Year: 2024
Ag News
History could be on side of higher grain prices
History could be on the side of higher grain prices as the market slide continues. University of Minnesota grain market economist Ed Usset says over the past 20 years, a yearly high for corn prices [Read More…]
Ag News
Former national FFA officer reflects on time in office
The most recent National FFA officer from Illinois is reflecting on her time in the blue and gold during this National FFA Week. Gracie Murphy, of Macomb, retired from her role as regional vice president [Read More…]
ABC World News
Two years into war, Russian forces make offensive gains as Ukrainian weapons dwindle
belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — Instead of sending a deluge of troops into Avdiivka to overpower the Ukrainians holding the frontline city, Russian forces earlier this month instead began sending in just a few soldiers at [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ukrainian chat helps Russian families find soldiers who were captured or killed
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Almost two years into Russia’s invasion, with Moscow’s losses estimated by Kyiv at more than 300,000 soldiers, the Ukrainian authorities launched a project called “Want To Find” to help Russian [Read More…]
ABC World News
US imposes ‘crushing’ sanctions on Russia two years after Ukraine invasion
President Joe Biden meets with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya on Feb. 22, 2022. — @POTUS/X (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has announced more than 500 sanctions on Russia, its enablers, and its war machine on Friday [Read More…]
ABC World News
Scientists announce discovery of ‘very strange’ 240 million-year-old ‘Chinese dragon’ fossil
Dinocephalosaurus orientalis. — National Museums Scotland (LONDON) — Scientists in Scotland have revealed a remarkable discovery of a “very strange” 240 million-year-old “Chinese dragon” fossil. The international team from National Museums Scotland revealed their discovery [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Authorities plan for threats to Republican, Democratic presidential conventions
Henrik5000/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Months before they’re set to begin, law enforcement is already planning a massive effort to protect the presidential nominating conventions set for this summer, according to a new federal bulletin. The [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
NY’s Nassau County announces ban on trans women from competing in women’s sports in county-run facilities
AdShooter/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced Thursday that he will use an executive order to ban transgender athletes from competing in events aligning with their gender identity in county-run [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Greta Gerwig talks ‘Barbie’ “snub”
Warner Bros. Pictures Greta Gerwig is addressing what was widely perceived as one of the biggest snubs of the 2024 Oscars nominations. The filmmaker earned a nomination for best adapted screenplay for Barbie along with [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: ‘True Detective’ coming back for season 5, and more
On the heels of True Detective: Night Country‘s season finale on February 18, Variety reports HBO has picked up the anthology series for a fifth season, with Night Country creator Issa López to direct as [Read More…]
Ag News
Temps vary across the Heartland; scattered showers, and snow, in parts of the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, rain showers are primarily affecting areas east of the Mississippi River, extending as far north as the southern tier of Michigan. Above-normal temperatures throughout the Midwest support off-season farm work in [Read More…]
ABC National News
Three University of Wyoming swimmers killed in car crash
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team have died in a single-vehicle crash, according to the school. The accident happened on U.S. Highway 287, about [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Small study shows a possible reason some long COVID patients experience ‘brain fog’
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — According to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at Trinity College in Ireland used blood tests to measure certain biological markers and specialized brain images to discover [Read More…]
ABC Business News
IRS to open its free tax filing site to more new users
courtneyk/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the tax filing season gets underway, taxpayers in some states will have a new way to file online available to them in “the coming days,” the IRS said this week. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Danai Gurira, ‘Talking Dead”s Chris Hardwick talk ‘The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’
Good Morning America — Steve Granitz/FilmMagic The newest spinoff of The Walking Dead debuts Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on AMC and streams afterward on AMC+. The show reunites Danai Gurira‘s Michonne with Andrew Lincoln‘s [Read More…]
Ag News
Unseasonably mild to warm, periodically active pattern ahead across much of the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures from the Pacific Coast to western sections of Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, while warmer-than-normal weather will dominate the central and [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas county issues disaster declaration ahead of April total solar eclipse
Edwin Remsberg/Getty Images (KILLEEN, Texas) — A small county in Texas is bracing for a state of emergency when hundreds of thousands of skywatchers are expected to flock to the South for the total solar [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Class B Region Semifinal Results and SoDAK 16 Bracket
Region 1B No. 1 Warner 64, No. 4 Britton-Hecla 31 No. 3 Northwestern 49, No. 2 Leola-Frederick Area 47 Region 2B No. 1 Arlington 64, No. 5 Iroquois-Lake Preston 32 No. 2 James Valley Christian [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Class A Region Semifinal Results and SoDAK 16 Bracket
Region 1A No. 1 Sisseton 64, No. 4 Milbank 43 No. 2 Aberdeen Roncalli 44, No. 3 Groton Area 35 Region 2A No. 1 Flandreau 46, No. 4 Sioux Valley 30 No. 2 Florence-Henry 57 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg slams Arizona prosecutor who won’t extradite murder suspect: ‘Political games’
Surprise Police Department (NEW YORK) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg criticized his Maricopa County, Arizona, counterpart who doesn’t want to extradite a New York City murder suspect, saying she’s playing “political games in a [Read More…]
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