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Response teams in Manatee County, Florida, are trying to prevent a “real catastrophic flood situation” in the Piney Point reservoir area, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday after taking an aerial tour of the area. The governor assured the public that the water being discharged to nearby Port Manatee, on the Gulf Coast, is not radioactive.

The Atlanta Braves altered their uniforms Saturday ahead of their game against the Philadelphia Phillies, with the All-Star Game patch the team sported on their jersey’s for opening day noticeably sewn over. The alteration came after Major League Baseball announced they were pulling the 2021 All-Star Game from Georgia — in response to the recently

As the backlash to Georgia’s restrictive voting law intensified last week with big corporations like Delta and Coca-Cola criticizing the law and Major League Baseball announcing it was moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, the politics of threats and counter threats became so fierce that it was difficult to determine whether the corporate moves

A North Carolina man who won $5,000 with a scratch-off lottery ticket said he was “extremely happy and surprised” to learn he’d won another $100,000 just two weeks later. Henry Harvey II, a store manager from Spring Lake, won the second prize after buying a $25 Extreme Cash ticket. He bought it from the same

Michigan reported 8,413 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the state’s total pandemic case count to 692,206, according to the state’s health department. Saturday’s daily case count is the highest the state has reported since December 7, when the reported case count was 9,350, state statistics show. Just eight weeks ago, state data showed the

Click here for updates on this story     HENDERSON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Henderson County beekeeper Jim Poe says he has just under 1 million bees in his backyard. “I like to say I’m bee evangelizing, telling people about bees,” Poe said. The Director of External Communications for the Henderson County Beekeepers’ Association says he is

A triple shooting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, left one person dead and two others injured Saturday night, police said. A caller reported gunfire in the 1600 block of Hiawatha Drive around 10 p.m., the Virginia Beach Police Department said. When officers arrived, they found three people were shot. One of the victims was pronounced dead

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — A suspect was arrested for threatening Park Rangers with an ax and shooting a paintball gun at another person in downtown Portland on Saturday, according to Portland Police Bureau. At 10:00 a.m., a person had walked into the Central Precinct and reported being shot

Vaccine eligibility in the US is expanding quickly, and so is the popularity of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s little white card. While plans to establish standardized vaccination proof are still being developed, many are holding to their Covid-19 vaccine cards as a potential form of social currency. And companies, like Staples and

Click here for updates on this story     NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn responded to Major League Baseball moving their All-Star game out of Georgia in a series of tweets. After Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a new voting bill into effect that made many changes to the state’s voting laws, Major League