Steve Nedved

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Cole’s Swindell’s “Down Home Sessions V” has rules: “No workin’ during during drinkin’ hours”

ABC/Image Group LA If you can’t wait for the weekend, Cole Swindell has the perfect song for five o’clock on Friday. “No workin’ during drinkin’ hours, round here we ain’t got no boss,” he sings on the first track released from his fifth Down Home Sessions EP. You can stream or download “Drinkin’ Hours” now.    “I can’t believe I am …

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This One’s for the Girls: Jon Pardi answers George Strait’s “The Cowboy Rides Away”

Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi plans to put out a new track every month until his Heartache Medication album arrives on September 27. The first one, “Ain’t Always the Cowboy,” came out on Friday. While George Strait famously proclaimed, “This is where the cowboy rides away” in his #5 hit from 1985, Jon’s new song asserts that sometimes women don’t want …

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Six charged after massive cocaine seizure at Philadelphia port

RapidEye/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) — Six men have been charged in connection with one of the largest drug seizures in U.S. history this week at the port of Philadelphia, where nearly 17 tons of cocaine with a street value of more than $1 billion was confiscated. None of the men are U.S. citizens and all have been charged …

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Perdue is doing his job, Mr. Kind

“This seems to be a one-man operation in Bob Lighthizer,” a frustrated Rep. Ron Kind (D, WI) recently observed of the White House’s Hill juggernaut to educate/mollify Democrats as President Trump pushes for congressional approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by August. “Where’s the agriculture secretary for crying out loud?” He’s busy doing his job, …

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Narrower rows, more seeds recommended on late soybeans

A soybean specialist says there are management practices that might add yield to late-planted soybeans. Bill Wiebold at the University of Missouri tells Brownfield soybeans planted the third week in June have likely lost a quarter of their potential yield, depending on what happens in August. “Obviously it’s hard to predict that,” Wiebold told Brownfield …

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New pilot program aims to control feral swine populations

USDA agencies, private landowners and stakeholders have joined together to control and eradicate feral swine populations through a farm bill-based pilot program. Kevin Norton with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) says they have teamed up with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to offer $75 million in funding for the new Feral …

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Kane Brown does “One Thing Right” in his new track with Marshmello

ABC/Image Group LAKane Brown becomes the first country artist ever to collaborate with superstar electronic music producer and DJ Marshmello, with the pair’s track “One Thing Right,” which is new today. The “Good As You” hitmaker connected with the helmet-wearing DJ at last year’s American Music Awards, where they were both winners.  That led to Kane offering …

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Patients mourn dentist gunned down outside office as police search for his killer

Newport News Police Department(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) –A Virginia community is in mourning after a local dentist was mysteriously gunned down outside his practice. Newport News dentist William Trolenberg, 65, was found shot in a parking lot outside his office just after 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Newport News Police Department. Patients took to social …

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Indiana Jesuit school refuses to fire teacher in same-sex marriage over archdiocese’s order

Nilvarda/iStock(INDIANAPOLIS) — A religious school in Indiana broke with the archdiocese after refusing to fire a teacher who was in a same-sex marriage. Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School announced in a statement Thursday that they had a “sincere and significant disagreement” with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis over the issue. “Brebeuf Jesuit has respectfully declined the Archdiocese’s …

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Trisha Yearwood is “Every Girl” on new album coming August 30

Gwendolyn RecordsTrisha Yearwood’s first all-new country album in more than a decade will arrive August 30.  It’s called Every Girl, in a nod to its lead single. The two-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year revealed the news ahead of schedule on her socials. “My album cover was leaked early,” Trisha posted. “So I said to myself …

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