RDO marks 60 years of potato growing in Minnesota

www.brainerddispatch.com— While potatoes are at center stage, cover crops, pollinator fields, tree plantings and sustainable efforts have been in the mix for decades at R.D. Offutt Farms near Park Rapids, Minnesota

The Guardian—South Africa marks 30 years since apartheid amid growing discontent. Polls predict ANC likely to lose parliamentary majority, due to high unemployment and wealth inequalitySouth Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the country’s multicoloured flag.Any sense of celebration on the momentous anniversary was however set against a growing discontent with the current government. Continue reading

Lake and McHenry County Scanner—5-year anniversary marked in murder, discovery of 5-year-old AJ Freund from Crystal Lake. The five-year anniversary was marked Wednesday in the discovery of AJ Freund, the 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy who was murdered by his parents and falsely reported missing before his body was found. JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr., the parents of AJ, reported the boy missing on April 18, 2019. Andrew Freund Sr. told dispatchers […]

WRIC—‘He didn’t deserve this’: Wednesday marks a year since 21-year-old was shot, killed in Petersburg. A year is how long a Central Virginia mother has been waiting for answers in her son’s unsolved homicide case.