Marathon negotiations prompt hope of breakthrough in Los Angeles teachers’ strike

David McNew/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — More than 30,000 teachers on strike in Los Angeles are hoping they’ll soon be back in the classroom as marathon negotiations continue behind closed doors over the holiday weekend to break a contract stalemate. “I hope they get this figured out soon. It’s exhausting,” Melissa Berlant, a striking sixth-grade English …

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Missouri Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Leadership Conference.

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Tom Steever will be on the ground at Osage Beach, Missouri on February 8 – 10, 2019 at the Missouri Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Leadership Conference. Continue reading Missouri Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Leadership Conference. at Brownfield Ag News.      

Missouri Soybean Association Legislative visits

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Tom Steever will be on the ground in Jefferson City for Missouri Soybean Association Legislative visits January 29th  at the State Capitol. Continue reading Missouri Soybean Association Legislative visits at Brownfield Ag News.      

Missouri Soybean Association Annual Meeting

Brownfield’s Tom Steever will cover the Missouri Soybean Association Annual Meeting on January 28th, 2019 in Jefferson City, MO. Continue reading Missouri Soybean Association Annual Meeting at Brownfield Ag News.      

Who is interpreter Marina Gross and will her notes of Trump’s Putin meeting be useful?

Chris McGrath/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Marina Gross, a State Department interpreter, was the only other American in the room during President Donald Trump’s one-on-one meeting with Russian President Putin in Helsinki last summer. ABC News has learned new details about the 64-year-old interpreter with the State Department’s Office of Language Services who is at the center …

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High school student told she was ‘too dark’ to perform with dance team, lawsuit claims

liangpv/iStock(NEW YORK) —  A young woman is suing a school district in Kansas for discrimination and retaliation, claiming she was told she couldn’t perform with the dance team because her skin was “too dark,” according to a lawsuit. Camille Sturdivant was one of two African-American members on the 14-person “Dazzlers” dance team at Blue Valley …

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Infant, 3 adults killed in ‘horrific’ domestic violence incident in Oregon: Officials

Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office(NEW YORK) — An infant and three adults were killed in a “horrific” incident at an Oregon home in which sheriff’s deputies shot and killed the suspect as he was about to take the life of another child, officials said Sunday. The eruption of domestic violence occurred Saturday night in the Portland …

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Duke of Edinburgh reportedly driving without a seat belt days after car accident

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — The Duke of Edinburgh and his driving are back in the British headlines again. Several Sunday papers have splashed photographs of the Queen’s 97 year old husband back behind the wheel of a brand-new Land Rover. The photos appeared just two days after he was part of a car crash involving …

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Family of American man held in Syria appeals to Trump to intervene

Kamalmaz family(DAMASCUS, Syria) — For almost two years, the family of an American man detained in Syria says it has operated quietly, working with the U.S. government and its allies to try to gain information about their husband and father. But now, in the hopes that President Donald Trump may be moved to personally intervene, …

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Major blast of cold air moves into Northeast after winter storm delivers snow, ice

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A powerful storm continues to move through the Northeast on Sunday, after it brought up to 15 inches of snow in the Midwest and three reported tornadoes in the South. The winter storm will dump snowfall totals of 10 to 20 inches in parts of the Northeast before moving out of …

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