Steve Nedved
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Jun 20
Sam Hunt’s planning a “House Party,” but is he making new music?
ABC/Mark Levine If you’re gonna throw a “House Party,” who better to book for the entertainment than Sam Hunt? That’s exactly what Bud Light has done, locking in the “House Party” hitmaker to play a live show in a real home September 19 in Calgary, Alberta. This will be the second edition of the Bud Light …
Jun 20
Move over, mom: Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty Tour is turning out to be a “Carnival Ride” for Isaiah Fisher
ABC/Mark Levine It’s quite possible that nobody’s having more fun on Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty Tour than her four-year-old son, Isaiah. He’s come a long way from the days when he’d never seen his mom perform, since she typically went on after his bedtime. Now, from time to time, you’ll spot him in the audience with his …
Jun 20
DC restaurants share their kitchens with refugee and asylum-seeker guest chefs
Janet Weinstein/ABC News(WASHINGTON) — At the trendy Washington, D.C. restaurant Maydan, executive chef Gerald Addison tends to kebabs sizzling over a huge fire pit, as Nejat Ahmadollah, a guest chef and an Afghan refugee, fans the flames. Both men look right at home. Over the course of six nights, and ending on Saturday night, Maydan …
Jun 20
$37,000 reward offered to catch killer of off-duty Wisconsin police officer
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(RACINE, Wisc.) — A reward to help catch the gunman who killed an off-duty Wisconsin police officer has climbed to $37,000 . Officer John Hetland, a 24-year veteran of the Racine Police Department, was at Teezers Tavern in Racine Monday night when he saw an armed robbery unfolding, police said. He tried to intervene and …
Jun 20
Cole Swindell institutes new “Drinkin’ Hours” this Friday
ABC/Image Group LA Drinkin’ Hours will officially kick off for Cole Swindell on Friday. That’s the title of the fifth EP in Cole’s popular Down Home Sessions series, but this time, he’s doing it a little bit differently. For Drinkin’ Hours: Down Home Sessions V, the Georgia native will put out a new song every month for the next five months. …
Jun 20
Maleah Davis, 4, to be laid to rest in colorful ‘My Little Pony’ casket
cmannphoto/iStock(HOUSTON) — Maleah Davis, a 4-year-old Houston girl whose remains were found weeks after she went missing, will be laid to rest in a colorful “My Little Pony” themed casket. Graphic designer Courtney Sublett said she worked with the little girl’s family to design the exterior of the casket, which highlights Maleah’s favorite “My Little …
Jun 20
Arkansas medical school student missing in Mexico after graduation, family says
KeithBinns/iStock(FORT SMITH, Ark.) — Authorities in Mexico are searching for an American medical school graduate who went missing over the weekend after one of his friends was found murdered. Arkansas native Jessy Pacheco, 30, went missing in the city of Guadalajara last week after he celebrated his graduation from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, his …
Jun 20
USDA allows cover crop harvest after September 1st
USDA’s Risk Management Agency will allow farmers more flexibility to use this year’s cover crops for forage. Director Martin Barbre says because of spring weather, flexibility for using cover crops on prevented planted acreage for haying, grazing, and cutting for silage, haylage, and baleage has become necessary. Barbre says there will likely be an unprecedented …
Jun 20
Paul Whelan, ex-Marine held as spy in Moscow, pleas for help from Trump
Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Paul Whelan, the former U.S. Marine held in Russia on espionage charges, on Thursday called on President Donald Trump to help free him, saying he is the victim of a “political kidnapping” by Russia’s security services. Whelan made the statement in Moscow’s City Court, where his lawyers were appealing the …
Jun 20
Trump says Iranian shootdown of US military drone may have been a ‘mistake’
U.S. Navy photo by Erik Hildebrandt(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the Iranian shootdown of an American drone may have not have been intentional, but a “mistake” by someone “stupid.” Trump spoke following a meeting with his top national security advisers after Iran, in what appeared to have been a major provocation, shot …
