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Dense Fog Advisory issued November 22 at 7:48AM MST until November 22 at 10:00AM MST by NWS

…DENSE FOG ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CST THIS MORNING… * VISIBILITY…Visibility of a quarter mile or less is likely through late morning. * IMPACTS…In addition to the dense fog reducing visibilities, fog [Read More…]

Dense Fog Advisory issued November 22 at 3:24AM MST until November 22 at 8:00AM MST by NWS

…DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING… The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has issued a Dense Fog Advisory, which is in effect until 9 AM CST this morning. * [Read More…]

More favorable weather, for now, across the Heartland

In the Corn Belt, seasonally cool, mostly dry weather is allowing some producers to complete corn and soybean harvest efforts. However, soils remain wet in much of the eastern Corn Belt, where Ohio’s topsoil [Read More…]

Talking turkey

Steve Olson, executive director of the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association, says the state is recovering from the high path avian influenza outbreak in 2015. He also has some interesting insight on how trade impacts the [Read More…]

IKEA store in Italy welcomes stray dogs this winter

ABC News(CATANIA, Italy) — An IKEA in Italy has set the internet alight by providing a home for stray dogs during the freezing winter months. Social media users praised the shop’s open-door policy for strays [Read More…]

Arctic blast producing coldest Thanksgiving in decades

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Thursday will be the coldest Thanksgiving in decades for most of the Northeast, the result of an Arctic blast of air that’s pushing temperatures 15 to 25 degrees colder than a [Read More…]

A more active pattern over the Holiday Weekend

A changing weather pattern will feature a pair of Pacific storms; each will traverse the West before crossing the central and eastern U.S. The first storm system will produce widespread, late-week precipitation across the [Read More…]

US Navy treats more than 14K patients halfway through mission to help Venezuelan refugees

Scott Bigley/U.S. Navy(TURBO, Colombia) — Medical staff members from a U.S. Navy hospital ship have already seen about 14,500 patients during the first half of the ship’s mission to Central and South America to assist [Read More…]

Dense Fog Advisory issued November 22 at 3:24AM MST until November 22 at 8:00AM MST by NWS

…DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING… The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has issued a Dense Fog Advisory, which is in effect until 9 AM CST this morning. * [Read More…]

Amtrak cars detach near Albany, stranding riders ahead of Thanksgiving

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Amtrak passengers were left in the cold on Wednesday night when a mechanical issue caused two train cars to detach, stranding riders on a dark railway ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Amtrak [Read More…]

A hurricane-devastated community is coming together for Thanksgiving

ABC News(PANAMA CITY, Fla.) — A little over a month after Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle as one of the strongest storms in U.S. history, members of one of the hardest-hit communities [Read More…]

Inside the Supreme Economy: Streetwear, phones, bots and side hustles

Claudio Lavenia/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Every Thursday morning at 11:00 a.m., Marlon Smith watches his computer or his phone, waiting for the newest Supreme products to drop. This has been his Thursday routine since he [Read More…]

Firefighter pilots on California peak rescue amid wildfire: ‘There was really nowhere to run, nowhere to go’

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) — Two firefighter pilots who rescued three people and their dogs off a California peak told ABC News the fire roaring toward the ridge would likely have killed the stranded group within [Read More…]

Police make arrest in killing, sex assault at St. Louis Catholic Supply store

iStock/Thinkstock(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — A Missouri man was arrested in connection with a heinous crime spree at a Catholic Supply chain store in St. Louis in which a female customer was fatally shot and at [Read More…]

American killed by isolated tribe in India after fishermen smuggled him onto the island: Police

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — An American man has been killed by a remote tribe after taking an illegal trip to one of the Andaman Islands in India. John Chau, 27, was killed on North Sentinel Island, [Read More…]

New dairy insurance program covers 3 billion pounds of milk and growing

The new dairy revenue protection insurance program is expected to cover about five percent of milk production in the U.S. during the first quarter, and a USDA official says many producers have already signed up. [Read More…]

‘Person of interest’ detained for questioning killing and sex assault at St. Louis Catholic Supply store

iStock/Thinkstock(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — A “person of interest” was detained Wednesday for questioning about a heinous crime spree at a Catholic Supply chain store in St. Louis, Missouri, in which a female customer was fatally [Read More…]

US military to build observation outposts in northern Syria to reduce tensions with Turkey

SPC Arnada Jones/U.S. Army(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military has announced a new mission in northern Syria aimed at reducing tensions between Turkey and America’s Kurdish partners. Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters on Wednesday that [Read More…]

NASA to launch ‘workplace safety review’ of Elon Musk’s high-flying SpaceX firm