The Johnson family farm in Hazel Run Township in Yellow Medicine County received its Century Farm honor in 1999. Shannon Johnson recalls receiving the Century Farm certificate with Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura’s signature. “The signature is all but gone now. We can’t read it ...
(AP) — U.S. stocks closed lower Friday as a pullback in big AI-focused companies weighed on the market, capping a turbulent week on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 0.4%, but managed to post a 2.5% gain for the week. This marks the benchmark index's first winning week since October and its biggest weekly gain since August. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered from an early slide and eked out a 0.1% gain. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.9%, but also notched its first weekly gain in five weeks. The major indexes have been shaky this week as some of the biggest AI companies pushed ...
LAKE BENTON — A member of the Lake Benton Fire Department was charged with arson this week, in connection with a fire at a Lake Benton bar building in July. The Buffalo Ridge Drug and Violent Crime Task Force said agents arrested Jameson John Vermaat, 39, on Thursday, and brought him to the Lincoln County Jail. Charges of felony criminal property damage and second degree arson were filed against Vermaat Thursday in Lincoln County District court. Vermaat appeared in custody in Lincoln County court on Thursday, court records said. A future hearing date was set for Nov. 19. On July 21, ...
MARSHALL — A report is pending on a school bus stop arm violation at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of East Lyon Street and Kennedy Street, Marshall Police said. TRACY — A public disturbance was reported at 4:19 p.m. Wednesday on Morgan Street, Tracy Police said. No further information was available. MARSHALL — Harassment reported at 1:28 p.m. Wednesday on the 200 block of Rainbow Drive is under investigation, Marshall Police said. MINNEOTA — A hit and run incident was reported at 1:06 p.m. Tuesday on the 200 block of Jefferson Street, Minneota Police said. No ...
NEW YORK — Two Democratic senators are launching an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress about his reason for a 2019 trip to Samoa after The Associated Press and The Guardian published documents in August refuting his testimony. AP and Guardian reporting in August showed that while Kennedy repeatedly told senators who held the key to his confirmation last year that his visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had "nothing to do with vaccines," a letter he sent to the Samoan prime minister ahead of the trip showed otherwise. In the ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday, capping a spectacular downfall for a poster boy of the artificial intelligence boom whose exit following reports of extramarital affairs now thrusts the chipmaker into an uncertain future. After a dizzying series of headlines about Huang's infidelity and ties to an alleged Chinese spy, his departure sets off a scramble to find a permanent replacement to lead the multitrillion-dollar colossus that grew from obscurity to a perch between Apple and Microsoft at the top of the S&P index. The resignation sent shares of Nvidia plummeting 14% at the ...
