Year: 2024
Preparing for OTT Dicamba Training
The 2024 planting season is just around the corner and farmers need to make sure they’re fully prepared. In this Managing for Profit, Jennifer Stutz, North American Weed Management and Chemistry Stewardship Manager for Bayer [Read More…]
AFBF asks USDA for emergency dairy formula change
The American Farm Bureau Federation asked the USDA to make an emergency milk price formula change to prevent further financial losses for producers. Economist Danny Munch tells Brownfield Farm Bureau generally opposes legislative overrides, but [Read More…]
Livestock economist expects cattle inventory to decline again
A livestock economist says he expects an already small cattle herd to get smaller. University of Missouri livestock economist Scott Brown says just how small remains to be seen. “My crystal ball says 3% lower,” [Read More…]
Committee passes ‘school safety 2.0’ bill onto the state Senate
Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight – A bill mandating minimum safety standards in public schools — without requiring armed guards — was unanimously approved Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee at the Capitol in Pierre. The [Read More…]
Free birth certificates, ID cards for homeless people endorsed by House committee
PIERRE, (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) — Homeless people would be in line for free South Dakota birth certificates and state ID cards under the terms of two bills that advanced out of a state House [Read More…]
Time for a car wash
With warmer temperatures this week, Triple-A South Dakota is encouraging drivers to get their vehicle washed. Shawn Steward with Triple-A South Dakota says there’s good reason to so….. As well as safety concerns…… [Read More…]
James Valley Drug and DUI Court celebrates success
Last week the James Valley Drug and DUI Court hosted a commencement ceremony for two graduates. 2022 James Valley Drug Court program graduate John Peterson delivered the keynote address…. Graduate Jai had 514 days [Read More…]
Targeted ‘diet weed’ ban clears first hurdle in House committee
PIERRE, (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) — There are at least three shops that sell products made from the legal, hemp-derived cousins of marijuana within a half mile of the state Capitol. On Tuesday, lawmakers took [Read More…]
Israeli Forces may have violated international law in West Bank hospital raid, experts say
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israeli Forces may have violated international law in the raid they conducted inside a hospital in the West Bank that resulted in the death of three Palestinian men both Hamas [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel channeling water into Gaza tunnels
A Palestinian elderly woman crosses a street which has been bulldozed by the Israeli forces during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on January 29, 2024 amid ongoing battles between Israel and [Read More…]
Studies suggest experimental drug could be alternative to opioids: What to know
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A pharmaceutical company has presented new data for an experimental drug that they say can reduce acute pain, raising the possibility of an alternative to addictive opioids. In a [Read More…]
House Republicans bring Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas one step closer to historic impeachment
Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, speaks during a news conference while visiting the U.S.-Mexico border, Jan. 8, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — [Read More…]
China’s hackers are preparing to ‘wreak havoc’ and ’cause real world harm’ to Americans: FBI director
Westend61/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — China’s hackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” and “cause real-world harm” to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray will warn in Congressional testimony submitted on Wednesday. Director Wray, along with U.S. Cyber [Read More…]
US optimistic that another Gaza hostage deal and pause in fighting are, at last, within reach
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Despite vacillating comments from key figures involved in negotiations to free the more than 100 hostages thought to still be detained in Gaza, U.S. officials remained bullish on Tuesday [Read More…]
Trump can stay on Illinois 2024 ballot after 14th Amendment challenge, officials say
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump can remain on Illinois’ presidential primary ballot, the State Board of Elections voted on Tuesday, dismissing another challenge to the former president’s eligibility under Section 3 of the [Read More…]
Wife of Sen. Joe Manchin injured in Birmingham car crash: Police
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Gayle Manchin, the wife of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, was injured in a car crash as a suspect allegedly fled police in Birmingham, Alabama, authorities said. On Monday, [Read More…]
Trial to begin for former Ohio sheriff’s deputy in 2020 shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr.
Family of Casey Goodson (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Opening statements will begin Wednesday in the trial of a former sheriff’s deputy charged in the 2020 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old Black man who was entering his [Read More…]
Police looking into social media post after man in his 60s found dead in bathroom of Pennsylvania home
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An investigation is underway in Middletown Township, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, after a man was found dead inside a home on Tuesday night, according to police. Police responded to [Read More…]
Human skeletal remains found just off trail in Joshua Tree National Park
National Park Service (NEW YORK) — Human skeletal remains have been discovered just off of a trail in Joshua Tree National Park, police say. The grisly discovery happened last Thursday at approximately 12:08 p.m. when [Read More…]
Prosecutor in Trump’s Georgia election case reaches ‘temporary agreement’ ahead of divorce hearing
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade has come to a “temporary agreement” canceling an upcoming hearing in his divorce proceedings that have embroiled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her [Read More…]
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