Steve Nedved
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Jan 16
Heavy rain causing concerns in West, wintry threat to eastern US at end of week
ABC News(NEW YORK) — With 3 inches of rain already fallen in the San Francisco Bay Area, a new more powerful storm is approaching the West Coast. Numerous flood, wind and snow alerts have been issued from California to Colorado. The powerful storm is in the Pacific on Wednesday morning and getting closer to the …
Jan 16
Shutdown side hustles: Workers selling personal possessions, starting businesses
Bill Oxford/iStock(NEW YORK) — Four weeks into the partial government shutdown, unpaid federal workers and contractors have started selling personal property, creating small businesses and spending more time with old friends. Working for the Coast Guard was always Albert Waterford Jr.’s dream job. The disabled veteran enlisted for two decades and, after his retirement, went …
Jan 16
‘We’re all out of hamberders’: Burger King flame broils Donald Trump
ilbusca/iStock(NEW YORK) — Burger King, home of the Whopper, has joined a growing list of U.S. companies that have roasted President Donald Trump via social media. After Trump offered up a fast-food feast to Clemson University’s championship football team at the White House, the president bragged on Twitter about ordering more than 1,000 “hamberders” — …
Jan 16
Theresa May faces no-confidence vote after defeat on Brexit deal
Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Theresa May will face a no-confidence vote in her government Wednesday after suffering a historic defeat in Parliament over her flagship Brexit deal. The vote was tabled by the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, on Tuesday evening moments after Members of Parliament heavily voted down …
Jan 16
Boy, 16, dies after falling from balcony of Royal Caribbean cruise ship
fallbrook/iStock(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — A teenage boy died after falling from an eighth floor balcony of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in Haiti last week. The 16-year-old was trying to enter his room on Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas cruise ship through a nearby balcony last Friday when he slipped and fell to …
Jan 16
Old Dominion’s taking a piece of Little Big Town with them on the Make It Sweet Tour
ABC RadioWhen CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year Old Dominion hit the road this weekend on their Make It Sweet Tour, they’ll be taking with them a piece of the previous winners, Little Big Town. Backstage are wardrobe cases labeled Karen [Fairchild], Kimberly [Schlapman], and Jimi [Westbrook]. “Little Big Town donated them to us,” Matthew Ramsey explains. “They …
Jan 16
Extension, state looking to train for ag careers
Finding workers on the farm and in agribusiness has become more challenging, and some employers are looking at a different labor pool for solutions. Trisha Wagner with the University of Wisconsin Extension’s Farm Management Program says finding and keeping workers is tough. She tells Brownfield teaching things like milking parlor operations robotics, or getting mill …
Jan 16
Cold coming back & spring might be wet again
A meteorologist says the unusual winter weather patterns so far this winter are not likely to create spring problems. Greg Soulje says, “It happened to be marginally cold enough, and the right setup on the dynamics to get that record-setting snow in parts of Missouri while much of the upper Midwest has been basically free …
Jan 15
Rhiannon Branch
Rhiannon grew up in Iuka, Illinois and was an active member on the local, state and national levels in both 4-H and FFA. Beef cattle, poultry, public speaking and communications were a few of her projects. She graduated with an Associates of Arts degree from Kaskaskia College in 2017, where she was a member of …
Jan 15
Soil health important to large fast food chain
One of the world’s largest fast food chains considers soil health to be among its most important features of sustainability. “As a food company, we don’t have a product without soil and without the people who care for that soil.” Townsend Bailey, with McDonald’s tells Brownfield that sustainability, including healthy soil, is about doing the …