Steve Nedved
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Mar 21
Minimum wage increase could hurt rural Illinois communities
The Illinois General Assembly recently passed a bill to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage from $8.25 to $15 dollars per hour. Representative Charlie Meier speaks for portions of Washington, Clinton, St. Clair and Madison counties at the capitol, which are mainly rural farming communities downstate. Brownfield spoke to Meier just before Governor Pritzker signed …
Mar 21
Michigan’s voluntary stewardship program sets national example
The Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Services says Michigan’s voluntary stewardship program can be a role model for other states. Chief Matt Lohr tells Brownfield NRCS and the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program share the same vision: to implement voluntary conservation practices. “I think some of these programs are really great on paper but …
Mar 21
Father and daughter who allegedly blamed panhandlers for his wife’s killing extradited back to Baltimore to face murder charges
Baltimore Police Dept.(BALTIMORE) — A father and daughter who authorities say fabricated a story of a panhandler stabbing his wife to death were extradited to Baltimore early Thursday to face murder charges as newly released documents show the husband allegedly asked his brother to help kill the victim. Keith and Valeria Smith were brought back …
Mar 21
Treasurer of NYPD charity for slain officers arrested for stealing over $400,000: Prosecutors
Onnes/iStock(NEW YORK) — When a police officer dies in the line of duty it often prompts an outpouring of generosity from within the ranks to support the officer’s family. But Lorraine Shanley, a volunteer treasurer for Survivors of the Shield, a nonprofit that helps the families of fallen New York Police Department, “monetized people’s generosity” …
Mar 21
“Bachelor” alum Lauren Bushnell is now officially Chris Lane’s “Take Back Home Girl”
James Devaney/Getty ImagesChris Lane and his girlfriend have taken things to the next level. Former Bachelor bride-to-be Lauren Bushnell has relocated from Los Angeles to Nashville and moved into a downtown condo with the “I Don’t Know About You” hitmaker. Coincidentally, Chris has long been an avid fan of the ABC reality series. Lauren finished season twenty in 2016 by …
Mar 21
‘There’s just snakes everywhere’: Pest control removes 45 rattlesnakes from under Texas man’s home
Nathan Hawkins/Big Country Snakes(ALBANY, Texas) — A Texas resident’s world was rattled after he learn he was sharing his home with several dozen deadly reptiles. Last week, the man crawled beneath his home near Albany to fix his cable line because his television was “acting up” due to the high winds in the area, Abilene-based …
Mar 21
Facebook admits to inadvertently storing ‘hundreds of millions’ of user passwords in plain text on company servers
alexsl/iStock(NEW YORK) — Facebook officials admitted on Thursday that the tech giant stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text — able to be read by employees. “As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data …
Mar 21
President Trump announces US will recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights
RnDmS/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Thursday changed decades of U.S. Middle East policy with a tweet, announcing that “After 52 years, it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israeli’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights.” Trump said the Golan “is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and …
Mar 21
JetBlue pilots accused of sexually assaulting 2 female crew members, lawsuit says
rypson/iStock(NEW YORK) — Two JetBlue pilots sexually assaulted two female airline workers during a layover in San Juan, according to a lawsuit the alleged victims filed in Brooklyn federal court. The two airline crew members, who were identified as Jane Doe 1 from Utah and Jane Doe 2 from Texas, met the pilots, Eric Johnson …
Mar 21
Flood Warning issued March 21 at 12:52PM MDT until further notice by NWS
…The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in Iowa… Nebraska…South Dakota… Big Sioux River At Sioux City Rock River At Rock Valley …The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in South Dakota…Iowa…Minnesota…
