Balloons & Tunes blasts off Friday

Owners Steve and Pam Wilson, along with their crew and sponsors team from Xcel Energy, set up their hot air balloon "The Empty Nest" at Roselawn Elementary Friday morning.

SNAP recipients to receive about half of benefits this month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, though benefits could take months to flow to recipients, the department said Monday in a brief to a federal court in Rhode Island.