Before there was Lakeview Park in Sarasota, there was Sunshine Springs and Gardens, one of the area's most ambitious roadside attractions. From 1955 to 1959, visitors boarded graceful swan boats for …
The Florida Congressional District 16 Democratic primary features four well-matched candidates—Glenn Pearson, Jan Schneider, Jon Harris, and Kelly Kirschner—vying for the nomination to fill a …
The Florida Congressional District 16 Republican primary features three candidates—Eddie Speir, Sydney Gruters, and Ed Pope—vying for the nomination to fill a seat that is being vacated by …
Local Republicans will head to the polls on Aug. 18 to choose their party's nominee for Florida House District 71. Three Republicans have qualified …
Zachary Molnar, Deputy Chief of Operations/EMS Shift Commander with Manatee County EMS, has been arrested and charged with Lewd and Lascivious Conduct.
Two Idaho gubernatorial candidates – Democrat Terri Pickens and independent John Stegner – said they would champion a ballot initiative that would end Idaho’s abortion ban if voters approve it at the polls in November’s general election. A gubernatorial candidate from the Constitution Party who legally changed his name to Pro-Life said he would work […]
“You have hissed the mystery lecture. In fact, you’ve tasted the whole worm!” If you’ve never heard that sentence before, you’re probably wondering what on earth it means. It was supposedly delivered by the absent-minded Rev. William Archibald Spooner after a student missed his history lecture and wasted the whole term. These accidental mix-ups of sounds, known as […]
A new report suggests Iowa’s agricultural industry is in a multi-year downturn that might not let up for a few more years, and experts are advising farmers to look back to the practices that got them through tough financial times a decade ago to weather the current storm. The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, Iowa State […]
LAKELAND — Florida’s once thriving citrus industry has declined precipitously over the past two decades, but state agriculture officials believe the downward trajectory may have plateaued, and expressed enthusiasm Friday regarding a federal rule change they say will provide a much needed boost to the struggling sector. U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. […]
Advocates are urging Colorado officials to do everything in their legal power to investigate and resolve what they fear is a tuberculosis outbreak at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Aurora. A coalition including health care workers and leaders from statewide organizations — including the American Friends Services Committee, Casa de Paz, the […]
With a potential cut in property tax revenue looming for Florida’s counties, other costs are on the rise. The state’s top economists this week agreed that Florida’s 67 counties will be on the hook for nearly $420 million of what the state will spend on Medicaid this fiscal year. Miami Dade ($69,356,749,) Broward ($34,672,150), Hillsborough […]
After years of negligence allegations, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services revoked the license of the last active campus of Provo Canyon School, a Utah teen treatment institution made infamous by celebrity Paris Hilton saying she was abused while staying at one of its campuses as a teen. Now, the school’s Provo campus […]
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that public health officials have linked the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis in five states to shredded iceberg …
Red tide was observed at background concentrations in one sample from Florida’s East Coast. We continue to use satellite imagery (USF and NOAA NCCOS) to help track nearshore and offshore …
A new South Dakota law that criminalizes the advertising of abortion pills cannot be enforced while a lawsuit against it continues, a federal judge ruled Friday. Nancy Turbak Berry, who formerly served as a Democratic state legislator from Watertown, and New York-based nonprofit Mayday Health filed the lawsuit in May against Gov. Larry Rhoden and […]
The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has sanctioned a hospital pharmacy for failing to adequately monitor its supply of controlled substances. The board recently charged MercyOne Dubuque West’s pharmacy with failing to ensure controlled-substance accountability and with failing to verify that its actual, physical inventorу of drugs matched the expected inventory. According to the board, it […]
Chemours, formerly part of DuPont, has been manufacturing chemicals on the Cape Fear river near Fayetteville for decades.
LINCOLN — Federal officials have approved a temporary exemption from new Medicaid work requirements to Dawson County — home of the now-shuttered Tyson Foods plant that ended about 3,000 jobs. Gov. Jim Pillen last month announced that he directed the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services to seek the temporary hardship exemption for the […]
Families asked that leaders find a way to work together and reverse the cut.
A large majority of Coloradans reported that the cost of housing, healthcare and everyday expenses are serious challenges, according to a newly released survey from the Colorado Health Foundation. The organization’s seventh annual Pulse poll measured people’s attitudes on various concerns in the state. Respondents pointed to government, the cost of living and housing affordability […]