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Primary Menu NEWS WEATHER SPORTS LIVIN’ UPSTATE YOUR CAROLINA COMMUNITY REPORT IT! ABOUT US CW62 Search WEATHER ALERTS Flood Advisory: Greenville, Spartanburg Gunshot fired at Mammoth Cave campsite following alleged Bigfoot sighting NEWS by: Josh Breslow Posted: Jul 31, 2019 / 11:20 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 31, 2019 / 11:20 PM EDT MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. (WKRN) — Federal officials are investigating an incident involving at least one gunshot fired over the weekend at Mammoth Cave National Park that was prompted by an alleged sighting of Bigfoot. A spokesperson for the national park said law enforcement rangers responded around 2...

A man was detained after fighting someone outside U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati during President Trump’s rally Thursday. Video obtained by the Cincinnati Enquirer showed a man getting out of his truck and swinging at another man over a dispute and immediately get separated and detained by multiple police officers. Scott Fantozzi witnessed the fight and recorded video of it, posting it to Facebook around 7 p.m. He said the fight appeared to break out after the two men argued about politics, he told the news outlet. It is not immediately clear from the video that was posted what led...

Authorities in Taiwan have said a still unidentified Chinese naval ship collided with the Taiwanese-flagged container ship Yutai Number One in the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, but details about exactly what transpired remain murky. The incident comes amid a spike in tensions between Taiwanese authorities and their counterparts in Beijing. On Aug. 1, 2019, the Taiwanese Coast Guard announced that the Yutai Number One and the Chinese warship had hit each other at approximately 8:00 PM local time the night before in an established shipping lane, causing damage to both vessels, but no reported injuries. The incident reportedly occurred approximately...

ROCHESTER, England, July 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The second-oldest cathedral in England has become a source of controversy for announcing it will soon host a decidedly unconventional secular feature within its historic walls: a mini-golf course. Founded in 604 AD, Rochester Cathedral is second in age among English churches only to Canterbury, and was consecrated by St. Augustine himself. Earlier this month, the cathedral’s current leadership announced it’s partnering with the Rochester Bridge Trust to temporarily install a “bridge-themed adventure golf course” in the Medieval Nave. Running through the month of August, the course is being billed as a free...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 180 faith leaders in Texas, including 18 Catholics, signed a statement sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice July 23 asking the agency to change its policy banning prison chaplains from execution chambers. “Clergy have the right to minister to those who have placed themselves in their care, up to and including the moment of death. The state cannot, and should not attempt to, regulate spiritual solace,” the faith leaders said. The signers representing several religious traditions, including Episcopalian, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Presbyterian, Reform Judaism, United Church of Christ, United Methodist and...

This is a monthly posting of Twitter follower growth for the past month for 2020 presidential candidates in which I reveal who - of the presidential candidates - attracted the most new followers in the month of JULY 2019! Last Month's Post Here We just had our second round of Democrat presidential debates but so far nobody has really distanced themselves from the pack to pose any kind of a serious thread to President Trump. If you remember four years ago in 2015, Donald Trump dominated the news cycle that summer and basically sucked all the air out of the...

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), the only African-American Republican in the House o of Representatives, announced Thursday night that he will not seek re-election in 2020.

US Ministerial denounces Beijing for suppressing religious freedom, but 'official' Chinese Catholic Church condemns US hype State-aligned Catholic bodies and other officially sanctioned religious organizations in China have criticized the United States for accusing the communist authorities of suppressing religious freedom. The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA) and the Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China (BCCCC) July 20 condemned the U.S. Department of State's second 'Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom’ as it "maliciously hyped” China's ethnic and religious policies. The Ministerial gathering held in Washington July 16-18 was promoted as the largest religious freedom event in the world,...

A young woman has died after paramedics responded to a call about a possible overdose at a home on the Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod. The call came in at about 2.32pm Thursday. Emergency crews arrived on the scene and found the patient was in cardiac arrest. The woman was transported to Cape Cod Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Barnstable police are now investigating and have declined to provide details. Hyannis News reported that the incident took place at 28 Marchant Avenue, a home belonging to Ethel Kennedy, the 91-year-old widow of late US Senator Robert F Kennedy. The...

‘Our preferential option for the poor pushes us to prioritize the most affected ‘poorest of the poor’ who cry to God for justice.’Catholic bishops are ringing alarm bells about the future of the country’s environment in a major pastoral letter condemning “the continuing destruction of our common home”. The statement was released July 16, 2019, by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, calling for “ecological conversion” amid “climate emergency”. The 9-page document is divided into eight sections, with the first half offering a reflection on the state of the environment, followed by concrete ecological actions. Following Laudato Si’, the...

FULL TITLE: Pro-Abortion Group Tells Staff to Not Use the Word “Abortion.” Calls Killing Babies “Women’s Freedom” Instead Abortion activists frequently twist words around to make the killing of defenseless unborn babies seem less horrible. This week, an internal email from the pro-abortion group NARAL provided some insight into the way they use euphemisms and cleverly-crafted rhetoric to manipulate the debate. Splinter News obtained the email from NARAL deputy field director Travis Ballie to field staff and volunteers. Dated Friday, Ballie’s email tells field staff and volunteers not to use certain words and phrases because they may not appeal to...

Hungaroring First Grand Prix1986 Number of Laps70 Circuit Length4.381km Race Distance306.63 km Lap Record1:19.071 Michael Schumacher (2004)

Add “feminine hygiene products” to the list of anti-PC obscenities, you backwards bigots, because men with lady parts may get offended. The girlishly-named Pink News is leading the charge against overly feminine labels with transgender YouTuber Jamie Raines at the mantle. In an interview published on July 25th, the pseudo-heroic Raines explained that periods are not exclusive to females, making the case against “female-orientated” sanitary products. “Not only women experience periods,” said Raines, a woman who became a man. “Trans guys can experience periods and non-binary people can as well.” An unenlightened, transphobic miscreant may immediately question how this is...

A New York City art gallery owner says he was viciously beaten in Manhattan by a large group of teens for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. Jahangir "John" Turan, 42, says it happened Tuesday evening on Canal Street. He was wearing the MAGA hat that he had purchased earlier in the day at Trump Tower. "I love President Trump. I think he's doing a great job," Turan said. He says the group of about 15 "kids" yelled "F*** Trump" and stomped on him. One of them smashed his head into a scaffold. Turan says he suffered a fracture...

Navy officials said Wednesday they are pulling achievement medals from prosecutors who argued the case against a decorated Navy SEAL who was acquitted in the death of a wounded Islamic State captive after President Donald Trump intervened. Trump tweeted earlier Wednesday that he had directed the secretary of the Navy and the chief of naval operations to "immediately withdraw and rescind" the Navy Achievement Medal from prosecutors who argued the case against Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who was acquitted by military jurors earlier this month."The Prosecutors who lost the case against SEAL Eddie Gallagher (who I released from solitary...

A woman cried as she pleaded with a masked sharia officer to stop whipping her in a public ceremony in Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Wednesday. The 22-year-old woman, who was being punished for having pre-marital sex, was among three people who were publicly whipped 100 times

Following a contentious debate among Democratic White House contenders Wednesday, a number of party leaders aren’t thrilled that some of the candidates focused on attacking former President Barack Obama’s legacy as a way to challenge Joe Biden. In one of the debate’s hottest exchanges, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey called out the former vice president ― the frontrunner in the Democratic nomination race ― for repeatedly using Obama’s name to shield himself from criticism directed his way on issues like criminal justice and immigration. “Mr. vice president, you can’t have it both ways,” Booker said, referring to Biden’s ―...

Robots, CNN wants you to know, are likely sold and created in the color white because humans are prejudiced against black people, thus the creators of this artificial intelligence infuse their personal racism into choosing the color of said robots."Have you ever noticed the popularity of white robots? The reason for these shades of technological white may be racism, according to new research," CNN tweeted.  Have you ever noticed the popularity of white robots? The reason for these shades of technological white may be racism, according to new research. https://t.co/PHJHO91VtA— CNN (@CNN) August 1, 2019 via CNN"Robots And Racism," a...

In the early hours of Thursday morning following the Democrat debate, a race-obsessed MSNBC panel complained racism wasn’t brought up enough during the debate. In a mind-boggling discussion, the analysts urged Democrats to call out white “privilege” while insisting that whites who voted for Trump were racist, and needed to vote against Trump because he’s a white supremacist.

The space rock — designated as a near-Earth object, because its orbit takes it within 30 million miles of our planet — is expected to come within about 4.55 million miles of us as it whizzes by at 10,400 mph. Anything that gets closer than 0.05 “astronomical units” — roughly 4.65 million miles — is considered “potentially hazardous.” The asteroid, dubbed 2006 QQ23, is 1,870 feet in diameter