Month: July 2024

Authorities in Placer County, California, search for missing Jeeper Warren Elliott, who was last seen on July 19, 2024. (Placer County Sheriff’s Office) (NEW YORK) — A 70-year-old man has been missing since Friday after [Read More…]

Karen Read murder case: Judge sets 2025 date for retrial

Jason Marz/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A Massachusetts judge has scheduled the retrial in Karen Read’s murder case for early next year, three weeks after declaring a mistrial in the high-profile case. Read was accused of [Read More…]

Trans teen stabbed in Miami airport, police investigating as potential hate crime

Kali9/Getty Images (MIAMI) — 17-year-old transgender teen was stabbed inside a terminal at Miami International Airport at about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, sending her to the hospital in critical condition and prompting a disruption of [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: 2 hostages ‘no longer alive,’ IDF says

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, efforts to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization are ongoing, and Israeli forces have launched an assault in Khan Younis in [Read More…]

Red Sea tensions reach new high as US considers new sanctions on Houthis

KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Israel and Houthis in Yemen have traded fire for the first time, escalating tensions nine months after commercial ships in the Red Sea started to come under threat from the rebel [Read More…]

Civilians in Sudan endure 15 months of ‘indiscriminate and widespread’ violence: Humanitarian report

People wait to receive food cards after registering as new arrivals at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Agari, North Kordofan, on June 17, 2024. — Guy Peterson/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — [Read More…]

Ag News

Drone technology has come a long way in a short time

Aerial drone technology is advancing rapidly, and what a drone can do for farmers now compared to a few years ago is vastly different. Jeramy Williams with American Drone discusses the advancements and uses for [Read More…]

Ag News

EPA awards Nebraska $307 million to cut climate pollution

Nebraska’s Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) is receiving $307 million in federal funds to tackle climate pollution. The funds are the largest amount ever awarded to the state from the Environmental Protection Agency. NDEE [Read More…]

Ag News

Future of AI explored at International Conference on Precision Agriculture

Exploring the possibilities of using artificial intelligence in agriculture. That’s a topic discussed Monday at the International Conference on Precision Agriculture, in Manhattan, Kansas. Ohio State University professor Scott Shearer says AI is still in its [Read More…]

Ag News

South Dakota crops lag behind pace, conditions improve some

Conditions for some South Dakota crops are improving slightly, but progress continues to lag behind the five-year average for the state. Soybean conditions are rated 70% good to excellent. USDA says 3% of the state’s [Read More…]

Ag News

A slight decline in MN crop conditions

Minnesota’s crop conditions took a slight dip or stayed consistent in the last week with most of the crops behind average progress for this time of the year. USDA says 20% of Minnesota’s soybeans are [Read More…]

Jackley Joins Attorneys General Group in Opposing Biden Proposal to Reschedule Marijuana as Schedule III Drug

Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined other Attorneys General in opposing a Biden Administration proposal to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act. He’s one of 11 Attorneys [Read More…]

Names Released in Lincoln County Fatal Crash

South Dakota authorities have identified the two people involved in a fatal crash last Friday morning in Lincoln County. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says around 5:30 am, 28 year old Darrian O’Neal [Read More…]

Vantage Point Solutions Acquires BKI Engineering

Vantage Point Solutions has acquired BKI Engineering Services, including wholly-owned subsidiary Utility Resource Collaborative. The move adds power engineering and wildfire mitigation planning expertise to the existing broadband engineering and consulting services already supporting power [Read More…]

Minnehaha County Fatal ATV Crash

A Sunday evening ATV crash claimed the life of one person and severely injured another near Garretson. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety reported a Polaris ATV was traveling north on a gravel road [Read More…]

The First Chili-Cook Off at Stampede Park

July 21, 2024 J.P. Skelly

Seventeen teams competed for top-honors during Sunday’s Corn Palace Stampede Rodeo Chili Cook-off at Stampede Park. Cookoff Chairman Stan Peterson says when to comes to a championship chili, anything goes…… And at the end of [Read More…]

Police: Nine shot, three fatally, when ‘multiple’ gunmen open fire at large Philadelphia party

kali9/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Nine people were shot, three fatally, when gunfire involving multiple gunmen erupted early Sunday at a party in Philadelphia, authorities said. The mass shooting unfolded around 2 a.m. on the 1200 [Read More…]

Election 2024 updates: Harris says she intends to seek nomination for president

Justice Sonia Sotomayor swears in Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during the Presidential Inauguration, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out [Read More…]

Harris thanks Biden as she receives growing chorus of endorsements

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Constitutional Convention of the UNITE HERE hospitality union in New York on June 21, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris thanked [Read More…]

Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race