Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantishas blasted President Biden and New York City for the decision to kick students out of their Brooklyn school yesterday in place of nearly 2,000 illegal immigrants, saying the move was indicative of putting American citizens last. DeSantis on Wednesday slammed the city’s …
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The rapper G Herbo could face just over a year in jail after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme that used stolen credit card information to pay for an opulent lifestyle including private jets and designer puppies. Under a deal with prosecutors reached last year, the 28-year-old Chicago …
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LONG BEACH, Calif. – Long Beach is the latest California coastal area to close down its beaches because of a surge of tar balls on its shoreline. The city’s Fire Department ordered the closure of about four miles of beaches shortly before 8 p.m. PDT Wednesday because of fears that …
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PICHER, Okla. – A businessman who refused to leave the Oklahoma ghost town of Picher has died. The Thomas Funeral Home confirmed Gary Linderman’s death. According to an obituary on its website, he died Saturday at age 60 after a sudden illness. Linderman ran the Ole Miner Pharmacy, the last …
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As the United Nations meets for the umpteenth time this week — this time in Cancun, Mexico — in its ongoing effort to confront climate change, there is a growing chorus from both sides of the global warming debate that the world body’s efforts have failed and that it is …
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BALTIMORE – Someone painted the words “Black Lives Matter” on a statue honoring Confederate soldiers in Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun (http://bsun.md/1JeArnA ) reports the words in yellow paint covered an etched message Monday on the statue that was erected by the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy in February 1903. Those …
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MURFREESBORO, Ark. – An 8.52 carat diamond has been found by a Colorado woman at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park at Murfreesboro. Park officials said Friday that the gem found by Bobbie Oskarson of Longmont, Colorado, is the fifth largest diamond found since the park was established in 1972. …
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SALT LAKE CITY – A death row inmate appealing his sentence of death by firing squad says the execution method Utah recently approved as a backup to lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. Ron Lafferty argues in new court documents that the firing squad will cause a lingering, unnecessarily …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville civil rights advocate, businessman and state commissioner Francis Guess has died. He was 69. Family friend Vincent Williams said Guess died at his home Thursday night. The cause of death was not yet known. Guess was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Commission on Civil …
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GOWANDA, N.Y. – Military officials say medals have been posthumously authorized for a soldier from western New York who died while a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Army officials notified Barbara Hutchinson of Gowanda last month that her cousin, Pvt. Carroll Heath, was entitled to nine decorations, …
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