Month: February 2024
Ag News
Cash hogs close higher on Wednesday
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were up and feeders were mostly higher, getting ready for the week’s direct business and Friday’s USDA Cattle on Feed report. April live was $.37 higher at $187.70 and [Read More…]
Ag News
TN visas have become difficult to approve
A National Pork Producers Council leader says a popular worker visa program has become very difficult to use. Regional Director Luke Wall tells Brownfield farmers have seen an influx of delays and rejections for three-year [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: February 21, 2024
Mar. corn closed at $4.11, down 7 and 3/4 centsMar. soybeans closed at $11.60 and 3/4, down 18 and 1/4 centsMar. soybean meal closed at $342.00, down $5.60Mar. soybean oil closed at 44.83, down 58 [Read More…]
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South Dakota House Passes Teacher Salary Floor and Pay Increase Legislation
The South Dakota House of Representatives has approved a package that would require each school district in the state to set a $45,000 floor for the average teacher salary starting July 1, 2026. The legislation [Read More…]
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Names Released in Yankton County Fatal Crash
Yankton County, S.D.- A 45-year-old man died Saturday evening in a two-vehicle crash in Yankton County. Preliminary crash information indicates a Ford van driven by Michael J. Myers of Sioux Falls was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of [Read More…]
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Sioux Falls Woman Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for Meth Conspiracy
Marissa Apodaca from Sioux Falls was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for her involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy. She was one of 24 co-conspirators, with 14 of them from South Dakota. Apodaca pleaded [Read More…]
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Corrections secretary pushed on ballooning costs for prison projects
John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE – Lawmakers peppered the Department of Corrections secretary with questions on Wednesday morning about the growing gap between initial and current price points for two new state prisons. [Read More…]
ABC National News
DOJ charges Japanese Yakuza leader for allegedly attempting to traffic nuclear materials
U.S. Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department unsealed new charges against a leader of the notorious Japanese Yakuza gang who they accuse of attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear materials from Burma to [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas AG accuses Catholic nonprofit of ‘human smuggling,’ sues to shut it down
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — The Texas Attorney General’s office is suing to shut down a well-known Catholic nonprofit that helps to shelter migrants in El Paso, Texas. Officials from the AG’s office [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Nikki Haley agrees with Alabama court ruling: ‘Embryos, to me, are babies’
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said in an interview Wednesday that she agrees with an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are considered people in the state. “Embryos, to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
James Biden tells House committee that his brother ‘has never had any involvement’ in his business dealings
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — James Biden, the president’s younger brother, told lawmakers at a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that the president “has never had any involvement or any direct [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Nearly 3 million asthma attacks could be prevented among children with cleaner energy: Report
P Deliss/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly three million asthma attacks in children could be prevented by 2050 if the United States transitioned to electric vehicles and clean power, according to a new report published [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Boeing replaces Ed Clark, leader of 737 Max program, in wake of midair incident
Mordolff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Boeing has announced it is replacing the head of its 737 Max program as part of a reshuffling of the company in the wake of the much-publicized incident of a [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“Destiny awaits”: Kevin Hart, Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis rock out in new ‘Borderlands’ trailer
Lionsgate On Wednesday, Lionsgate dropped the snarky, shoot-’em-up trailer to Borderlands, the action-comedy movie based on the bestselling video game franchise. For the big-screen bow, Kevin Hart and Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Robert Downey Jr., Brendan Fraser, Sterling K. Brown among Screen Actors Guild Awards presenters
SAG Awards On Wednesday, 30 presenters were announced for the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be held at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles on February 24. Two-time SAG [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza live updates: UN food agency pauses deliveries to northern Gaza
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest [Read More…]
ABC World News
Scientists discover how whales can sing under water and how shipping noise can disrupt communication
George Karbus Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A discovery on how baleen whales are able to sing under water is giving scientists a better understanding on how noise pollution from shipping activity can alter marine [Read More…]
ABC World News
‘My son is not a doll’: The story of Gaza’s baby Muhammad as his family grieves amid misinformation
ABC News (NEW YORK) — An image of a mother holding her dead infant in her arms outside a hospital in Gaza went viral last year but it was denied in online posts viewed millions [Read More…]
ABC World News
Eleven lions rescued from conflict-hit Sudan arrive in South Africa
Hristo Vladev/Four Paws (LONDON) — Eleven lions rescued from conflict-hit Sudan have found a new home in South Africa, animal welfare organization Four Paws has announced. The lions — rescued among a total of 48 [Read More…]
ABC World News
Kremlin rejects call for independent postmortem on opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Flowers are seen placed around portraits of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian Arctic prison, at a makeshift memorial in front of the former Russian consulate in Frankfurt am Main, [Read More…]
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