Month: December 2025
‘Bridgerton’ showrunner teases upcoming season 4
Yerin Ha as Sophie and Luke Thompson as Benedict in ‘Bridgerton’ season 4. (Liam Daniel/Netflix) Dearest gentle reader, with the fourth season of Netflix’s romance series Bridgerton arriving in January, its showrunner, Jess Brownell, is [Read More…]
Reducing gulf dead zone possible, but challenging
An agricultural engineer says reducing the size of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is possible but won’t be easy. Dr. Matt Helmers with Iowa State tells Brownfield the agriculture sector can make [Read More…]
Tyler & Hybertson Named NAIA Women’s Volleyball Third-Team All-Americans
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Elizabeth Tyler and Kayleigh Hybertson round out the season of athletic honors with Third Team All-American distinctions by the NAIA, marking the first All-American awards for both athletes. Tyler was the highest-rated libero on the [Read More…]
Zgonc Earns All-American Recognition
BROOKINGS, S.D. – South Dakota State volleyball’s Sylvie Zgonc was recognized as an honorable mention All-American Wednesday by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). Zgonc is a repeat honoree, also picking up the accolade as a sophomore in [Read More…]
New counseling service set to serve rural residents and agricultural families
Davison County Commissioners Tuesday approved a request by Colleen Stegenga to operate a small-scale, home-based professional counseling office on her agricultural property near Mount Vernon. She says Embracing Change fills a need regarding mental health [Read More…]
Finding the $5 Christmas tree
Many families across the United States celebrate the holiday season with a Christmas tree. Although farmed and fake Christmas trees are full, symmetrical, and simple to get, they can be pricey. And rightly so – [Read More…]
Hegseth says Pentagon won’t release video of strike on drug boat survivors to public
Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, speaks during a Mexican Border Defense medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. US President Donald Trump [Read More…]
Accountability beats a trade war
A North Dakota farmer says enforcement is better than starting another trade war as the Trump administration investigates China’s follow-through in the phase one trade deal. Josh Gackle says China remains the most important export [Read More…]
Down day for soybeans, corn, wheat in pre-holiday trade
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. Crop conditions look good in most of Brazil, while parts of Argentina could see a warmer, drier pattern later this year or early next year. There was [Read More…]
Cattle futures higher ahead of USDA’s On Feed report
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were up ahead of the week’s direct business and Friday’s On Feed report from the USDA. February live cattle closed $.15 higher at $230.70 and April [Read More…]
Iowa farmers call for crop input prices to reflect today’s ag economy
A pair of Iowa farmers want to see crop input prices better reflect the current ag economy. Cordt Holub grows corn and soybeans south of Waterloo and says the high cost of seed, fertilizer, and [Read More…]
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: December 16, 2025
Mar. corn $4.36 and 1/2, down 3 and 1/4 centsJan. soybeans $10.62 and 3/4, down 9 centsJan. soybean meal $302.40, down $1.10Jan soybean oil 48.36, down 112 pointsMar. Chicago wheat $5.09 and 1/2, down 11 [Read More…]
Doctor sentenced to 8 months home supervision in connection with Matthew Perry’s ketamine death
Actor Matthew Perry of the television show ‘The Kennedys – After Camelot’ speaks onstage during the REELZChannel portion of the 2017 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Langham Hotel on January 13, 2017 [Read More…]
DA’s office says it won’t use statements Luigi Mangione made at station house following arrest
Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 9, 2025 in New York City. Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — [Read More…]
Rob Reiner’s son, Nick Reiner, faces 1st-degree murder charges with special circumstances: DA
Rob Reiner and Nick Reiner attend the AOL Build Speaker Series in New York City, May 4, 2016. (Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic via Getty Images) (LOS ANGELES) — Nick Reiner will be charged with the murders of [Read More…]
MIT professor shot, killed at his home in Boston suburbs: Officials
The William Barton Rogers Building on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Photographer: Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — A professor at the [Read More…]
MIT professor shot, killed at his home in Boston suburbs: Officials
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BOSTON) — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been shot and killed at his home, authorities said. [Read More…]
Sen. Mark Kelly clashes with Hegseth over Pentagon’s investigation into him
Sen. Mark Kelly arrives for a closed door meeting on Capitol Hill, Dec. 16, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s investigation into him a “bunch of [Read More…]
Trump to address nation Wednesday night
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’ll deliver a live national address on Wednesday at 9 p.m. from the White House. “It has been a great year for our Country, and [Read More…]
‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ to get digital and Blu-ray release
Artwork for ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ (20th Century Studios) If you didn’t get to see Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere in theaters, you’ll now have a new chance to see the film. The movie about [Read More…]
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