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The French woman documented as the world's oldest person at 122 may be a fraud, according to Russian researchers. A 2018 study suggests that the woman known as Jeanne Calment was actually Jeanne's daughter, Yvonne, who allegedly assumed her mother's identity after her death in 1934 in order to not have to pay the inheritance tax. When "Jeanne" died in 1997 at the supposed age of 122 and 164 days, she was actually thought to have been just 99, the researchers claim. Gerontologist Valery Novoselov, who initially called for the investigation into Jeanne's age, said he first became suspicious because...

Once again, the cries for gun control measures that wouldn’t have stopped the shooter are being heard. Yet once again, it was a good guy with a gun that in this case pursued the killer in a chase that resulted in death, preventing further deaths and saving lives. Once again, we hear cries that the good guy with the gun should be disarmed. If a good guy with a gun had been inside the First Baptist Church, the killer could have been blown away and we might not be having this conversation. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pointed out what...

“And let’s not forget that this is the commander in chief who finally led the mission that brought Osama bin Laden to justice.”

Jeanne Plakon, daughter of Florida State Rep Scott Plakon, performs "The Sun Will Come Out November" at Orange County Republican Executive Committee Lincoln Day Dinner. Sung to the tune from Annie "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow", this song brings hope to us that are tired of fighting off the radical Obama, Pelosi, Reid wing of the Democratic Party. On stage are Sarah & Piper Palin, Rich Crotty and Angie "mycongressmanisnuts.com" Langley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8huyaECnDo0. November!, November!, I love ya, November! You're only Eight months A-way!

Special Reports Storms of the Century: 1928 Palm Beach/Lake Okeechobee Hurricane 1919 Keys/Corpus Christi Hurricane 1926 Miami Hurricane 1928 Palm Beach/Lake Okeechobee Hurricane 1953 Flint/Worcester Tornadoes 1954 Hurricane Hazel 1955 Hurricane Diane Floods 1957 Hurricane Audrey 1960 Hurricane Donna 1962 Pacific Northwest Big Blow1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak1972 Rapid City Flash Flood 1976 Big Thompson Canyon Flash Flood 1977 Johnstown Flash Flood 1978 New England Blizzard 1985 OH/PA Tornado Outbreak 1989 Hurricane Hugo 1991 Halloween "Perfect" Storm 1996 Blizzard 1999 Hurricane Floyd Floods The 1928 Palm Beach/Lake Okeechobee Hurricane was the country's deadliest since the Galveston hurricane of 1900....

LAKE WALES -- On his way to the first presidential debate in Miami, President Bush will stop in storm-battered Lake Wales today. A White House spokesman said the president will arrive at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa this afternoon and travel by helicopter to Lake Wales. His exact schedule was not released, but reporters and photographers accompanying him were told to be at the base at 1 p.m. for the short flight to Polk County. The St. Petersburg Times said Bush will take a walking tour of orange groves. Polk County's citrus industry has been devastated by the series...

...But none of that impressed me the way Jeb Bush did. Not for standing tall and radiating calm in crisis - you expect a governor to do that - but for a gesture that most Floridians might gloss over or even resent. As he has done with this season's other hurricanes, whenever he had a press briefing at the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, Bush explained himself not only in English but in Spanish. Then, according to his spokesman, Jacob DiPietre, Bush did something many of us never saw. He repeated his message in interviews with Spanish language TV...

Tornado Rips Through Northern Delaware NEW CASTLE COUNTY- We are getting more of an idea of how much damage a tornado did to a Delaware airport. The twister ripped through the New Castle County airport just after 4 this afternoon. The Delaware Air National Guard says 5 of its giant C-130 cargo planes were damaged. One was actually tipped over on its wing. DENREC reports 15 thousand gallons of aviation fuel spilled out. The airport terminal was also damaged. Despite all that, there are no reports of major injuries.

The Liberal government has snubbed a Canadian Forces offer to deploy a special emergency relief team to help Haitians devastated by tropical storms. Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew said Canada will be "generous" in its response to Haiti's needs, but so far the feds have limited aid to $2 million. Canadian Navy Lieut. Luc Charron said the military has offered up its Kingston-based Disaster Assistance Relief Team (DART), which specializes in entering disaster zones to meet basic needs such as water, medical treatment and security. Charron said the team of 200-plus soldiers is on 48-hour standby, waiting on the Liberal...

9am: FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...AND SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD WATCHES CONTINUE FOR PORTIONS OF GEORGIA...SOUTH CAROLINA...NORTH CAROLINA...VIRGINIA...MARYLAND...DELMARVA PENNINSULA...WEST VIRGINIA...PENNSYLVANIA...AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK. Mecklenburg County flooding Mobile Home in Alcolu, S.C Rainfall amounts as of 2:00 am. NORTH CAROLINA... MONROE 2.67 WINSTON-SALEM 2.46 GREENSBORO 2.35 ASHEVILLE 2.04 CHARLOTTE 1.94 GASTONIA 1.80 HICKORY 1.78 BEAUFORT 1.52 HATTERAS 1.33

Haiti Flood Deaths Climb; Food Supplies Tight 6 minutes ago By Joseph Guyler Delva GONAIVES, Haiti (Reuters) - More than a week after devastating floods hit northern Haiti the death count rose sharply as reports came in from remote areas on Monday and aid workers struggled to feed thousands of desperate people. The estimated toll from the floods triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne climbed to about 2,400 after a parish priest reported "a total disaster" in small towns in Poteau, a region outside Gonaives. In Gonaives, young men grabbed food from an aid convoy and others robbed women for bags...

President Bush has declared a state of major disaster in the storm-ravaged southern U.S. state of Florida, hit by four strong hurricanes since last month. "Major disaster" status makes Florida eligible for federal emergency funds and relief assistance for residents and businesses. Mr. Bush acted late Sunday after Hurricane Jeanne swept over Florida's central Atlantic coast, lashing the same area raked by another hurricane (Frances) three weeks earlier. Hurricane Jeanne's winds and torrential rains killed six people in the United States and added to an already heavy toll of property damage. But the storm's worst effects were felt in Haiti,...

Jeanne Winds Blow Man Through Plate-Glass Window POSTED: 10:37 am EDT September 26, 2004 UPDATED: 8:43 pm EDT September 26, 2004 A man in Orange County, Fla., was injured Sunday when winds from Hurricane Jeanne lifted him off the ground and blew him through a plate-glass window, according to Local 6 News. CLICK HERE for more images from Hurricane Jeanne. Local 6 News videotaped the rescue moments after the man was tossed through the window of the Ambassador Lodge Hotel on Orange Blossom Trail. The victim was severely cut on both arms and was transported to a local hospital. There...

MIAMI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Florida's biggest electricity company, Florida Power & Light Co., said on Sunday that this year's successive hurricanes almost certainly exhausted its $350 million storm fund but that it did not expect total repair costs to exceed that figure by much. FPL President Armando Olivera said the company, whose transmission lines have been battered and downed by hurricanes Charley, Frances and now Jeanne, might end up drawing on its credit lines but did not foresee any impact on third-quarter results or future investment plans due to repair costs. "At this point it's way too early to...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The third hurricane to hit NASA's spaceport in just over a month blew out more panels and left more gaping holes in the massive shuttle assembly building, but overall damage was not as severe as feared, a space agency official said Sunday. "Where there's obviously some more damage, it doesn't look appreciably worse than it did," said NASA spokesman George Diller, part of a 206-member team that spent the night barricaded inside the Kennedy Space Center. "We just had a prayer service with the base chaplain because we all felt so relieved that we came out...

Jeanne Tears Across Bahamas Toward Fla. Sep 25, 5:12 PM (ET) By JILL BARTON WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Hurricane Jeanne got stronger, bigger and faster as it battered the Bahamas and bore down on Florida Saturday, forcing hundreds of thousands more residents to hurriedly shutter their homes ahead of its anticipated devastating punch. About 2 million people were urged to evacuate from Florida City to the Georgia border as Jeanne strengthened to 115 mph from 105 mph earlier in the day. It was expected to come ashore late Saturday or early Sunday somewhere on the state's central Atlantic...

Here in Vero Beach. Don't look forward to this hurricane. I don't look forward to dealing more with State Farm. They have totally ripped us off from Frances. We had major, major damage.. all shingles, all tar paper; all ceiling down on the floor (save one room)along with blown in insulation. Major water damage. You can see all the tape seams on wall drywall.. can see where it is nailed. The adjuster says all the wallboard is still good in spite of this. He even tried to prove the drywall was still good by pushing on it. His hand went...

Thought a thread in Breaking News for the weekend covering Hurricane Jeanne would be a good thing. Post your link, pics, updates and freeper check-in's here

Hurricane Jeanne Advisory Number 47...Corrected Statement as of 5:00 am EDT on September 25, 2004 ...Corrected to add headline and storm tides along the Florida West Coast... ...Jeanne moving westward toward the abaco islands...expected to intensify into a category three hurricane... A Hurricane Warning is in effect along the Florida East Coast from Florida City northward to St. Augustine...including Lake Okeechobee. A Hurricane Warning is also in effect for the northwestern Bahamas...including the Abacos...Andros Island...Berry Islands...Bimini...Eleuthera...Grand Bahama Island...and New Providence. Preparations to protect life and property throughout the Hurricane Warning area should be rushed to completion. A Hurricane Watch remains...

Fears were growing for remote L'iles de la Tortue, which was was hit by a tsunami. Yolette Etienne, Oxfam's Haiti spokeswoman, said: "The situation is extremely serious. I don't know how much more we can take. It is difficult to assess the extent of the crisis, but many have died and others have had their homes and livelihoods destroyed.