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Imagine being in a kayak while fishing when a 360-pound alligator starts swimming after you. It happened Monday to a kayaker off of Gordon Highway. Thankfully, a group of Richmond County sheriff's deputies helped wrangle the monster. On Monday night, it was the 10-feet long, 360 pound gator and Bo Storey in a pond together. “I was just going down the bank fishing and all of a sudden about 10 feet away I seen the big gator," Storey said.

Chris Christie may have won a battle against Marco Rubio in New Hampshire, but he ended up losing the war. Despite having rattled Rubio enough during the debate to reverse his Iowa momentum, Christie wound up trailing Rubio by three points and finishing well out of the delegate hunt. With his Granite State strategy in shreds and his inability to qualify for the next Republican debate, Christie went home to New Jersey last night instead of making his promised visit to South Carolina: Christie told supporters Tuesday evening that he is heading back to New Jersey Wednesday -- and...