Illinois State

December corn closed down 4½¢ at $4.06¼ a bushel. Despite ending the day lower, this was the contract's second consecutive higher close week-over-week, up 5¼¢ since last Friday's close. November soybeans closed down 18½¢ at $10.05 a bushel. For the week, the contract closed up...

Soybeans close down 18¢ | Friday, September 6, 2024

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Camilo Díaz

(MA) get ready to meet a pocket-sized Chihuahua who is ready to dive straight into your heart and home. Tooty is a 6-pound Chihuahua cutie who came into Last Hope K 9 rescue's care for unspecified reasons. She is currently living safely in a pack of pups with a foster family but is eager to find the family she can call her own. Could she be looking for YOU?

Tiny 6-Pound Chihuahua Is Searching For A Home

North Carolina State

According to USDA’s most recent Crop Progress and Condition report for North Carolina, the state’s corn harvested for grain fell further behind historical trends the week ending Sept. 1. Corn for grain harvest reached 18%, 7 percentage points behind a year ago when the state’s harvest for grain...

What’s different about this year’s corn harvest in North Carolina?

Iowa State

Gregory, SD

The XtremeAg farmers are navigating dry spells, evaluating soybean readiness, and preparing for wheat planting as the 2024 growing season continues. Lee Lubbers is a fourth-generation farmer in Gregory, South Dakota. Lubbers Farms includes more than 17,000 acres of dryland soybeans, corn, and wheat. Lubbers says he is always trying to learn and challenge himself.

Farmers begin corn harvest, reflect on summer’s end

Wisconsin State

Across the U.S., many corn farmers are in the process of harvesting the crop for silage. Here’s a look at progress in the nine states that harvested the most corn silage acres last year. Wisconsin. According to USDA’s annual Crop Production reports, Wisconsin farmers have long led the country...

From field to feed: Corn silage harvest progress in 9 top states

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Dianna Carney

Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, has recently introduced a tiny six-pound dog named Alistair who is looking for his forever home. At only one year old, this little boy is a sweet dog who is thought to be a Maltese, "but we can’t make any guarantees that he would be suitable for those with allergies," explains the nonprofit animal rescue.

Meet The Tiny 6lb Dog Looking For Love

Some 47.4 million Americans — roughly one of every seven — were food insecure during 2023, meaning they were unable at times to acquire enough food, said the Agriculture Department on Wednesday. It was a 40% increase in two years, and while the report did not suggest factors behind the rise, it coincided with the end of pandemic-era food assistance.

Number of food insecure Americans soars 40% in two years

Kentucky State

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Starting in late September, the federal government will relaunch its at-home COVID-19 test program that makes every U.S. household eligible for four free COVID-19 tests to be sent directly to their home.

Every household can get four free COVID-19 tests by mail, starting late September

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Missouri State

CJ Coombs

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), 1,467 children have been reported missing in the U.S. since January 1, 2024, a drop since the figure of 1,533 previously reported. That drop indicates 66 cases were resolved.

15 missing children in Missouri since June 2024: some cases resolved and more added

Washington, DC

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A woman says she overheard Texas Roadhouse corporate managers plotting to terminate an employee who is in the intensive care unit (ICU) by baiting her husband with a fake benefits package. The story has sparked outrage in a now-viral TikTok.

Woman catches Texas Roadhouse managers allegedly scheming to terminate an injured worker

Fremont County, IA

Four tracts totaling 295.61 acres, four miles east of the southwest Iowa community of Sidney, sold at public auction via the buyer’s choice method. Of the four tracts, Tract 3 stood out for selling for $16,250 per acre, or $185 per CSR2 point. A total of 79 of its 84.05 acres were tillable. Tracts 1 and 2 also were highly tillable, with 66.6 acres selling for $15,900 per acre and 72.6 acres selling for $14,100 per acre, respectively. Tract 4 comprised 72.36 acres, with 68.5 acres enrolled into CRP and expiring this year. It sold for $10,600 per acre.

Southwest Iowa farmland brings over $16,000 per acre

Aurora, CO

David Heitz

The City of Aurora’s plan for a homeless navigation campus focusing on “work first” is coming together. The City Council will vote during its study session Monday on a resolution sponsored by council member Dustin Zvonek that spells out how the campus will operate. “The City of Aurora wishes to pursue an alternative to the ‘Housing First’ approach, by setting requirements and expectations for housing to include participation in addiction recovery, mental health, and job training programs to better address homelessness,” the resolution states. “It is inhumane and economically unwise to allow individuals experiencing homelessness to remain on the streets, or simply offer unconditional housing, rather than providing them with the necessary support services that offer a structured path to self-sufficiency and housing.”

Aurora’s ‘work first’ homeless plan: Instilling responsibility

Kansas City, MO

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Could you and your family use an adorable companion that will bring you love and joy for years and years? These six cats are adoptable right now from local Kansas City shelters. Just click on the link provided with each to get in touch with their shelters.

Six wonderful cats to adopt this Labor Day weekend

Colorado State

Denver, CO

Saturday, Aug. 31 is Overdose Awareness Day. Unfortunately, we are all too aware of overdoses at Fusion Studios, the homeless hotel run by Colorado Coalition for the Homeless where I live.

Opinion: Denver homeless hotel diary: Overdoses common here

Jefferson County, KY

Louisville, KY

Federal, state and local public health officials have confirmed the first case of the Oropouche virus in Kentucky and Jefferson County in a person who had returned to Louisville after traveling to the Caribbean.

Health officials report first case of Oropouche virus, aka ‘Sloth Fever,’ confirmed in Kentucky

Georgia State

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Augusta, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Six defendants from the Augusta area have been sentenced to significant federal prison terms for their involvement in a methamphetamine trafficking operation. - James Andrew McPherson, 30, of Hephzibah, GA, the ringleader, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and to Distribute Methamphetamine. He will also serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.

Six Georgia Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Long Federal Terms in Major Meth Operation Bust

Salem, OH

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

Alameda Post

Refined by New York chemist Robert Chesebrough almost 150 years ago, petroleum jelly is still widely used today in topical applications. Even with the myths that abound online about it being carcinogenic, it has withstood the test of time.

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They're shaped like a potato and tend to bake in hot weather, biologists say. That's why you will find cheeky little pikas in Colorado's mountains. But climate change could cause these critters' numbers to dwindle, according to wildlife experts. Like polar bears, Pikas may predict warmer temperatures, scientists say.

Potato-shaped critter visible now may predict climate change in Colorado

The nine-day-turned-to-three-month test mission of Boeing’s troublesome Starliner module is finally over. Last night, the empty capsule landed safely in White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stayed onboard the International Space Station (ISS), though, after the agency decided the risk of...

Boeing's Starliner has finally landed. Not flawlessly, but it got the job done

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3 Big Things Today, September 6, 2024

Soybean futures were lower in overnight trading as light rain is expected in U.S. growing areas that have turned drier in recent weeks. Scattered rainfall is...

3 Big Things Today, September 6, 2024

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