.) — Civil rights leader Rev. William Barber II spoke out in a press conference Friday after a Dec. 26 incident at an AMC theater in Greenville, North [Read More…]
ABC National News
Michael Cohen admits fake cases in early release bid came from Google AI program
Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s onetime fixer Michael Cohen sent his attorney non-existent legal cases produced by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard as he sought to beef [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden urges Congress to pass additional aid following Russia’s aerial assault on Ukraine
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday condemned Russia for launching its “largest aerial assault on Ukraine” since the start of the war, warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must be stopped,” [Read More…]
ABC Health News
California becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants
ATU Images/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES)– California will welcome the new year by becoming the first state to offer health insurance for all undocumented immigrants. Starting Jan. 1, all undocumented immigrants, regardless of age, will qualify [Read More…]
ABC Business News
How Wall Street reckoned with climate change in 2023
Matteo Colombo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Wildfire smoke bathed New York City’s front-line workers in fumes, atmospheric rivers forced hundreds of thousands of California homes into darkness, and hurricane Idalia battered tourism in Florida. Natural [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Football leads the charge for most-watched TV of 2023
Getty Images Variety has compiled its list of the year’s 100-most-watched telecasts, and as always, the NFL remains unchallenged for broadcast viewer supremacy: In fact, 19 of the top 20 in that 100 were football [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Gary Oldman says he was “mediocre” in the ‘Harry Potter’ films
Oldman in ‘Slow Horses’ – Apple TV+ Gary Oldman was already known as one of the best actors in the world before snagging a Best Actor Oscar for playing Winston Churchill in 2017’s Darkest Hour, [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA partners with Smithsonian Institution
USDA says a scientific partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will help protect U.S. plant health from invasive species. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has signed a memorandum of understanding [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybeans, corn end final 2023 trading day in the red
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling, pulling contracts to a lower weekly close. Forecasts had an improved chance of near-term rainfall in some of the drier areas of Brazil. That’s going to boost [Read More…]
Ag News
IRFA: Strong year for ethanol in ‘23
The executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says 2023 was a good year for the ethanol industry. Monte Shaw tells Brownfield movement from the EPA on E15 finally took place towards the end [Read More…]
Ag News
Near-seasonal temps, but an increasingly more active weather pattern ahead for the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures throughout the northern half of the U.S., while cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to the South. Meanwhile, near- or [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA ag price indices down in November
Farmers paid and made slightly less in November than October. The USDA’s index of prices received was down 0.1% on declines in corn, cattle, hogs, and turkeys against gains in soybeans, market eggs, lettuce, and [Read More…]
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