Month: March 2024
‘Good Times’: J.B. Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown and more get animated in trailer from Netflix
Netflix Good Times, the classic Norman Lear sitcom, gets animated in a new trailer from Netflix. Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s J.B. Smoove, Community‘s Yvette Nicole Brown, black-ish alumna Marsai Martin and more lend their voices to [Read More…]
Ethanol stocks hit 53-week high
U.S. ethanol stocks hit a more than one-year high last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says the domestic supply of 26.092 million barrels was a 53-week high, up 83,000 on the week and 565,000 [Read More…]
Snow slows progress in west-central Minnesota but moisture welcome
Heavy snow is slowing fieldwork in west-central Minnesota. Noah Hultgren of Raymond says the winter was warmer and dryer than normal, but spring is starting off cold and wet. “In general, this is actually nice [Read More…]
More than one billion meals wasted per day in 2022, according to new UN report
CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Global households are discarding an exorbitant amount of food every year, despite food insecurity remaining one of the top concerns in several regions [Read More…]
What we know about Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
Via NTSB (BALTIMORE) — Just hours before the Tuesday morning commute was to get underway, the crew of a massive cargo ship leaving Baltimore harbor lost propulsion and control of the vessel, causing it to [Read More…]
Attorneys for Hunter Biden return to court in bid to toss tax case
Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden will return to federal court in Los Angeles Wednesday, seeking the dismissal of the nine tax-related charges brought against President Joe [Read More…]
Ticket sold in New Jersey matches all Mega Millions winning numbers for $1.13 billion prize
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A single ticket sold at a ShopRite liquor store in Neptune Township, New Jersey, had all of the winning numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing for the [Read More…]
Baltimore bridge collapse: Dad of 3 who lived in Maryland for 19 years among the 6 presumed dead
Via NTSB (BALTIMORE) — Six construction workers are presumed dead after a cargo ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, sending the workers into the water. Eight workers were fixing potholes on the span when [Read More…]
Avera Announces Major Expansion Plans
Avera announces plans to build a six-story tower addition to Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center and a three-story building on the Avera on Louise Health Campus. Combined, the projects will be the largest [Read More…]
‘Racism is real … and it’s awful,’ Utah women’s basketball coach says after team says they faced harassment on night out
PhotoAlto/Sandro Di Carlo Darsa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, city leaders have launched an investigation after members of the Utah women’s basketball team say they were subjected to racial slurs from two men [Read More…]
Mitchell Food Pantry Helps Spread Easter Joy
The Mitchell Food Pantry sponsored an Easter Dinner giveaway Tuesday afternoon. Karen Pooley of the Food Pantry says each vehicle received a ham, food box and a gallon of milk… Volunteers braved the blustery [Read More…]
McDonald’s to add three Krispy Kreme doughnuts to menus nationwide
Joff Lee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Krispy Kreme and McDonald’s are expanding their partnership to put three doughnut flavors on menus at the Golden Arches across the U.S. Following a successful local test at 160 [Read More…]
Jerry Bruckheimer talks next ‘Top Gun’, reveals next ‘Pirates’ movie will be a “reboot”
Jeff Spicer/Getty Images While promoting his next project, Guy Ritchie‘s action film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer spilled some tea about the next Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The [Read More…]
The Boss & The Bear: Jeremy Allen White frontrunner to play Springsteen on screen
Disney/Randy Holmes A planned movie about Bruce Springsteen’s effort to make the 1982 solo album Nebraska may have found the man to play The Boss. Deadline was the first to report that The Bear star [Read More…]
In Brief: Julia Roberts signs up for thriller ‘After the Hunt’, and more
Julia Roberts is teaming up with Call Me by Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino for the Amazon MGM thriller After the Hunt, Variety reports. Roberts, per the studio, stars as a college professor who, “finds [Read More…]
‘Ted Lasso”s Brett Goldstein to guest on his Apple TV+ show ‘Shrinking’
Apple TV+ Ted Lasso Emmy winner Brett Goldstein will appear in the second season of Apple TV+’s acclaimed dramedy Shrinking, The Hollywood Reporter says. It’s not known who he’ll be playing, but it probably wasn’t a hard [Read More…]
Vilsack points to CCC as potential farm bill solution
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says funding continues to be a major holdup in farm bill negotiations. “We’re still waiting for the House and Senate to put on the table what they are looking at, and [Read More…]
A late-winter look, feel on parts of the Plains; seasonally chilly to cool across the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, snow showers are confined to the upper Great Lakes region. Elsewhere, breezy, dry weather prevails. Snow remains on the ground in some of the previously driest areas of the upper Midwest, [Read More…]
Better Weed Control with More Convenient Options
TriVolt herbicide helps farmers control a wide variety of key grass and broadleaf weeds. In this Managing for Profit, Dominik Hoffmann, Asset and Product Manager for Herbicides North America with Bayer and John Buol, North [Read More…]
A change in “no antibiotic” chicken policy
Ten years ago, the fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A implemented a “No Antibiotics Ever” policy, which meant that no animals of any kind were used to raise the animals. The company recently announced that it was [Read More…]