A rare storm picked up winds of 100 mph and with force similar to a domestic hurricane Monday over the Midwest, blowing over trees, blowing cars, causing widespread damage to property and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as it passed through Chicago and in Indiana and Michigan moved. The …
Read More »Powerful derecho leaves paths of destruction across the Midwest
IOWA CITY, Iowa – A rare storm that grabbed 100 mph winds and struck like a domestic hurricane Monday across the Midwest, blowing over trees, overturning cars, causing widespread damage to property and leaving hundreds of thousands without power when it went through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan. The …
Read More »‘This is Unstoppable’: Midwestern America Prepares for Covid-19 Rise | World news
TThree months ago, the Republican governor of Missouri refused to wear a mask in a store because he said he would not let the government tell him what to do. Mike Parson visited a hardware store to revamp it after he lifted Missouri’s coronavirus lockdown over the objections of health …
Read More »Morning glories and mustard: America investigates unsolicited seed mystery
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The US Department of Agriculture has identified more than a dozen plant species ranging from morning glories to mustard in bags of unsolicited seeds that reach the mailboxes of thousands of Americans, mostly postmarked from China. Unsolicited seeds that arrived in the mail, reported by a U.S. …
Read More »There are no new deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, as cases exceed 42,000
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – State officials have reported no new deaths since Saturday morning, the first 24-hour reporting period without a new fatality from the disease caused by the new coronavirus in nearly three weeks. The Iowa Department of Public Health said that as of 10:30 a.m. Sunday, the …
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