If you purchased walnuts, hummus or dips in Missouri or Illinois between March and May 2014, you need to check some packaging.
Sherman Produce has announced an immediate recall of “Schnucks brand 10-ounce trays of walnuts” with the UPC code 00338390032 because the product could be contaminated with listeria. The USDA detected listeria in walnuts that were sampled at the production facility.
Consumers are used to throw them away immediately or seek a refund.
Hot Mama’s Foods has recalled almost 15,000 pounds of hummus and dip products because of Listeria. The items were sold at Target, Trader Joe’s and other retailers.
The listeria was discovered during a routine test by the Texas Department of Health. Customers are advised not to eat the recalled products and return them to the place of purchase for a refund. Customers can also call 1-877-550-0694 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
The Missouri legislature has passed a law that will require any woman who is seeking an abortion to wait 72 hours after they initially contact a clinic.
The measure triples the current waiting period in the state and makes Missouri the third state behind Utah and South Dakota to require 72 hours. The waiting period would be waived in the event of a medical emergency.
The bill passed the Missouri House 111-39 and sent it to the governor who has a pattern of allowing abortion restrictions to become law without signing the bills. Last year, Nixon ignored a bill that requires doctors to be in the room when the initial dose of drugs for medical abortion is injected.
Nixon told reporters that he would review the waiting period and make a decision in line with his other decisions regarding abortion legislation.
Pro-abortion advocates were furious at the passage of the law saying that it could be medically dangerous to make a woman wait two more days before ending the life of their child via abortion.
The Bible was seen all over the hallways at a Missouri school after a teacher told two students they weren’t allowed to even read their Bibles in the hallway.
Kiela English, 15, a freshman at Potosi High School, was reading the Bible with a friend and discussing a passage when a teacher confronted them and said they had to put the Bible away and stop pushing their religion on people. The two girls had not been speaking to anyone else about the Bible or its contents.
Kiela’s mother posted on Facebook about the incident and it developed into a call for students to bring their Bibles to school and carry them around as a form of protest showing their rights to have their Bibles in school.
Students say the protest was effective in that not only did they show their dedication to the Scriptures, they also did it in way that did not disrupt the school day or show disrespect to the administration.
Potosi Superintendent Randy Davis said an investigation is ongoing regarding the incident but that he had no problem with the girls bringing their Bibles.
“We have absolutely no problem with our students bringing their Bible,” Davis said. “We firmly believe in freedom of religion and students practicing their religion.”
The anti-Christian activist group American Humanist Association is suing allegedly on behalf of two students accusing teacher Gwen Pope and the Fayette Missouri R-III School District of violating the Constitution by allowing a Christian club to meet before the start of the school day.
The lawsuit says the teacher committed the crimes of praying for an injured student, organizing a project to feed hungry children and was cavorting with a Methodist.
Pope is no longer teaching at the school but was the sponsor of the Fellowship of Christian Students at Fayette High School. The group has gathered since 2010 to meet and pray before the start of the school day along with reading the Bible.
The anti-Christian group says the two unnamed students had faced “unwelcome encounters with the classroom prayer sessions.” Apparently the students could see their classmates inside the classroom as they walked past in the mornings.
The group also said the teacher having a Bible in her possession “violates the Establishment Clause as a student would reasonably perceive it as her promoting her religious views to her students.”
The school superintendent told Fox News that he cannot comment on the suit because they had not yet received a copy but that they will defend their students’ and teachers’ First Amendment rights.
At least six people are confirmed dead after a Sunday outbreak of tornadoes across the Midwest.
The town of Washington, Illinois was devastated by a massive tornado that tore an 1/8th mile wide track through the entire town. Mayor Gary Manier said that up to 500 homes have been damaged or destroyed and that some neighborhoods are completely destroyed.
“How people survived is beyond me,” Manier said.
The tornadic storms are considered unusual for mid-November. Damaging winds and tornadoes were reported in 12 states: Michigan, Iowa, Illnois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York.
The storms moved so fast at times that weather forecasters were warning people to see shelter even before they could see a change in the weather.
The storm threatened the Chicago area forcing the game between the NFL’s Chicago Bears and Baltimore Ravens to be delayed for two hours as teams and spectators huddled under the stadium.
Heavy rains have deluged southern Missouri, resulting in a number of emergency evacuations and at least two deaths.
The city of Waynesville was hit so hard that police barricaded the downtown area to prevent looting and injuries in flooded neighborhoods. It was also the scene of one confirmed and one suspected death. Continue reading →
West Alton, Missouri has over 40 homes under water after a Missouri River levee failed near where the Missouri meets the Mississippi River.
The levee failed around noon local time and officials rushed to evacuate hundreds of people. Residents helped officials leave the area. Continue reading →
Blizzard conditions again descended on the midsection of the country Monday, bringing hurricane-force winds to the Texas Panhandle, closing highways in Texas and Oklahoma and putting already snow-covered parts of Kansas on high alert as the day progressed. Continue reading →
A massive winter storm spanning 20 states could dump as much as 1½ feet of snow in some places Thursday and bring life to a standstill in parts of the central United States.
About 60 million people — 20% of the U.S. population — are under winter weather warnings, watches and advisories in the 750,000 square miles affected. Continue reading →
