Steve Nedved
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Apr 12
5-year-old may have been thrown off 3rd floor of Mall of America: Police
vmargineanu/iStock(BLOOMINGTON, Minn.) — A 5-year-old suffered “significant injuries” after falling from the third floor of the famed Mall of America in Minnesota and may have been thrown or pushed, according to police, who cited witnesses. Cops were called to the mall, in Bloomington, around 10:15 a.m. Friday after the child landed on first floor, Bloomington …
Apr 12
ASA past president is Missouri Soybean Hall of Fame inductee
Gary Riedel was inducted Wednesday into the Missouri Soybean Hall of Fame. The Centralia soybean grower served as president of the Missouri Soybean Association in the early 80s and the American Soybean Association in the early 90s. He tells Brownfield the soybean checkoff, which he was involved in founding, has resulted in greater demand for …
Apr 12
Milk futures mixed, cash dairy higher
Milk futures on the Chicago Mercantile closed in mixed territory Friday as many traders stayed on the sidelines in both future and cash trade. April Class III milk up a penny at $15.92. May unchanged at $15.78. June unchanged at $15.83. July down two cents at $16.12. August through December contracts were four cents lower …
Apr 12
Winter wheat up on late bounce
Soybeans were steady to fractionally lower in low trade volume. The trade continues to wait and see what happens next in talks with China. Negotiations have reportedly progressed well, but there’s no public timeline for the resumption of face to face discussions after the recent teleconferencing. Beans are also watching South America’s harvest and getting …
Apr 12
Brantley Gilbert heads to the racetrack to debut new song, “Not Like Us”
The Valory Music Co.Brantley Gilbert’s new album won’t be out until fall, but there’s a new track from the project you can sample now. The song, “Not Like Us,” is also part of a tie-in with NASCAR. You can hear it during this weekend’s Monster Energy Cup Series Toyota Owners 400, in a feature about driver Chase Elliott. …
Apr 12
Johnny Bobbitt, homeless veteran involved in GoFundMe scheme, gets 5 years probation
imaginima/iStock(NEW YORK) — Johnny Bobbitt, who concocted a feel-good story with a woman and her boyfriend to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of a GoFundMe campaign, has been sentenced to five years probation. Part of the terms of the probation sentence, which was handed down in a New Jersey court Friday, include …
Apr 12
“LEGACY” is live: Garth Brooks offers another chance to pre-order vinyl set
ABC/Image Group LAThe third pre-sale window for Garth Brooks’ LEGACY vinyl collection is now open. The set includes seven vinyl albums, as well as seven CDs with bonus tracks not on the original records. The three-disc set Triple Live, as well as No Fences, The Chase, In Pieces, and Fresh Horses are all part of the package. So far, in the 48 hours that …
Apr 12
Man arrested after setting clothes on fire near White House
iStock/OlegAlbinsky(WASHINGTON) — A man was arrested after trying to set himself on fire near the White House on Friday. An individual in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, lit his jacket on fire while he was wearing it, a law enforcement official told ABC News. The Secret Service responded immediately, extinguished the …
Apr 12
How Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning became intertwined
Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — It’s been a little more than nine years since Chelsea Manning first contacted Wikileaks and provided Julian Assange’s organization with hundreds of thousands of classified documents and a video of an Apache helicopter strike that killed Iraqi insurgents and two photographers working for Reuters. Their life stories have been intertwined since …
Apr 12
Investigation launched into handling of Jussie Smollett case
Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — Kim Foxx, the embattled Chicago state’s attorney whose office has come under fire for its handling of the Jussie Smollett case, has asked the local inspector general to look conduct an “independent review” of their investigation, she confirmed in a statement. The news comes the day after the city’s law department …