Steve Nedved

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Strong growth in the biobased products industry

At the recent BIO World Congress in Des Moines, we received an update on the growth of the U.S. biobased products industry from Kate Lewis, deputy program manager for USDA’s BioPreferred Program. AUDIO: Kate Lewis Continue reading Strong growth in the biobased products industry at Brownfield Ag News.      

Bustos creates Congressional Crop Insurance Caucus

Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has formed a bipartisan caucus to educate Members of Congress on crop insurance programs. “We know the need for that because as I travel all around our congressional district and meet with our growers, they tell us how important this is. I know that we have a lot of our family …

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“Make a Little” one: Midland’s Mark Wystrach and his fiancee are expecting

ABC/Image Group LA Midland’s Mark Wystrach will soon be a daddy. His fiancée, Ty Haney, announced the news Friday on Instagram. “Baby on board or too many donuts?” she captioned a mirror selfie showing off her baby bump. “Lil cowgirl on the way,” she added. Mark and Ty got engaged in late May, after meeting on a blind date. …

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Outdoor Voices CEO Ty Haney announces she is pregnant

Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Entrepreneur Ty Haney, the founder and CEO of Outdoor Voices, is pregnant with a baby girl! Haney, 30, is expecting her first child with her fiance Mark Wystrach, and is due this November. “As a young female founder and CEO it’s so cool to show that you don’t have to …

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Neutrogena recalls light therapy masks for risk of eye damage

jfmdesign/iStock(NEW YORK) — Neutrogena has recalled its popular Light Therapy Acne Mask citing a “theoretical risk of eye injury” “For a small subset of the population with certain underlying eye conditions, as well as for users taking medications which could enhance ocular photosensitivity, there is a theoretical risk of eye injury,” the brand wrote in …

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Heat Advisory issued July 19 at 10:17AM MDT until July 19 at 7:00PM MDT by NWS

…HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING… * HEAT INDEX VALUES…Up to 105 due to temperatures in the mid 90s, and dewpoints in the mid 70s. * TIMING…This afternoon and early evening. * IMPACTS…The heat and humidity may cause heat stress during outdoor exertion or extended exposure.

Watch now: Maren Morris’s Highwomen start a fire with “Redesigning Women”

Low Country Sound/Elektra RecordsThe first taste of music from Maren Morris’s all-female supergroup The Highwomen arrived on Friday, along with a fiery music video and the promise of a full-length album coming in the fall. And as you might expect, Maren and her pals – hit songwriter Natalie Hemby and Americana Grammy-winners Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires — have something to say. “Redesigning women/Running …

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American citizen charged with allegedly joining ISIS: Authorities

Zolnierek/iStock(NEW YORK) — An American citizen who allegedly became an ISIS sniper and weapons instructor has been charged by federal authorities with helping the terrorist organization, prosecutors said Friday. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Kazakhstan, was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, according to criminal complaint …

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Palm Beach County launches investigation into its monitoring of Jeffrey Epstein on work release

Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — Palm Beach County launched an internal investigation into its sheriff’s deputies monitoring of Jeffrey Epstein, following allegations he had “improper sexual conduct” while on work release from jail. Epstein served a 13-month jail sentence in 2008 after he pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in …

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Police arrest suspect in decades-old cold case murder of 10-year-old girl after obtaining DNA sample

Rawf8/iStock(PAWTUCKET, R.I.) — It was just two days after her tenth birthday when Christine Cole disappeared on a chilly evening in Pawtucket, R.I. She left her home around sunset on Jan. 6, 1988, to buy some things for her mother and never made it back. Her lifeless body washed up on a beach some 15 …

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