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NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — Crews in Rhode Island had quite a mess to clean up after a tractor-trailer carrying 20 tons of squid was involved in a crash, spilling its load. The crash happened in Narragansett, Rhode Island, WFXT reported. Narragansett Police said the tractor-trailer had been “negotiating” a turn when the trailer dislodged from the cab and flipped on its side, ABC News reported. The squid covered parts of the road as crews had to clean up the slippery, and possibly worse, smelly mess on Aug. 16. “At the time of the incident, the fully loaded trailer was transporting squid...

The Montgomery City and County-funded Community Violence Intervention (CVI) program appears to have taken down its website and cleansed its social media page of photos after a second person connected to the program was arrested and charged with a drug-related crime. Patrick O'Neal Perry, 32, of Montgomery, was recently arrested by the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) with 19 pounds of marijuana and $30,000 in cash. 1819 News revealed that Perry has apparent ties to a City-funded Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Program, appearing frequently on the program's social media wearing shirts associated with the group Save our Streets -MGM Records...

Two Milwaukee rappers were found dead of gunshot wounds in a Milwaukee recording studio on Monday afternoon (Aug. 17). According to WISN in Milwaukee, the County Medical Examiner's Office reported that Dequaiseon D. Evans, 21 — a city resident known by his rap name Lil Sheisty — and Quentene E. Williams, 33 — a veteran of the city's hip-hop scene known as Funny $Money — were both shot at the scene by an as-yet-unidentified assailant.

Explanation: Whatdunit? What disappeared while crossing a partially eclipsed Sun? Let’s present the evidence. The 24 frames-per-second video was taken in Spain (40°34'30.3"N 1°12'28.8"W) at 20:28 local time on August 12, 2026. The Perseids meteor shower was at its peak during this time. Is this a meteor? Meteor showers trace back to a region of the sky called a radiant point that corresponds to where the Earth is crossing a comet’s path. The object’s path might trace back to the Perseids’ radiant point in the Perseus constellation. The object trails a smaller angle on the sky than the 0.5 degree...

Dashcam footage captured a harrowing multi-vehicle collision Tuesday morning in the southbound lanes of the 170 Freeway that launched one vehicle over the center divider. The incident, according to officials with the California Highway Patrol, occurred around 5:30 a.m. just south of the Oxnard Street exit. Details remain limited, and it is unclear exactly how the crash unfolded. However, dashcam footage appears to show a dark-colored pickup truck with its right turn signal activated suddenly swerving left into the carpool lane and striking a smaller sedan. The impact sent the sedan rolling over the freeway’s center divider, where it landed...

Another ugly example of America’s collapsing standards of public behavior reportedly unfolded aboard a cruise ship in Florida, where authorities say an allegedly intoxicated couple responded to a simple request for quiet by forcing their way into a family’s cabin and attacking everyone inside, including a 9-year-old child. Gannon Jacox, 29, and his girlfriend Brooklyn Hicks, 28, were arrested Saturday evening at Port Canaveral after the ship docked. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey laid out the outrageous details in a Facebook post that left little to the imagination. According to Ivey, Jacox and Hicks “were apparently arguing loudly after taking...

STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A Georgia man burglarized former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s home after learning Biffle and his family died in a plane crash, a North Carolina sheriff said Tuesday. Terrell Williams, 44, has been charged with second-degree burglary, safe cracking, money laundering and other felonies, Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell announced at a news conference. Williams was being held without bond in Cobb County, Georgia, on suspicion of another home burglary. Jail records did not list an attorney.

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has permanently closed its Northeast Heights abortion facility in Albuquerque. The closure comes just months after the center reopened and resumed killing babies in abortions. A closure notice posted at the site states: “THIS HEALTH CENTER IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED.” The notice directors customers to Planned Parenthood’s Eubank Health Center as of July 13. Abortion Free New Mexico reported on April 9 that the Northeast Heights facility had reopened and begun doing abortions again. The permanent shutdown follows another recent consolidation in the city. In July, Alamo Women’s Clinic closed its Montgomery Boulevard location and...

Mike Bramich (in camo hat), Dole Heffley, 122nd Legislative district, and Andrew Nierner on the right.By Dean Weingarten | Contributing writerOn Jan. 19, 2025, a black bear became too familiar with people in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, a community located about 20 miles northwest from Allentown.An armed Samaritan with a .45-caliber pistol, Mike Bramich, stopped the attack. It is unusual for people to see black bears out and about in January in Pennsylvania. Most of them are denned up, sleeping through the winter, but on this particular morning, visitors to the Jim Thorpe Market encountered a black bear intent on...

TALLAHASSEE, FL — After an election night in which the Sunshine State successfully tallied all its votes within hours of the polls closing, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis explained to California Governor Gavin Newsom that the secret to counting ballots in one night is not committing fraud. Sources revealed that Newsom called DeSantis late Tuesday night to express amazement at Florida's vote-counting efficiency, with DeSantis helpfully responding to his fellow governor that tallying ballots is much faster and simpler without the widespread implementation of election fraud schemes. "You'd be shocked at how easy it actually is without all the fraud," DeSantis...

Tiny East Texas Town of Under 1,000 Implodes Over Dirty Water Cover-Up, Retaliatory Arrests, Fired Judge, Mass Resignations, and 15 Years of “Bad Policing” The Henderson County District Attorney and County Attorney have informed the Trinidad, Texas Police Department that they will no longer accept ANY cases for prosecution solely investigated or filed by the department until further notice. The letter, obtained by local media, effectively neuters the Trinidad PD’s ability to bring meaningful criminal cases. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office will now handle crimes inside city limits. Pending cases will be reviewed one by one. The prosecutors themselves requested...

The owner of a local coffee shop ordered a group of pro-life advocates to leave after comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan. According to video of the encounter, Jim Sheehan, owner of Wydaho Roasters Coffee House, approached members of the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities as they sat with drinks they had purchased and began their first meeting to organize an “Abortion Free Teton Valley” effort. No one in the group wore political clothing or carried signs, aside from one person in a white hat with the initials “CK” for Charlie Kirk. Sheehan told the group he did not...

Islam is playing chess with the West; their opening is a masterclass in “divide and conquer.” We need to see it, and win the game. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) insist upon an immediate, head-on collision between America and the Third World. And the DSA is hoping that through sheer strength of numbers, the Third World will win. Until now, America has been playing against the Third World’s junior varsity team. At least Latin America is Catholic, so illegals from there aren’t trying to subvert the fundamental Judeo-Christian nature of America. But now, we’re playing against the Third World...

Shares of Merck (MRK) and Moderna (MRNA) spiked in the premarket on Wednesday after the companies said that their jointly developed messenger RNA-based cancer therapy, intismeran autogene, succeeded in a late-stage trial for patients with melanoma, a type of skin cancer. The Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial was designed to evaluate intismeran in combination with Merck's (MRK) blockbuster anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda in more than 1,100 patients with stage IIB-IV melanoma whose cancer has been completely resected. According to its topline data, INTerpath-001 met its primary endpoint of recurrence-free survival and a secondary endpoint of distant metastasis-free survival, marking the first late-stage...

State Rep. Angie Nixon upset Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman in Florida’s Democrat Senate primary on Tuesday night.Nixon, who ran to the left of the TDS-addled Vindman, defeated the fired National Security Council (NSC) aide by a 56-44 percent margin.Vindman has built his campaign around his obsessive hatred of President Donald Trump and anyone who supports him, repeatedly calling President Trump a “Russian asset” and calling the MAGA movement a “nihilistic cult bent on establishing dictatorship.”

Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be seen and appreciated after a long time out of view. The relic is now on display in Gallery 162 in the museum’s section devoted to Greek and Roman Art. In a round-up of Odyssey-related collection treasures on its website, the Met describes the relic as the first early Ptolemaic fragment of the text ever discovered and notes: “Dating from around 285–250...

David Krumholtz is “frustrated, fed up, fried” after more than 30 years in Hollywood. The “Oppenheimer” actor, 48, declared that he is taking an “indefinite break” from acting as he took issue with how actors are treated and fears that he could go “broke.” “I kinda sorta put my acting career on hold the other day. It’s been something I’ve been petrified to do for years,” Krumholtz wrote in a now-deleted post on Threads Monday. “Specifically, the fear was that I’d go broke and not be able to handle being out of the game.” SNIP “A huge wave of relief...

Any vessel moving cargo between two American ports must be built in an American shipyard, be American-owned and be three-quarters American-crewed. An American-built cargo ship costs $190 million to $250 million to build; the same vessel costs about $30 million from a foreign shipyard. It adds up, but not many people trace it to a statute they're mostly unaware of. One side is lobbying. The other is you, and you're busy. Fewer than 100 oceangoing ships qualify under the Jones Act today, and the American tanker fleet is so thin that moving oil from Texas to the Northeast costs about...

A bill to regulate car tires was passed by the California Legislature 20 years ago but never implemented. “The California Energy Commission dusted off a 20+ year old bill to pass new rules restricting tire sales in the state,” KCRA’s Ashley Zavala reported Monday. “The CEC has not regulated tires before. I asked Commissioner (former State Sen) Nancy Skinner if she pushed it & why this sat dormant until now.” Assembly Bill 844 “directs the California Energy Commission to adopt a Replacement Tire Efficiency Program to ensure replacement tires for passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold in California are at...

The Treasury Department on Wednesday said it will more than double the size of its government debt repurchases, sending yields sharply lower at a time of substantial market stress. With fixed income markets under pressure and yields surging to levels not seen in nearly 20 years, the announcement targets the sensitive longer-duration part of the Treasury market. Under the accelerated buyback, Treasury, led by Secretary Scott Bessent, will target the 10- to 20- year and 20- to 30-year portion of the market, which has seen a buyers’ strike since late June. The government will “at least double” the maximum size...