Steve Nedved
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Mar 02
SpaceX launches rocket bound for International Space Station
ABC News/NASA(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — SpaceX, using a Falcon 9 rocket, successfully launched a space capsule bound for the International Space Station. After taking off around 2:50 a.m. EST on Saturday, the capsule is expected to reach the ISS on Sunday, about 27 hours after liftoff, according to the Associated Press. It will be docked …
Mar 02
WWII veteran who asked for 100 birthday cards for his 100th birthday gets thousands
Facebook/Brookdale Midwestern(NEW YORK) — World War II veteran Joe Cuba had one request for his 100th birthday: to receive 100 birthday cards. To his surprise, he received not 100, but thousands of letters, photographs and gifts from people all around the world. It all started Feb. 21 when the Brookdale Midwestern Retirement Community, where Cuba …
Mar 02
Amazon to open non-Whole Foods grocery chain
ablokhin/iStock(SEATTLE) — Amazon, which bought Whole Foods in 2017 for about $13.7 billion, is planning to open a separate grocery chain, beginning in Los Angeles, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sources familiar with the project told The Journal the first new store could open at the end of 2019 and that talks are underway …
Mar 02
Trump asks China to remove ag tariffs
President Trump says he has asked China to immediately remove all tariffs on U.S. ag exports. “I have asked China to immediately remove all Tariffs on our agricultural products (including beef, pork, etc.) based on the fact that we are moving along nicely with Trade discussions,” Trump said in a series of tweets late Friday …
Mar 02
Wind Chill Advisory issued March 02 at 2:59AM MST until March 04 at 11:00AM MST by NWS
…WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON CST MONDAY… * WHAT…Very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as 20 below to 35 below zero expected, with lowest readings occurring on Sunday and Monday morning. * WHERE…Portions of central, east central, south central and
Mar 01
2 day care workers charged with child abuse after authorities say video shows one throwing child into cabinet
Courtesy Attorney Jennifer Hansen(ST. LOUIS) — Two former daycare workers were arrested and charged this week after they were caught on video injuring children — one of whom needed stitches after she was thrown headfirst into furniture. Ariana Silver and Wilma Brown were charged with abuse of a child after video showed each of them …
Mar 01
Terrifying video shows officers opening fire on woman as she attacks former therapist with a knife
Orange County District Attorney’s Office/Fullerton Police Department(FULLERTON, Calif.) — Newly released police body-camera footage from Fullerton, California, has captured the three minutes of sheer terror a panicked mental-health therapist experienced as she was being attacked with a knife by a former patient. On Thursday, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced that the officers who’d …
Mar 01
Investigators find cockpit voice recorder from Amazon cargo jet crash
KGrif/iStock(HOUSTON) — The cockpit voice recorder from the Amazon Prime cargo jet that crashed into the marsh of Trinity Bay in Anahuac, Texas, last weekend has been recovered and was being taken to Washington, D.C., for analysis, investigators announced on Friday. An official from the National Transportation Safety Board told ABC News the recorder, expected …
Mar 01
Arkansas boy gets police escort to children’s hospital
(ALEXANDER, Ark.) — A young boy from Arkansas battling a terminal illness received his last wish — to be escorted to the hospital on Thursday morning by a congregation of first responders from his Arkansas hometown. As Louie Schneider was being driven to Arkansas Children’s Hospital on Thursday, he was greeted by hundreds of law …
Mar 01
January-like weather covers much of the Heartland
On the Plains, snow showers accompany a new surge of bitterly cold air into Montana. Across roughly the northwestern half of the region, a substantial snow cover continues to insulate winter wheat. Meanwhile, warmth temporarily prevails on the southern High Plains, further reducing topsoil moisture. During the first 2 months of 2019, precipitation in Lubbock, …