Month: December 2025
Ag News
USDA reports big week-to-week surges in broiler sets, placements
Broiler sets and placements remain aggressive as 2025 draws to a close. The USDA says 251.382 million broiler-type eggs were set into incubation, rising 3.419 million on the week and 1% on the year, with [Read More…]
Ag News
Illinois livestock economist urges price protection despite strong cattle markets
An assistant professor at the University of Illinois says increased volatility in the cattle markets is leading more producers to explore risk management strategies. Brittney Goodrich, who specializes in livestock for the FarmDoc team, tells [Read More…]
Ag News
Growing Up with Livestock: How Farm Life Shaped My Beliefs About Animal Welfare and Human Compassion
I am a proponent of animal welfare. That value was engrained in me as a child as my family, just like the generations before them had, cared for the hogs and cattle that supported our [Read More…]
Ag News
Farm Bureau leader says USDA bridge payments are a short-term fix
The vice-president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says USDA’s new Farmer Bridge Assistance Program is appreciated and it’s yet to be determined if it will be enough to help farmers. In an interview with [Read More…]
ABC National News
Rob Reiner murders latest: Nick Reiner makes 1st appearance in court
Nick Reiner, son of Rob Reiner is arrested in Los Angeles, Dec. 14, 2025. LAPD (LOS ANGELES) — Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, renowned Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Fraud charges follow subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings collapse
Signage outside a Tricolor dealership in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Ash Ponders/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed criminal charges Wednesday in connection with the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Moderate Republicans buck leadership and back Democrat effort to extend ACA health care subsidies
Exterior view of the U.S. Capitol on October 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Eric Lee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of moderate House Republicans broke ranks with GOP leadership on Wednesday to force a vote [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Billy Crystal, Albert Brooks, more remember Rob Reiner, Michele Singer
Billy Crystal and Rob Reiner attend the Hand and Footprint Ceremony: Billy Crystal at the 2019 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival on April 12, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for TCM) Several [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Muppet Show’ shares exclusive teaser for upcoming special
‘The Muppet Show’ artwork/(Courtesy of Disney+) Fans of The Muppet Show are getting their first look at the show’s upcoming special 50 years after its debut. A teaser for the upcoming special was released Wednesday. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Buck Rogers’ star Gil Gerard dead at 82
Gil Gerard as Captain William “Buck” Rogers (Photo by Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) Actor Gil Gerard, best known for playing the title role in the sci-fi series Buck Rogers [Read More…]
Ag News
Southeast Minnesota farmer says soil health practices are paying dividends
A southeast Minnesota farmer says conservation practices are paying off. Tom Cotter began using cover crops and reducing tillage in the late 1990’s. “When you treat soil healthy and treat it good, the nitrogen is [Read More…]
ABC National News
Powerball jackpot surges to $1.25 billion ahead of Wednesday’s drawing
Purchased Powerball tickets ((Photo by Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A $1.25 billion Powerball jackpot prize is up for grabs Wednesday night, with a cash value of $572.1 million, [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Warner Bros. board tells shareholders to reject Paramount offer in favor of Netflix
In this photo illustration a man holds a iPhone, that shows Netflix, Warner Bros and Paramount streaming apps on his phone screen on December 9, 2025 in Bristol, England. (Anna Barclay/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
When the Final Buzzer Comes Too Late
Travis Kriens. KORN News Radio Sports Director I pulled back into Mitchell at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning after covering the Mitchell Kernels girls and boys basketball doubleheader at Watertown on Tuesday night, Dec. 17. That’s [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In brief: Simu Liu to make Broadway debut in ‘Oh, Mary!’ and more
The trailer for season 2 of The Artful Dodger has arrived. Hulu has released the official trailer for the new season of the Australian comedy-adventure series starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis and Maia Mitchell. The [Read More…]
Ag News
Joplin Regional Stockyards owner says cattle market signals strong 2026
The owner of one of the largest sale barns in the country says for the most part, 2025 was a pretty good year for the cattle industry. Jackie Moore with Joplin Regional Stockyards in Missouri [Read More…]
ABC World News
Alleged Bondi Beach gunman charged with 15 counts of murder, police say
An Israeli flag and flowers are laid outside Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach as people gather to mourn in the wake of a mass shooting on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Audrey Richardson/Getty Images) [Read More…]
ABC National News
How a young Texas mom was killed in a brutal ambush outside her workplace
mphotoi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Alyssa Burkett arrived at her Texas workplace one fall morning in 2020, the 24-year-old mother of one didn’t know a deadly plan against her was already unfolding. On the [Read More…]
ABC National News
US economy flashes warning signs in new data, some analysts say
Men work in construction in Manhattan on December 16, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The federal government released two major economic reports this week, easing a backlog of data pent [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Rock band of Minnesota judges and justices performs despite threats surge
ABC News (ST. CLOUD, Minn.) — For Justice Anne McKeig, the high-stakes endeavor of deciding cases on the Minnesota Supreme Court is increasingly an exercise in stress management and risk tolerance. “It is an overwhelming [Read More…]
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