Steve Nedved
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Dec 17
UPS Store Twitter account gets heat for icy tweet on letters to Santa
alexey_ds/iStock(NEW YORK) — @TheUPSStore, the official Twitter account for retail locations of the shipping company, may have set some sort of bleak record for the most Grinch GIF (pronounced “jif”) replies after tweeting out what some users thought deserved a big lump of coal. “If your child addresses a letter to the North Pole, you …
Dec 17
Watch now: Kane Brown unveils new live performance of his latest single, “Good as You”
RCA NashvilleThe romantic “Good as You” will be Kane Brown’s second single from his #1 album, Experiment. You can check out a live performance video of “Good as You” on YouTube, as Kane becomes the first country artist ever featured on the Vevo X series. Meanwhile, the Georgia native’s triple platinum “Heaven” finishes 2018 as the overall #1 …
Dec 17
Woman sues the father of her missing toddler: ‘Tell me the truth about what really happened
DNY59/iStock(NEW YORK) — The mother of Ayla Reynolds, a Maine toddler who vanished in 2011, is filing a wrongful death suit against the little girl’s father in an effort to learn “the truth about what really happened to Ayla.” “Today marks seven years since Ayla was taken from me,” Ayla’s mother, Trista Reynolds, said at …
Dec 17
2018 Farm Bill changes help hemp producers
A Wisconsin Farm Bureau official says the farm bill package sent to President Trump opens the door for legal industrial hemp production without a state pilot program. Rob Richard says, “It’s a really exciting time for people who want to diversify and do something different in farming if they’re not making money doing something else.” Richard …
Dec 17
2019 Missouri Governor’s Ag Conference preview
The upcoming 2019 Governor’s Conference on Agriculture has been designed with farmers in mind. Missouri Agriculture director Chris Chinn and her staff toured the state last year, in lieu of a conference, to find out what Missouri farmers wanted, “The one thing that we heard, loud and clear, was that it was really hard for …
Dec 17
What’s healthy about cherries?
About five U.S. states produce both sour and sweet cherries and both are a good source of vitamin C. Cherries also have fiber. And, like other fruits, have antioxidants that can help prevent cancer and other diseases. Mollie Woods with the Cherry Industry that represents cherry growers in Michigan and Wisconsin says talks about the …
Dec 17
If you’re “Keeping Score,” Rascal Flatts is helping Blake Shelton on “The Voice,” while Dan + Shay are Team Kelly
ABC/Image Group LAPlenty of Blake Shelton’s friends from the country music world will be showing up for the two-night season fifteen finale of The Voice this week. They won’t all be pitching in to help Team Blake, however. Rascal Flatts will turn out to support Blake’s contestant Kirk Jay, who originally auditioned by singing their hit, “Bless the Broken Road.” …
Dec 17
Here We Come a-Caroling again: “CMA Country Christmas” re-airs Saturday on ABC
ABC/Mark LevineIf you missed this year’s CMA Country Christmas last Monday when it premiered on ABC, you’ll have another chance to catch it again this holiday season. The annual two-hour yuletide extravaganza, hosted for the second year in a row by Reba McEntire, will re-air on Saturday, December 22 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Old Dominion, Brad Paisley, Martina …
Dec 17
Ukraine moves towards separate church, as conflict with Russia leads to major schism
GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Ukraine has taken a major step towards creating its own independent Orthodox church, separating it from Russia’s and deepening what is one of the most important splits in Orthodox Christianity in centuries. Nearly 200 bishops, priests and other delegates gathered in Kiev’s gold-domed St. Sophia Cathedral Saturday for a council to …
Dec 17
Egypt discovers 4,400-year-old priest tomb in ‘exceptional’ condition
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images(CAIRO) — An Egyptian archeological mission in the south of Cairo unveiled a 4,400-year-old tomb maintained in an “exceptionally well-preserved condition,” according to a statement by the country’s Ministry of Antiquities. The tomb belonged to a Fifth Dynasty royal purification priest named Wahtye. The discovery was made at the Saqqara archeological site, home …