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USDA Launches Trade Mitigation Programs
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has launched the trade mitigation package aimed at assisting farmers suffering from damage due to unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. Producers...
Jody Heemstra Sep 04, 2018
Twins' Offense Sputters Again In Loss At Houston
HOUSTON (AP) - Justin Verlander was totally fine leaving with a no-hitter intact after six innings against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night. "I like to go deep in games in the regular season,...
Aug 24, 2022
Former Vikings QB Kapp Dies At 85
(AP) - Joe Kapp, the hard-nosed quarterback who routinely ran into tacklers instead of away from them while leading the Minnesota Vikings to their first Super Bowl and California to its last Rose Bowl...
May 09, 2023
Musher Brent Sass wins his 1st Iditarod race across Alaska
UPDATE MARCH 15, 2022: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Musher Brent Sass won the arduous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska on Tuesday (March 15, 2022) as his team of 11 dogs dashed off the Bering Se...
Jody Heemstra Mar 15, 2022 lns1122 / CC
Aretha Franklin's sons battle over handwritten wills 5 years after her death
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Five years after music superstar Aretha Franklin's death, her final wishes are still unsettled. An unusual trial starts next Monday (July 10, 2023) in suburban Detroit where a ju...
Jody Heemstra Jul 10, 2023 Mel_DJ
US to control land sales to foreigners near 8 military bases-- including one in South Dakota-- under federal rule change being proposed
MAY 5, 2023: WASHINGTON (AP) - Under a proposed rule change, foreign citizens and companies would need U.S. government approval to buy property within 100 miles of eight military bases. The proposal f...
Jody Heemstra May 05, 2023
Man convicted of killing Kristin Smart gets 25 years to life
MARCH 11, 2023: MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) - The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus in 1996, has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. A judge in ...
Jody Heemstra Mar 11, 2023
Biden goes into 2024 with the economy getting stronger, but voters feel horrible about it
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden goes into next year's election with a vexing challenge: Just as the U.S. economy is getting stronger, people are still feeling horrible about it. Pollsters and ec...
Jody Heemstra Dec 11, 2023
Colorado man died from pet Gila monster's venomous bite, autopsy shows; Relinquished lizards taken to a South Dakota reptile sanctuary
MARCH 18, 2024: GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado man who was placed on life support after he was bitten by his pet Gila monster died of complications from the desert lizard's venom, an autopsy report o...
Jody Heemstra Mar 18, 2024 Jean Ogden Just Chaos Photography / CC
Finch: Minnesota A "Place I Really Want To Be"
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - When the Minnesota Timberwolves decided again to change coaches, president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas turned to one of the candidates he interviewed during the last sear...
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