Search
Sections

Weather Forecast

Close

nation

    June 5, 2017
    Darrell Duane Smith of Forest City, Iowa, in 2012 told Grafton, N.D., farmers they'd be "crazy" not to invest in his biofuels companies, saying he expected 70-cent-per gallon in subsidies for non-corn ethanol. On June 5, 2017, he has said he'll plead guilty to federal fraud charges in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mikkel Pates / Forum News Service
    Iowa biofuels promoter to plead guilty
    CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — An Iowa biofuels promoter and former stock broker plans to plead guilty to federal fraud charges, meaning he'll move...
    News/nationJune 5, 2017 - 7:41am
    April 21, 2017
    Commentator Ann Coulter speaks to the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 12, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
    Ann Coulter rejects Berkeley's bid to reschedule speech
    Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said on Thursday she could not speak at the University of California, Berkeley, on a new date chosen by...
    News/nationApril 21, 2017 - 7:48am
    April 15, 2017
    Kathy Hartley, local Indivisible Kandiyohi County leader, giving encouragement to marchers Saturday at a Tax March in Glenwood. Protestors called for President Trump to release his tax records. Submitted photo / Cindy Rice
    Marchers at U.S. rallies, including Glenwood, demand Trump release tax returns
    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of people marched through midtown Manhattan and dozens of U.S. cities, including Glenwood, Minnesota,...
    News/nationApril 15, 2017 - 6:20pm
    April 13, 2017
    Sheila Abdus-Salaam
    Police probe death of first U.S. Muslim woman judge as suicide
    A groundbreaking black jurist who became the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge was found dead in New York's Hudson River on Wednesday,...
    News/nationApril 13, 2017 - 3:52pm
    U.S. President Donald Trump smiles during a meeting with police and firefighters, who responded to the recent Interstate 85 fire and roadway collapse in Atlanta at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
    'This is a major pro-life victory': Trump signs resolution allowing U.S. states to block family planning funds
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a resolution that will allow U.S. states to restrict how federal funds for contraception...
    News/nationApril 13, 2017 - 2:30pm
    April 11, 2017
    One killed, 3 injured in explosion at U.S. Army plant in Missouri
    One person was killed and three were injured and taken to a local hospital on Tuesday following an explosion at a U.S. Army ammunition plant in Independence, Missouri, a spokeswoman for the Joint Munitions Command said. The Army said no further information was immediately available...
    News/nationApril 11, 2017 - 3:21pm
    Condom-clogged pipe provides police clue in cracking Texas brothel
    AUSTIN, Texas - Hundreds of condoms that clogged a city sewer pipe led police to raid a massage parlor in Texas and arrest two people for prostitution...
    News/nationApril 11, 2017 - 2:47pm
    April 10, 2017
    C.J. Chivers (C) embraces his wife and children during a ceremony for the announcement of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in The Times office in New York, U.S., April 10, 2017.
    Washington Post, NY Times win Pulitzers for work on Trump, Putin
    NEW YORK - The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday honored The Washington Post for hard-hitting reporting on Donald Trump's presidential campaign and The...
    News/nationApril 10, 2017 - 7:39pm
    FILE PHOTO: Alabama Governor Robert Bentley speaks during a news conference in Mobile, Alabama July 2, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman/File Photo
    Alabama governor, facing possible impeachment, to resign
    Impeachment proceedings against Alabama Governor Robert Bentley over a relationship with a former aide were scheduled to begin on Monday, one...
    News/nationApril 10, 2017 - 4:24pm
    March 16, 2017
    Rep. Peterson: Ag cuts in Trump budget harmful for rural communities
    Rep. Collin Peterson said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s proposed budget represents a lack of understanding of how agriculture works....
    News/nationMarch 16, 2017 - 2:16pm
    March 10, 2017
    Tribune file photo
    Low-pathogenic bird flu strikes Tennessee chickens
    CHICAGO — A commercial chicken flock in Tennessee has been culled after becoming infected with low-pathogenic bird flu, the state's Agriculture...
    News/nationMarch 10, 2017 - 6:42am
    March 7, 2017
    A Centers for Disease Control scientist measures the amount of H7N9 avian flu virus which was grown and harvested in an unnamed CDC laboratory in 2013. James Gathany/CDC/Handout via REUTERS
    U.S. reports low pathogenic bird flu outbreak in Barron County, Wisconsin
    PARIS - - The United States reported an outbreak of avian flu on a farm in Wisconsin, the second in the country in less than a week although...
    News/nationMarch 7, 2017 - 2:31pm
    March 6, 2017
    U.S. Border patrol agents stand at an open gate on the fence along the Mexico border to allow Luis Eduardo Hernandez-Bautista hug Ty'Jahnae Williams and his father Eduardo Hernandez (not in view), as part of Universal Children's Day at the Border Field State Park, California, U.S. on November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
    Parents fearing deportation pick guardians for U.S. kids
    News/nationMarch 6, 2017 - 7:35am
    March 5, 2017
    Erica Spackman/USDA/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS The Avian influenza virus is harvested from a chicken egg as part of a diagnostic process in this undated U.S. Department of Agriculture handout image.
    U.S. confirms avian influenza in Tennessee chicken flock
    News/nationMarch 5, 2017 - 6:39pm
    March 1, 2017
    U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.
    N.D. congressman: Women wearing ‘bad-looking white pantsuits’ during Trump speech have a ‘disease’
    In what he called an “obsession” with Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election, U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., has suggested women...
    News/nationMarch 1, 2017 - 6:43pm
    PageOlder »
    randomness