Month: April 2024
Ag News
Still much to learn about HPAI in cattle
The Kansas Animal Health Commissioner says the agriculture industry has learned a lot about the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus in dairy cattle in the last month, but there’s still a lot to learn. Dr. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Schools close in Louisiana as severe weather, tornadoes threaten South
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — A large storm system is bringing a threat of strong tornadoes, damaging winds and hail to the South on Wednesday, with the severe weather forecast to stretch from [Read More…]
ABC National News
Virginia ex-assistant principal charged a year after 6-year-old shot his teacher
Jay Paul/Getty Images (NEWPORT NEWS, va.) — The former assistant principal of Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, where a 6-year-old shot his teacher in January 2023, has been indicted for child abuse, according [Read More…]
ABC National News
6 former Mississippi police officers sentenced on state charges in torture of Black men
WAPT (BRANDON, Miss.) — Six former white Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to state charges related to the racially motivated torture, sexual assault and shooting [Read More…]
ABC National News
UPS worker shot dead in targeted attack while leaving work, police say
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Police in Birmingham, Alabama, are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a UPS worker in a targeted attack, authorities said. The shooting unfolded at about 6:05 p.m. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Speaker Johnson defends his leadership ahead of meeting with GOP’s Marjorie Taylor Greene
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday defended his leadership strategy ahead of a meeting with fellow Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, who has threatened to remove Johnson from his post. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump files another petition in bid to scuttle upcoming hush money trial
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is trying again on Wednesday to fight his upcoming criminal hush money trial in New York, asking an appeals court to intervene. The Appellate Division [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months for perjury
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in former President Donald Trump’s [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Eight-year-old viral social media star raises awareness for ARFID through food tastings
Family photo (NEW YORK) — Eight-year-old Hannah is winning over audiences and raising awareness for a rare but serious disorder one bite at a time. Hannah, along with her mother Michelle, has gone viral with [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Inflation surged higher in March
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Consumer prices rose 3.5% in March compared to a year ago, accelerating markedly from the previous month and reversing some of the progress achieved in a two-year fight to [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Tesla stock has plummeted this year. Will the company recover?
Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tesla, the Elon Musk-led electric vehicle company, appears desperate for a tune-up. The company’s share price has plummeted more than 25% so far this year, making it one of [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: CBS renews ‘FBI’ block, and more
Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis will officially premiere in competition May 17 at the Cannes Film Festival, an insider tells Deadline. Coppola began working on the screenplay in the 1980s and invested $100 million of his [Read More…]
Ag News
Demand for Soybeans Goes Beyond the Beans
Growing demand for US soybeans is important. But it’s also important to diversify demand for other products like oil and soybean meal. In this Checkoff Chat, April Hemmes, an Iowa farmer and USB farmer leader, says [Read More…]
News
$9-Million Dollar Price-Tag for South Dakota Recruitment Campaign
Governor Kristi Noem’s administration has signed a contract amendment raising the maximum spending on workforce recruitment ads starring the governor to $9 million. The contract is publicly viewable in the state’s online portal for financial documents, Open.SD.gov, which [Read More…]
News
Mitchell School Staff Positions Filled
Things are looking up for staffing in the Mitchell School District…. Superintendent Joe Childs says some are familiar faces….. He says Mitchell’s recent ranking as the number one high school in South Dakota [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Cornel West to announce running mate for independent 2024 campaign
Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West speaks to the community and congregation at Second Baptist Church in Santa Ana, Mar. 29, 2024. (Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Register via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Independent presidential candidate Cornel West [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Arizona abortion ruling, which Democrats decry, splits Republicans and abortion opponents
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, R-Ariz., takes questions at a news conference, Feb. 29, 2024, in Phoenix. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The Arizona Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to uphold a near-total abortion ban [Read More…]
ABC Health News
EPA announces first national standard limiting ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
d3sign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a new rule mandating the first-ever national standard for the presence of so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water. The new standard limits six [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Boy, 12, describes four-year battle with ‘invisible’ disease of long COVID
Meredith Eubanks (NEW YORK) — Theo Huot de Saint-Albin was a 9-year-old elementary school student when he first contracted COVID-19 in July 2020, near the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Four years later, as much [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Some Aruba Aloe hand sanitizer, gel products recalled due to warnings of methanol contamination
FDA (NEW YORK) — Aruba Aloe Balm N.V. has issued a voluntary recall of some of its hand sanitizer products due to the presence of alcohol denatured with methanol, which poses significant health risks to [Read More…]