Tammy Webber, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Gianna Floyd, center, the daughter of George Floyd, is carried while walking with family members outside of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Monday, April 19, 2021, before the murder trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin advances to jury deliberations. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in Floyd case

by Amy Forliti Associated Press, Stephen Groves Associated Press, and Tammy Webber Associated PressApril 20, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a…

In this June 27, 2019 photo, Gene Walter, of Crescent, Iowa, drives his truck through a flooded road that sits between flooded fields in Crescent, Iowa. This year's record rainfall and devastating flooding are forcing tough decisions about the future of farming in in the face of climate change. Like many in the water-weary Midwest, Walter doesn't know if climate change was responsible for the second major flood in nine years. Or the increasingly frequent torrential rains that dump more water in an hour than he used to see in days. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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Flooded farmers face dilemma in warming world

by Tammy Webber Associated Press, and Josh Funk Associated PressDecember 11, 2019

Signs are left at a vigil on Yonge Street in Toronto, Tuesday, April 24, 2018, after multiple people were killed and others injured in Monday's deadly attack in which a van struck pedestrians on a Toronto sidewalk. (Galit Rodan/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Toronto van attack throws spotlight on ‘incels’

by Tammy Webber Associated Press, and Jennifer Peltz Associated PressApril 25, 2018

In this Feb. 22, 2018, photo, Dana Loesch, spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at National Harbor, Md. She is poised, photogenic and articulate _ the new public face of an organization that long has been associated with older white men. Yet Loesch is not softening the message of an organization that has morphed from a hunting and Second Amendment rights advocacy group into an active voice in the nation’s culture wars, with positions on everything from immigration to socialism. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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NRA spokeswoman becomes new face of gun rights movement

by Tammy Webber Associated PressFebruary 25, 2018

FILE- In this Jan. 22, 2018, file photo, Whitney Mergens speaks during the fifth day of victim impact statements against Larry Nassar in Ingham County Circuit Court. Mergens' parents and boyfriend stand at her side. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)

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Gymnasts’ parents say they’ll ‘never get rid of the guilt’

by David Eggert Associated Press, and Tammy Webber Associated PressJanuary 25, 2018

A snowy owl flies away after being released along the shore of Duxbury Beach in Duxbury, Mass.

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Snowy owls fitted with tracking devices by researchers

by Tammy Webber Associated PressDecember 21, 2017

Damaged part of USS Fitzgerald is seen at the U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo Sunday, June 18, 2017. Navy divers found a number of sailors' bodies Sunday aboard the stricken USS Fitzgerald that collided with a container ship Saturday in the busy sea off Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Mother: Son tried to save shipmates after collision

by Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press, and Tammy Webber Associated PressJune 18, 2017

Demonstrators hold signs at the during a Tax Day protest in Florence, Ala. Members of Indivisible NW Alabama gathered to voice their request that President Donald Trump release his tax returns. (Allison Carter/The TimesDaily via AP)

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Trump: ‘Who paid for’ rallies seeking release of tax returns?

by Tammy Webber Associated PressApril 16, 2017