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LANCASTER COUNTY, S.C. — A South Carolina woman has been arrested after investigators say she had more than $180,000 worth of cocaine delivered to her home. Agents with the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office said they got a tip about a package of cocaine being shipped to Kershaw area from outside the United States. The agents, along with the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division, the United States Postal Inspection Service and Homeland Security Investigations, said the package and intercepted and tested. A controlled delivery was made to Quanisha Lashay Manago, 28, on West Richland Street, agents said. They said Manago...

A magnitude 6.3 aftershock struck southern Turkey on Monday injuring eight people, according to an official, two weeks after a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in Turkey and Syria. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told a press conference Monday that eight people were injured following the aftershock, adding that a tsunami warning has been removed. “We have eight injured people brought to our hospitals,” he said as he asked the public “not to enter the damaged buildings, especially to take their belongings.” The quake struck Turkey’s southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency...

BRANSON, MO — A young local student was forced to defend his integrity after his science project — a homemade weather balloon designed to collect atmospheric data — was destroyed by a Sidewinder missile fired from a strafing F-22 fighter jet. "It wasn't my fault, I swear!" said Jared Gingles when questioned about his story. "I built the balloon, I tested it to make sure it worked, and when I was doing the final steps of the assignment, my homework was blown out of the sky by military aircraft." Though Jared had never been a problem student, his teacher found...

President Biden made what many saw as a bizarre boast of his administration by claiming that "more than half the women" in his administration "are women." Biden marked the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act Thursday with Vice President Kamala Harris as well as former President Bill Clinton at the White House. During the event, Biden praised the legislation for helping women in the workforce while also bragging about female representation on his own cabinet. "But here’s what matters, more than half women in my cabinet, more than half the people, more than half the women in...

Our one and only RV trip. Husband was stopped by the Mississippi River, so we watched soybeans grow for a month while searching the web for a lower bridge or a higher guardrail. The RV now sits as our house addition.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) hinted on Monday that he will make a decision on a 2024 presidential run after the state’s legislative session wraps up in May, giving the clearest timeline yet of when he could enter the race. Asked on “Fox & Friends” when he might decide on a White House bid, DeSantis mapped out the coming months, saying that he would embark on a tour to promote his new book, “The Courage to be Free,” and work through the Florida legislature’s regular session, which begins in early March. “We’re going to sell some books, we’re going to...

Catholics Denied Communion in Denver for Supporting Fired Lesbian Church WorkerTwo Catholics in Colorado have said they were denied Communion for wearing rainbow masks in support of a lesbian church worker recently fired in the Archdiocese of Denver.In January, Maggie Barton was terminated as a teacher at All Souls Catholic School over her same-gender relationship. Then, this month, to protest the discrimination, four Catholic women—Susan Doty, Sally Odenheimer, Jill Moore, and Cindy Grubenhoff—attended Mass at the parish with which the school is affiliated wearing rainbow masks and other Pride apparel. According to The Denver Post:“Susan Doty lined up Saturday to...

Best I can tell, this is the Asbury live cam. It gives me chills to hear and see this revival. Try it and see how to affects you.If I am not mistaken the last evening service was last night...which means the University president is going to try to close the chapel this afternoon.We'll see if he is successful.I would imagine his phone is ringing off the hook with calls asking him to stand down.

Tim Pool is hosting the entire 45 minute speech on his channel.

A letter mailed in 1916 arrived at its intended address in London more than 100 years later. Photo courtesy of the Norwood Society/Twitter Feb. 20 (UPI) -- A London man who received a letter addressed to a former resident of his home was shocked to discover it had been mailed more than a century earlier in 1916. Finlay Glen said the letter arrived a couple years ago at his address on Hamlet Road in south London, but it was addressed to an unfamiliar name and bore an extremely old stamp and postmark. "We noticed that the year on it was...

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The pandemic may be winding down, but the work-from-home revolution marches on. Nearly 30 percent of all work happened at home in January, six times the rate in 2019, according to WFH Research, a data-collection project. In Washington and other large urban centers, the share of remote work is closer to half. In the nation’s biggest cities, entire office buildings sit empty. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the American workplace. The share of all work performed at home rose from 4.7 percent in January 2019 to 61 percent in May 2020. Some economists consider the remote-work boom the greatest change to...

High-ranking Treasury Department officials met with and received emails on their personal accounts from members of a climate finance organization chaired by Democratic donor Michael Bloomberg, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Bloomberg — former mayor of New York, founder of financial data giant Bloomberg LP and major Democratic donor — is the current chair of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), an organization which lobbies for companies to disclose “risks related to climate change” in their financial statements. Representatives of this organization, many of whom are current or former Bloomberg LP employees, communicated...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)— Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is calling on the Biden administration to provide Ukraine with F-16 Fighter Jets as soon as possible. Sunday, Graham said that includes training Ukrainian pilots as soon as possible. Graham also urged the Biden administration to not be cautious or fearful of aggravating Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying: “Don’t worry about provoking Putin, worry about beating him.” ...

SEOUL, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- North Korea launched a pair of short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday morning, the South Korean military said, as Kim Jong Un's influential sister warned of turning the Pacific into a "firing range." Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said that it detected the launches from the Sukchon area of South Pyongan Province between 7 a.m. and 7:11 a.m. The missiles traveled around 242 miles and 211 miles, respectively, and landed in the sea between Korea and Japan. The launches "are serious provocations that undermine peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula as well...

As more wind farms are being planned and constructed across southern Wyoming, more people are raising concerns about the impact to wildlife, especially eagles. Mike Lockhart, a wildlife biologist specializing in eagles who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years, told Cowboy State Daily the impacts to eagle populations from Wyoming’s wind farms is being underreported and downplayed. The projects now in development include the Boswell Springs Wind Project, the Two Rivers Wind Project, the Rail Tie Project, and the Rock Creek I and Rock Creek II projects, and the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre...

"Pfizer has fought 'discovery' in its court battle with Brook Jackson every step of the way. If she is successful in her court hearing in March, this charade will come to an end"... Brook Jackson, the clinical trials superviser who blew the whistle on Pfizer over its testing of Covid vaccines, has announced that a court date has been assigned to her case. It will be held on March 1, 2023 at 2:00 pm at the Jack Brooks Federal Courthouse in Beaumont, Texas. The critical point: "All parties are required to attend in person." image "See you in court, criminals!"...

Special education teacher, Alicia Messing, testified before the Arizona Senate Education Committee in opposition to Arizona bill SB1700. The bill would give parents greater insight into materials used by their schools and a procedure for objecting to material they find objectionable, especially those that are found to be ‘lewd or sexual in nature, that promote gender fluidity or gender pronouns or that groom children into normalizing pedophilia’. Messing seemed quite confident that her master’s degree qualified her to make these decisions for parents. She went even further to explain her philosophy with the following quote: ‘The purpose of public education...

For the last four years at her Christian college, Gracie Turner had been keeping a secret. She had lost her faith. In high school, she watched cancer ravage her great-grandmother. Then she saw her family fall apart. One fight drove her to call the police on a relative. “I just remember thinking, why is this happening? How could this happen? And my first thought, or first person to blame was God,” Turner, a 21-year-old film major, told me. “I would lay in bed sometimes and just pray to God, like, it would be really nice if I didn’t wake up...

What she said is what many teachers think, and it’s a concept that needs to be destroyed to protect America's children. Before women’s lib, America’s teachers were often the best and brightest women in a college class because teaching was one of their few career options. Since women’s lib, the women who achieve academically usually choose majors other than teaching. Teachers today tend to fall into two categories: (1) A small number of men and women (usually conservative) with a real passion for education and (2) insecure, narcissistic people who struggle academically and look to a room full of helpless...