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Actor in spinoff to TV western Yellowstone found dead in Kansas

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 6 April - 12:43

Cole Brings Plenty, 27, had gone missing amid domestic violence investigation

An actor who appeared in a spinoff of the popular television western Yellowstone was found dead after he went missing amid a domestic violence investigation in Kansas, authorities said on Friday.

The Johnson county sheriff’s office said in a statement that deputies found the body of 27-year-old Cole Brings Plenty in a wooded area. Crime scene investigators and the medical examiner were at the location, but no details were released about a cause of death.

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Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 26 March - 22:50

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Wild migratory birds likely spread a deadly strain of bird flu to dairy cows in Texas and Kansas, state and federal officials announced this week.

It is believed to be the first time the virus, a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), has been found in cows in the US. Last week, officials in Minnesota confirmed finding an HPAI case in a young goat , marking the first time the virus has been found in a domestic ruminant in the US.

According to the Associated Press , officials with the Texas Animal Health Commission confirmed the flu virus is the Type A H5N1 strain, which has been ravaging bird populations around the globe for several years . The explosive, ongoing spread of the virus has led to many spillover events into mammals, making epidemiologists anxious that the virus could adapt to spread widely in humans.

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‘Get out of my house!’: Kansas paper co-owner confronted police during raid, video shows

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 22 August, 2023 - 23:04

Joan Meyer, who died a day after raid, shouted at six officers who searched her home in incident that has drawn national scrutiny

Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny, at one point demanding: “Get out of my house!”

Video released by the newspaper shows Joan Meyer shouting at the six officers inside the Marion, Kansas, home she shared with her son, Marion County Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer. Standing with the aid of a walker and dressed in a long robe or gown and slippers, she seems visibly upset.