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PRING HILL, Fla. - A Spring Hill man is accused of calling 911 to have the methamphetamine he recently purchased from a man he met at an area bar tested because he believed it was really bath salts. According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Eugene Colucci made the emergency call around 7 p.m. on Thursday. Deputies say Colucci told them that he is an experienced drug user who's used methamphetamine in the past and knew what it should feel like. When it didn’t produce the expected sensation, he decided to call authorities. Colucci then produced two small baggies,...

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — A woman is facing DUI charges after deputies found her with a car full of deodorant spray. The Martin County Sheriff's Office says 31-year-old Katherine Theodore huffed multiple cans of the deodorant before getting behind the wheel on Sunday. Deputies pulled her over on SE Federal Highway and Carroll Street and noticed a stack of empty Right Guard deodorant spray cans in her car. The sheriff's office said she also appeared impaired. and that a strong scent of the spray was in her car. According to the sheriff's office, Theodore initially said she sprayed the deodorant...

A couple of undercover videos released by Project Veritas featuring New York Times national security correspondent Matthew Rosenberg has caused quite a stir at that newspaper because Rosenberg had some very critical things to say about his colleagues, specifically what he considers to be their silly drama queen overreactions to the January 6 events at Capitol Hill.The conundrum of the Times is that even though Rosenberg's criticisms caused a lot of outrage among much of their staff, executive editor Dean Baquet urged the staff at a meeting of their Washington D.C. bureau on Thursday to keep calm and not allow...

Hailey Bieber said she was hospitalized for experiencing "stroke like symptoms" earlier this week. The model and wife of Justin Bieber explained the scary situation to her fans in an Instagram post to her stories on Saturday. "On Thursday morning, I was sitting at breakfast with my husband when I started having stroke like symptoms and was taken to the hospital," she wrote. "They found I had suffered a very small blood clot to my brain, which caused a small lack of oxygen, but my body had passed it on its own and I recovered completely within a few hours....

The $1.5 trillion omnibus bill has plenty of inflationary spending, and the honorable members of the legislature didn’t leave themselves out. As part of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill released Wednesday, the $5.9 billion fiscal 2022 Legislative Branch funding portion would substantially boost the office budgets of House members to pay staff more… This legislation would provide $774.4 million for the Members Representational Allowance, known as the MRA, which funds the House office budgets for lawmakers, including staffer salaries. This $134.4 million, or 21 percent, boost over the previous fiscal year marks the largest increase in the MRA appropriation...

At 2 a.m. local time on the second Sunday of March, clocks around the country will "spring forward" one hour to 3 a.m., marking the start of daylight saving time and the end of standard time. For decades, this shift has cost Americans a valuable hour of their weekend that they won't see again until clocks move back during the first Sunday of November. But an end to the tradition may be closer than ever before. According to USA Today, the federal government first enacted daylight saving to conserve coal during World War I in the spring of 1918. But...

Iraqi State TV, Sky News Arabia, and the Jerusalem Post are reporting explosions in Erbil, Iraq following apparent rocket fire into the city. The attack is reportedly near an under-construction U.S. consulate. The news is breaking on Twitter, and some of the details are still in flux, but most outlets report that Kurdish satellite channel k24 suffered a hit. Sky News Arabia reported that “the headquarters of the US embassy, ​​which is being built in the city of Erbil, northern Iraq, was targeted with five long-range missiles.

The Ukraine war is good news for Democrats because it distracts from their unpopular domestic issues, an article in Politico magazine argues. “Dems catch a break from the culture wars: War in Ukraine and the domestic economic fallout have given Democrats a chance to focus there instead of on other issues that dominated 2021,” read the headline on the lead story by David Siders and Elena Schneider in the Saturday morning layout at Politico’s website.

In the movie Bourne Identity, the big reveal near the end has the antagonist explaining to hero Jason Bourne that he was sent in to kill an inconvenient world leader. The reason he was sent in instead of just using SEAL Team Six or a CIA sniper was because they needed it to look like the leader was killed by his own men. They arranged to get super-human weapon Bourne on the leader’s yacht so that when he was killed, it would appear as if someone in his crew pulled the trigger. Doing this would keep the United States from...

Growing suspicion about the security of voting systems has kindled a back-to-the future moment among conservatives in some parts of the U.S. Republican lawmakers in at least six states have introduced legislation that would require all election ballots to be counted by hand instead of electronic tabulators. Similar proposals have been floated within some local governments, including about a dozen New Hampshire towns and Washoe County in the presidential battleground state of Nevada. The push for hand-counting ballots comes amid mistrust of elections among many Republicans who believe the false narrative that widespread fraud cost former President Donald Trump reelection...

Everyone everywhere knows that if PDJT were still in command that GLOBAL oil prices would probably be less than half what it is now. That means prices of everything EVERYTHING would be cheaper including just the cost of doing business. Trump would have moved on Putin IMMEDIATELY when troops moved to the Ukraine border and the whole world would just be a better place. God Bless and Protect President Donald J. Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris rallied Democrats at their winter meeting Saturday and said the big task of the midterms is to remind voters that the Biden-Harris administration largely delivered on their campaign promises. "Our task is to show people that, in many ways, they got what they ordered," Harris told the Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting. Fresh off of her trip from Europe to address the Russia-Ukraine war, Harris said Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine threatens democracies well beyond Ukraine.

When a lawyer (Raymond Burr) gets his client (Angela Lansbury) acquitted of murder, he later finds out that she was really guilty. He devises his own plan for justice

Live rally in South Caroline - Trump running late, but will speak shortly!

The New York Police Department crime report for 2021 has been released, and the findings are shocking regarding violent crime committed by minorities. An analysis of the numbers shows that 96.1 percent of homicide suspects arrested in New York City were either black, Hispanic or Asian. Additionally, 93.8 percent of robbery suspects were non-whites, 94.9 percent of rape suspects arrested were not white, and 97.8 percent of shooting suspects arrested in 2021 were non-whites.

In the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins at his hands, Alec Baldwin knows who is to blame: Halyna Hutchins.In jaw-dropping court documents filed on Friday morning, Baldwin says she’s the one that asked the gun be pointed at her; that the production was a smooth, well-oiled machine; that her widower, Matthew, has inexplicably gone from amenable to vengeful — and oh, how confusing and upsetting this is to Baldwin; and that hey, no matter what, Baldwin’s contract indemnifies him for any damages.That $1.75 million antique Vermont farmhouse that Baldwin and his wife just bought must be top of mind.That’s...

Tens of thousands of people protested across France Saturday to call for more attention to the climate crisis in the runup to presidential polls next month. The climate crisis took up only 1.5 percent of talking points in media coverage of the election campaign from February 28 to March 6, a recent survey by climate justice NGOs has found. Organisers said 80,000 protesters took part across the country, including 32,000 people in Paris. The interior ministry however said just around 40,000 demonstrated, of whom 11,000 in the capital. In the northern city of Lille, Lydie Lampin Bernand described the climate...

InformNapalm international intelligence community received a document through insider channels, which, according to our sources, was circulated through high-ranking closed channels on the eve of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. We publish this material for your information and review. At the moment, we do not have the resources to conduct an in-depth analysis of this document titled Plan of Action for the establishment of a control system over the economic and political processes in Ukraine. However, it could be useful for other journalists and analysts as part of the overall jigsaw puzzle of the failed Russian plans for Ukraine....

Thousands of Trump supporters have flocked to Florence, South Carolina for the 45th President's rally. Correspondent Christina Thompson reports - Via Newsmax's live rally coverage.

Multiple long-range ballistic missiles fired at US consulate in Erbil, Iraq, Sky News Arabia reports.