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People attend a candlelight vigil for victims of a shooting at a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 in Kansas City, Mo. More than 20 people were injured and one woman killed in the shooting near the end of Wednesday’s rally held at nearby Union Station. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kansas City tries to recover after mass shooting at Super Bowl celebration

February 16, 2024 at 9:36 a.m.

As Kansas City, Missouri, tries to recover after the mass shooting that turned a Super Bowl celebration into chaos, police are working with juvenile prosecutors to determine what happens next...

Mega Millions lottery tickets and a wager slip are displayed, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

$1.1B Mega Millions prize also can be winner for retailers

January 9, 2023 at 7:01 p.m.

An estimated $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawing Tuesday night has people lined up at convenience stores nationwide to buy tickets in longshot hopes of winning a massive prize, but...

A sign on a convenience store advertises the Powerball lottery in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The jackpot climbed to $1.2 billion after no one matched all six numbers to win the jackpot. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Going to win $1.2B Powerball prize? Consider not taking cash.

November 2, 2022 at 9:47 p.m.

Winners of giant jackpots nearly always take the cash, and financial advisers say that might be a mistake.

Is this the night you win $830 million Mega Millions prize?

July 26, 2022 at 12:30 p.m.

The chances are steadily rising that someone will win the massive $830 million Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday night, but will it be you?

Greyhound racing nearing its end in the U.S. after long slide

May 2, 2022 at 9:04 a.m.

Vera Rasnake laughed as she led a trio of barking, jostling dogs into the Iowa Greyhound Park, but her smile faded when she acknowledged that after 41 years of being...

States scale back food stamp benefits even as prices soar

April 15, 2022 at 12:28 p.m.

Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries through the federal food stamp program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation...

This 2017 photo shows cage-free chickens ...

Why cage-free eggs becoming norm: It抖阴ap what people want

February 11, 2022 at 9:54 a.m.

Without much fuss and even less public attention, the nation’s egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift to cage-free eggs that is dramatically changing the lives of...

This 2018 photo shows Jeff Frank on his farm near Auburn, Iowa. Frank doesn’t feel rich, but simply based on the skyrocketing value of his land in northwest Iowa, it’s an apt way to describe him, even if he laughs at the idea. (Joseph L. Murphy/Iowa Soybean Association via AP)

Think your home value is soaring? Talk to a farmer

January 21, 2022 at 9:16 a.m.

Fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer Jeff Frank doesn’t feel rich, but simply based on the skyrocketing value of his land in northwest Iowa, it’s an apt way to describe him,...

Neb. Frustrated with persistently low ...

Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants

October 16, 2021 at 12:24 p.m.

Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at...

Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect

July 31, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

With little time left to build new facilities, inseminate sows and process the offspring by January, it抖阴ap hard to see how the pork industry can adequately supply California, which consumes...

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