Are you among the folks who called Congress this week? 202-224-3121 is the number for the main switchboard.

Plains state drought is expanding. All of South Dakota, much of Nebraska is in it. 

An old horse jockey asked him in the coffee shop about the state of late planted corn. If there's a frost even as late as last week of September, some corn will be damaged.

A family wiped out in rural intersection crash south of Chicago. Only dad, who wasn't in car, survived. Every year at this time rural intersections provide danger.