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After a long battle, a senior graduating from South Sioux City High School will wear her regalia at graduation on Saturday.
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Nick Rohlman/The Cedar Rapids GazetteThe House passed a bill to allow the year-round sale of E15 – a priority in farm states – following infighting among Republicans. -
Claire Benjamin/University of IllinoisThe U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing moving the Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center and the National Soybean Germplasm Collection from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, where they've both been housed for decades. -
Derek Davis/River Valley Ag ExchangeThe cost of doing business in agriculture was already high before the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which spiked fertilizer and fuel prices. Now, making any money this season may require farmers to cut back on certain resources. -
Sheila Brummer/Harvest Public MediaThe news of ICE raids has quieted in recent months, but many immigrants are still living with uncertainty. Here is a look at the people and organizations who are working to assist immigrants in their communities throughout the Midwest and Great Plains.
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Health officials are working to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC of a virus strain with no known vaccine. -
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A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany's Baltic Sea coast, Danish authorities said Saturday. -
In Sri Lanka, the islanders revere elephants. But for farmers, there's rising tension that's leading to more fatal encounters — for both humans and hungry pachyderms. -
President Trump's troop withdrawal threat rattles residents of a small Bavarian town reliant on U.S. military personnel and their families for both income and friendships built over decades.
