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Month: August 2024

Tropical Storm Debby live updates: Debby makes 2nd landfall in South Carolina

Tropical Storm Debby live updates: Debby makes 2nd landfall in South Carolina

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Debby is slamming the Southeast with heavy rain after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday. At least six people have been killed in Florida and Georgia. Here’s how the news is developing: Debby makes 2nd landfall in South […]

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Wearing masks in public is now illegal in this New York county, with exceptions

Wearing masks in public is now illegal in this New York county, with exceptions

Getty Images – STOCK/MoMo Productions (NEW YORK) — Lawmakers in a suburban New York county approved a bill to ban masks in public spaces, saying concealing your identity is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a year of jail time and a $1,000 fine. Proponents of the Mask Transparency […]

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Romanian oligarch hired Hunter Biden to influence US policy, special counsel says

Romanian oligarch hired Hunter Biden to influence US policy, special counsel says

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — Prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss’ office are accusing Hunter Biden of accepting payments from a Romanian businessman who was attempting to “influence U.S. government agencies,” while his father Joe Biden was vice president. If true, the allegation would mark the closest prosecutors have […]

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Prep Sports Roundup: 8/7

Prep Sports Roundup: 8/7

Baseball 1A South TROPIC, Utah-Ricardo Navarro recorded a grand slam and the Bryce Valley Mustangs pounded Green River 11-0 in 1A South baseball play Wednesday. Antonio Moreno drove in two more runs in the win for Bryce Valley. Luke Andrus posted the win on the mound for the Mustangs. ORDERVILLE, […]

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Man Life Flighted After Fight In Junction

Man Life Flighted After Fight In Junction

On Aug. 4, Piute County Sheriff’s Office responded to a fight in Junction. According to a post on the Piute County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, “multiple people were involved in the fight and the fight was broken up by deputies. A 19-year-old male suffered serious injuries as a result from […]

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Georgia school chief says state will restore public funding for AP African American studies course

Georgia school chief says state will restore public funding for AP African American studies course

PixelsEffect/Getty Images Georgia Schools Superintendent Richard Woods announced on Wednesday that the state will restore public funding for Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies to be taught in public schools after seeking “guidance and clarity” from the state’s attorney general regarding whether state law permits its inclusion in the state-approved […]

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Man accused of poisoning child with eyedrops after allegedly killing wife same way

Man accused of poisoning child with eyedrops after allegedly killing wife same way

Gaston County Sheriff’s Office (GASTONIA, N.C.) — A North Carolina man accused of fatally poisoning his wife with eyedrops is now being accused of attempting to poison their 11-year-old daughter with the same substance, resulting in her hospitalization, according to court documents. Joshua Lee Hunsucker’s was booked on Tuesday and […]

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Multiple motorists rescued from flooded roadways in New Jersey and New York

Multiple motorists rescued from flooded roadways in New Jersey and New York

Gerald French/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Multiple motorists stranded on flooded roadways in New York and New Jersey had to be rescued from their submerged vehicles Tuesday night as some parts of the region got six inches of rain in about three hours, according to officials. The super-soaker storm brought […]

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NASA says Boeing’s Starliner astronauts may have to come home on different spacecraft

NASA says Boeing’s Starliner astronauts may have to come home on different spacecraft

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The two astronauts who went up to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing’s Starliner may have to come home on a different spacecraft, NASA officials said during a press conference Wednesday. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, who performed the first crewed […]

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Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

Tulsa Fire Department/Facebook (TULSA, Okla.) — A dog in Tulsa, Oklahoma, started a house fire after biting into a lithium ion battery, fire officials said. The Tulsa Fire Department recently released dramatic footage of the fire, which took place in May, showing the portable cellphone battery sparking and bursting into […]

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