Not too far from where I live, in a small town in the middle of the Midwest, the National Churchill Museum celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year. One would expect to find a national-level...
Modern agriculture's large monoculture fields grow a lot of corn and soybeans, planted annually. The outputs from row crops can be measured both in dollars paid in the market and also in non-market...
“These teens were racially and religiously profiled by both the gunman and the McDonald’s,” Jaylani Hussein, with the Council on American Islamic Relations said Monday.
A plane Bush flew in 1943 is on display at the Wings of the North Air Museum in Eden Prairie. The plane is even autographed by the Navy veteran. "People can read about history and when they come to...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katherine MacGregor, who played petty, gossiping mother Harriet Oleson on TV’s “Little House on the Prairie,” has died, a representative said Wednesday. She was 93.
Actress Katherine MacGregor, best known to TV audiences for her role as town gossiper Harriet Oleson on the long-running family drama Little House on the Prairie, has died at the age of 93.
\r\n\r\n With a heavy heart, we are sad to announce that Katherine MacGregor, known for her role as Harriet Oleson on Little House on the Prairie died on Tuesday, November 13th in Woodland Hills,...
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Little House On The Prairie star Katherine 'Scottie' MacGregor has died age 93, sparking tributes from her co-stars. The actress died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home in...
Actress Katherine MacGregor, best known to TV audiences for her role as town gossiper Harriet Oleson on the long-running family drama Little House on the Prairie, has died at the age of 93.
A University of Oklahoma professor, Jizhong Zhou, and his team have completed a new study on the effects of climate warming on soil microbes in a long-term climate change experiment at a tallgrass...
"Understanding the responses and adaptations of biological communities to environmental changes, especially anthropogenic changes, is very challenging. Our study is the first to demonstrate that...
In a unanimous decision, the Association for Library Service to Children renamed a lifetime achievement award honoring Laura Ingalls Wilder for her contribution to children’s literature.
Native American communities actively managed North American prairies for centuries before Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, according to a new study led by Southern Methodist...
Popular children’s writer Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name has been scrubbed from an author award that once honored her. The Association for Library Service to Children voted on Saturday to rename the...
“It would be easy to take these books off the shelf, to say that they – like many books of their time – were steeped in white supremacy and racism and therefore they do not belong in our canon,”...
The company will also move its Texas division corporate offices to the Grand Prairie location. It's relocating operations starting in July from a smaller facility in Arlington to the Grand Prairie...
“Little House on the Prairie” producer Kent McCray died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 89. McCray was born on June 7, 1928, the second son of Thomas Chapman McCray — an executive...
Actress Melissa Gilbert prefers to leave nothing to the imagination when it comes to her feelings about U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos. On her way out of the NBC Studios in New York on...
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| 2/26/2018
| Associated Press;Dailymail.com Reporter
Garrison Keillor said several sexually suggestive emails exchanged with a former researcher on his A Prairie Home Companion radio show were 'romantic writing' that never led to a physical...
Who Wants War with Iran -- and Why? In Oklahoma City, words don't mean what they plainly mean. Asking government officials simple questions prompts Orwellian acrobatics.
A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal. In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders and closed-door hearings completely...
Melissa Gilbert, who starred on "Little House on the Prairie" from 1974 to 1983, said on SiriusXM's "Andy Cohen Live" that director Oliver Stone humiliated her during an audition for 1991 movie "The...
Melissa Gilbert is joining the #MeToo movement and opening up about allegedly being sexually harassed during an audition for Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “The Doors.
“(It’s a) really big day for us, big day for these guys and a big day for black-tailed prairie dogs in Arizona,” Licence said. “What I’m going to do is reach in, they’re going...
Excess nitrogen gives an advantage to early season plants in Midwestern prairies, leading to further changes in prairie ecosystems, according to a recently published study from an Iowa State...
A clean white plastic flume in an Iowa soybean field is testimony to a novel and possibly heretical idea: prairie plants, once plowed under by farmers growing corn and soybeans in the Midwest, yield...
Across the U.S., farmers have abandoned millions of acres of land due to economics and hindrances such as dropping water tables that make irrigation of crops impossible.
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| 3/29/2019
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The log cabin at the 'Little House on the Prairie' site near Independence, Kansas is getting its first, and much needed make-over since it was built back in 1977.
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| 6/12/2017
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The police chief of a town famous for being the location of the Little House on the Prairie television series has been arrested in an underage sex string. Police Chief of Walnut Grove, Minnesota,...
A prairie dog hunting in Montana has Donald Trump Jr. under fire from the Humane Society, The Associated Press reported. Trump went up to Montana to hunt the black-tailed prairie dog — an animal...
A new Haribo plant is coming to Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, as the German candy maker famous for gummy bears builds its first U.S. factory by 2020. The family-owned company has sites in 10...
Feeding peanut butter kibbles to millions of prairie dogs—by flinging the treats from four-wheelers and dropping them from drones—could be the next big thing to help a spunky little weasel that...
More than three decades have passed since TV series "Little House on the Prairie" went off the air, but the show seems to have maintained a large enough fan base that warrants a black market for...
March 10 (UPI) -- A pet prairie dog became a viral sensation for its carefree attitude after it was rescued from a house fire in Pennsylvania. Red Paw Emergency Relief Team shared photos of Vern the...
An iconic bird whose booming mating calls once reverberated across "the Prairie State" can survive in Illinois with the help of periodic human interventions, researchers report.
In this cute video a very sweet and tolerant Golden Retriever lets an active prairie dog climb all over him. He isn't quite as impressed with the prairie dog's efforts at grooming his foot though,...
Look out below! A prairie dog's adventure on top of a Golden Retriever ended very suddenly. Video - Rodent - Ground - Dog A video shows the curious pet rodent jumping off the ground and onto the dog.
HENDERSON, Louisiana (Reuters) – When Hope Rosinski’s father gave her a six-acre plot in Louisiana more than a decade ago, she was surprised to find oil and gas pipelines crisscrossing the property.
I love prairie dogs, and 2011 the University of Colorado got $850,000 to study the impact of climate change on Boulder Prairie Dogs. Never mind that the climate isn’t actually changing in...
This coyote looks like he/she was in a fight. A big chunk of fur missing. Prairie dogs always have at least one sentinel on watch for coyotes, foxes and birds of prey.
A Grand Prairie woman who was found guilty on two counts of illegal voting has been sentenced to eight years in prison along with a $5,000 fine on Thursday. Rosa Maria Ortega was arrested in 2015.
There’s nothing weirder than learning that one of your favorite stories didn’t really happen that way. For the thousands of devoted fans of the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls...
This post originally appeared on EW.com. The Little House on the Prairie novels, which were inspired by author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s pioneer childhood in the 1870s and 1880s, have sold more than 60...
The Kansas prairie seems like the very picture of beauty and simplicity, with undulating fields of corn and wheat stretching as far as the eye can see. But below ground, the soil bears witness to...
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| 7/17/2016
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The Little House on the Prairie's Miss Beadle has opened up about her wild lifestyle of drugs and alcoholism. Charlotte Stewart became a household name for her role as the permanently cheery...
She's a strikingly beautiful model but even Elsa Hosk has her bad habits. The 27-year-old Victoria's Secret Angel enjoyed a cheeky cigarette on Wednesday during a leisurely stroll around the Tribeca...
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| 6/2/2016
| Associated Press;Zoe Szathmary For Dailymail.com
Prairie Home Companion radio show host Garrison Keillor says he has suffered a brain seizure but that this week's show apparently will go on. The 73-year-old Keillor posted on Facebook on Thursday...