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PRINCETON COUNCIL APPROVES BUDGET

PRINCETON’S CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THEIR SOLID WASTE COLLECTOR FOR A NEW AGREEMENT AND APPROVED THEIR BUDGET DURING A SPECIAL MEETING ON MONDAY. RAPID REMOVAL WAS APPROVED FOR ANOTHER TERM AS THE SOLID WASTE CONTRACTOR FOR PRINCETON. THE...Read More

GALLATIN APPROVES BURNING REGULATIONS

GALLATIN’S BOARD OF ALDERMEN APPROVED THE BID FOR THE CONSTRUCTION WORK PLANNED FOR WILLOW STREET DURING THEIR MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT. HERZOG CONTRACTING COMPANY’S BID FOR JUST UNDER 127 THOUSAND DOLLARS WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF...Read More

NEW SUPERINTENDENT NAMED AT HUNDLEY WHALEY

THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE HUNDLEY-WHALEY RESEARCH CENTER IN ALBANY HAS BEEN NAMED. KING CITY NATIVE JENNIFER MILLER HAS WORKED AS A RESEARCH SPECIALIST AT HUNDLEY-WHALEY FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS AND WILL REPLACE BRUCE BURDICK WHO...Read More

MO SENATE TO BEGIN BUDGET WORK

THE MISSOURI SENATE COULD START THEIR BUDGET WORK THIS WEEK. ...Read More

GAS PRICES HIGHER THAT LAST YEAR

GAS PRICES, ON AVERAGE, WERE A NICKEL HIGHER OVER LAST WEEK. THE ON-HIGHWAY DIESEL PRICES WERE ABOUT 3 CENTS HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR. ...Read More

IA SAW TWO EXTREMES LAST WEEK BUT PLANTING HAS BEGUN

THE WEEK BEGAN WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND COUNTIES IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF IOWA RECEIVED SNOW AT MID-WEEK BEFORE TEMPERATURES WARMED TO NEAR NORMAL BY THE WEEK’S END. STATEWIDE THERE WERE 1.5 DAYS SUITABLE FOR FIELDWORK...Read More

Local and Regional Sports

TUESDAY BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

TUESDAY BASEBALL SCOREBOARD NORTH HARRISON 12 MILAN 4 SW LIVINGSTON 9 MERCER 8 NE NODAWAY 9 PLATTE VALLEY 4 LEBLOND 15 MID BUCHANAN 1 LATHROP 2 LAWSON 1 PLATTSBURG 10 EAST BUCHANAN 6...Read More

MOUNT AYR HOSTS RAIDER RELAYS

EARLHAM WON THE CLASS A BOYS DIVISION AT THE RAIDER RELAYS HOSTED BY MOUNT AYR ON TUESDAY. MOUNT AYR WON 2 EVENTS AND SCORED 80 POINTS FOR 2ND PLACE IN THE A BOYS DIVISION. CENTRAL DECATUR WON...Read More

WORTH COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLAIM BULLDOG RELAYS TEAM TITLES

THE WORTH COUNTY GIRLS WON 7 EVENTS AND SCORED 134 POINTS TO WIN THE BULLDOG RELAYS HELD AT STANBERRY ON TUESDAY. WORTH COUNTY SCORED 134 POINTS. STANBERRY FINISHED SECOND PLACE WITH 117 POINTS. PLATTE VALLEY FINISHED 3RD...Read More

GALLATIN CLAIMS GRC GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

AG News

CME dairy prices mixed Tuesday April 25, 2018
Dairy prices were mixed Tuesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Class Three April milk was unchanged at $14.52 a hundredweight. May was up $.04 at $15.13. June was up $.06 to 15.55. July was up $.06 to $15.99. The milk futures from August through next March ranged from one to nine cents higher. Grade AA […]
Ag economist says a corn rally possible April 24, 2018
A University of Illinois ag economist says there could be significantly lower corn production this year, “I do see corn setting up for a possible rally. There’s a very bullish outlook currently. Monitoring the weekly (USDA) planting progress reports is going to be important in the next few weeks.” Todd Hubbs says corn consumption continues to […]
Senate Dems ask Perdue for help with Farm Bill partisan divide April 24, 2018
Several Democrats on the Senate Ag Committee asked Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue to help calm the waters and the partisan divide over the House Ag Farm bill that was approved last week along party lines. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar shared her concern with Perdue at the committee hearing Tuesday on the ‘state of rural America.’ […]
Pruitt says hardship waivers are not subjectively granted April 24, 2018
The EPA administrator says so-called hardship waivers are not granted subjectively. Scott Pruitt says granting the controversial waivers for Renewable Volume Obligations is under statutory constraint. Speaking Tuesday at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Washington Watch, Pruitt said even if a refinery is part of a large company, waivers are considered plant by plant […]

MissouriNet News

Missourinet 5 p.m. Newscast 4-24-2018 April 24, 2018
Top stories: An interim committee will take a look at the funding issues within the Missouri Agriculture Department. Work on the traditionally-bipartisan Farm Bill in Congress has divided members along party lines, leading Missouri U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill to call for a bipartisan effort. A House committee wants to hear about $100,000 in cash delivered […]
Missouri Legislature is asked to recognize pornography as a public health risk April 24, 2018
A Columbia man says his pornography addiction led him to become suicidal in 1992. Art Dyer, a chaplain at the MU Health Center in Columbia, says he supports a proposed Missouri Senate resolution that would declare pornography as a public health crisis. “I had a secret addiction to pornography, which my wife did not know […]
Lawyer in Greitens felony invasion of privacy case subpoenaed over $100,000 cash payment April 24, 2018
The lawyer for the ex-husband of the woman at the center of a felony charge against Governor Eric Greitens has been subpoenaed by a special Missouri House committee. Attorney Al Watkins said yesterday he’d received $100,000 in the form of two $50,000 cash anonymous payments in early January. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Watkins as […]
Missouri state Senator calls out dark money for billboards targeting him April 24, 2018
State Senator Rob Schaaf contends recent billboards aimed at him were financed with dark money. The St. Joseph Republican notes three billboards, including one that read “Did you know? Rob Schaaf lived with a lobbyist?”, were paid for by a group – Darlington Road Corporation – in which an attorney is the only member. The […]

National News

Philippines Orders Deportation Of Australian Activist Nun April 25, 2018
Sis. Patricia Fox has been given 30 days to get out of the country after she apparently joined protest rallies against controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Federal Judge Upholds DACA, Calling White House Decision To Rescind It 'Capricious' April 25, 2018
The U.S. District Court judge put his decision on hold for 90 days to give the Department of Homeland Security time to provide a better explanation as to why the program is unlawful.
Watchdog Says Billions In Afghanistan Funding At Risk Of Misuse April 25, 2018
Funds in the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund are at risk because the World Bank is not adequately monitoring how they are used. The U.S. has contributed $3 billion to the fund.
First Trump State Dinner Brings Billionaires And Administration Officials April 25, 2018
A group of 120 — including Apple's Tim Cook, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and chef Guy Savoy — were invited to the grandest party in the nation's capital, honoring French President Emmanuel Macron.
Those Affected By Trump's Travel Ban Hope For End To 'Chaos' After Supreme Court Case April 25, 2018
"The executive order, at its heart, says Yemeni people are bad and they need to stay away. We say no! We are part of the fabric of the country," says a Yemeni-American whose mother was denied a visa.
U.K. Officials Apologize After Lives Of Caribbean Immigrants Thrown Into Disarray April 25, 2018
NPR's Ailsa speaks to Natalie Barnes and her mother Paulette Wilson about how their family was shocked in 2015 to receive word from the British Home Office that Paulette was no longer considered a citizen and risked deportation to Jamaica where she was born after not have visited there for 50 years.
Space-Hopping 'Avengers: Infinity War' Raises The Stakes To Infinity — And Beyond April 25, 2018
The Avengers try to keep a space-tyrant from bedazzling his space-glove and performing cosmic genocide. The film doubles down on character interactions both familiar (good) and unfamiliar (less good).
Suspect Arrested In Dallas Shooting Of 3, Including 2 Police Officers April 24, 2018
Police said the officers are in critical condition. The third person's condition has not been released. "Dallas is at the precipice looking into the hell of heartbreak," the city's mayor said.
In Closing, Cosby's Lawyers Call His Accuser A 'Pathological Liar' April 24, 2018
On Tuesday, defense attorneys told jurors Andrea Constand's story could not be trusted. Prosecutors argued Bill Cosby was a sexual predator who preyed on "young, aspiring, unsuspecting women."
Pruitt Proposes New Rule Defining What Science Can Be Used By EPA April 24, 2018
The EPA administrator wants to restrict the science used by the agency in its decision-making. Scientists are concerned it eliminates all good science in the process.

World News

Philippines Orders Deportation Of Australian Activist Nun
Sis. Patricia Fox has been given 30 days to get out of the country after she apparently joined protest rallies against controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Watchdog Says Billions In Afghanistan Funding At Risk Of Misuse
Funds in the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund are at risk because the World Bank is not adequately monitoring how they are used. The U.S. has contributed $3 billion to the fund.
Those Affected By Trump's Travel Ban Hope For End To 'Chaos' After Supreme Court Case
"The executive order, at its heart, says Yemeni people are bad and they need to stay away. We say no! We are part of the fabric of the country," says a Yemeni-American whose mother was denied a visa.
U.K. Officials Apologize After Lives Of Caribbean Immigrants Thrown Into Disarray
NPR's Ailsa speaks to Natalie Barnes and her mother Paulette Wilson about how their family was shocked in 2015 to receive word from the British Home Office that Paulette was no longer considered a citizen and risked deportation to Jamaica where she was born after not have visited there for 50 years.