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For 84 years, the Woods family lived on and worked a growing patchwork of farmland near Randalia in northeast Iowa. Tom Woods, who grew up in the area, steadily added acres to the operation as properties and funds became available, raising grain and cattle while also helping run a family wholesale business. Now that long…

Goessling and McDonald eventually met in person A St. Louis man who was adopted as a baby nearly 60 years ago has discovered that five-time Grammy Award winner Michael McDonald is his biological father. Michael Goessling always knew he had been adopted and said he had a “wonderful childhood” with the couple who raised him….

Indian Green Card holder goes to court against his detention. An Indian national with Green Card, Yogesh Chandaben Dabhi, filed a petition stating that he is a lawful permanent resident of the US, but he was detained when he was returning to India as “an alien”. The petition was filed in July, which prompted the…

The aircraft, carrying six people, was flying toward Boston when it disappeared from radar. Six people are missing after a Gulfstream G100 jet traveling from Bermuda to Boston lost contact with air traffic controllers early Saturday, triggering a Coast Guard search off the coast of Nantucket.The aircraft, carrying six people, was flying toward Boston when…

Photo: Payton’s Lemonade Stand/ Instagram What started with one little lemonade stand in Ohio has become a powerful source of comfort for children facing illness, homelessness, foster care and other hardships. In the summer of 2018, six-year-old Payton Obert raised $768 by selling lemonade and used every dollar to buy new toys for patients at…

A 650-acre ranch on the shores of Lake Palestine in East Texas, owned by the same family since 1940 and long associated with a pecan-growing business, is set to become Texas’ next state park after the property was acquired for more than $10 million. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation closed the purchase on October…

Over a lifetime of careful acquisitions, Philip Rietveld built a portfolio of nearly 1,500 acres of productive farmland across Illinois and Indiana. After his death in 2026, his family moved to sell the holdings through a two-day, two-state auction that drew bidders from seven states. The 23 tracts changed hands for a combined $22.46 million,…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A 625-acre cattle ranch in Collier County, Florida, is set to take a different path after county officials agreed to move forward with its acquisition rather than see the property move towards a large-lot residential development. According to Gulfshore Business, the county agreed to pursue the property for about $7.8 million following…

A North Carolina artist once walked into a Goodwill store looking for inexpensive material for her own artwork and walked out with what would turn out to be a valuable piece of American abstraction. Beth Feeback paid just $9.99 for a large painting in 2012, not because she admired the artwork, but because she wanted…

Beneath the surface of Torch Lake in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula lies the legacy of more than a century of copper mining, roughly 200 million tons of waste material. Now crews are removing contaminated sediment from the lake’s shoreline. The United States Environmental Protection Agency announced on June 15, 2026 that it had started a $12…