Animals have courtship down to a science. Millions of animal species have tried-and-true techniques for finding a mate. Their rituals and mating displays are diverse, ostentatious, and to humans, sometimes outright nonsensical… but their effectiveness cannot be denied. Without a doubt, animals know how to find a mate. It begsContinue Reading
Hold on tight as 25 of the most talented street racers compete in the ultimate head-to-head competition to claim the #1 spot in a new season of STREET OUTLAWS: AMERICA’S LIST. The racers are burning rubber on the black top roads in South Texas with new rules that allow racers toContinue Reading
Award-winning singer/songwriter Don McLean’s iconic anthem “American Pie” has inspired a new children’s book about a young boy’s journey to uncover his passion for music. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of one of the top songs of the twentieth century, ‘Don McLean’s American Pie: A Fable’weaves themes from the iconic song with experiences fromContinue Reading
The Florida Department of Health (Department) is the first state in the nation to issue guidance stating that healthy children from ages 5 to 17 may not benefit from receiving the currently available COVID-19 vaccine. The Department recommends that children with underlying conditions are the best candidates for the COVID-19Continue Reading
CareerSource Tampa Bay (CSTB) will be hosting an in-person hiring event for Amazon, which will be hiring to fill more than 100 job openings. The openings are located at Amazon’s new fulfillment center located in Temple Terrace and other locations in the Tampa area. The job fair will take placeContinue Reading
The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County issued a rabies alert for the area surrounding E. Bank Drive, Tampa. This is in response to a cat that tested positive for rabies on 3/7/2022. The cat was a black domestic short hair stray cat. One person was confirmed to haveContinue Reading
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry thwarted a significant smuggling attempt after discovering 52 reptiles, tied up in small bags and hidden in and under a man’s clothing as he tried to cross the border into the U.S. The incident occurred at aboutContinue Reading
Suspected terrorists killed three Christians in the Chibok area of northeastern Nigeria on February 25. The perpetrators are likely members of Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP). The attack occurred in the village of Kautikari, a predominantly Christian area. On the same evening, the building of the Church of theContinue Reading
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Miranda Delee Farleigh (25, Ocklawaha) has pleaded guilty to possessing stolen mail. Farleigh faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Farleigh had been indicted on February 1, 2022. According to courtContinue Reading
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, also known as “the Monkey Whisperer” (57, Parrish), today pleaded guilty to having violated the Endangered Species Act and Lacy Act in connection with a conspiracy to sell a protected primate to a celebrity client in California. Hammonds facesContinue Reading
The Taliban is cracking down on Afghans trying to leave the country as they continue to conduct their door-to-door security sweep. In what the extremist group is calling a “clearing operation,” militants are searching for weapons and people who are alleged of kidnapping and robbery but are likely looking forContinue Reading
The anti-abortion group Created Equal is conducting its annual spring Justice Ride tour. This week-long event was inspired by the Civil Rights Era’s Freedom Rides. We will be traveling to three colleges in Florida to show the gruesome reality of the injustice of abortion, and to make the case that allContinue Reading
Civil rights attorney and Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), Noreen Farrell, put out the following statement concerning the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: President Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court today is historic—and long overdue. In theContinue Reading
In the temporary restraining order granted in the U. S. District Court of Florida in Tampa this week, federal Judge Steven Merryday acknowledged the Department of Defense’s unlawful discriminatory actions by allowing medical exemptions while denying religious exemptions. Judge Merryday granted a temporary restraining order for two service members pending a hearingContinue Reading
The risk of stroke among older adults diagnosed with COVID-19 was highest within the first three days of diagnosis, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2022, a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health toContinue Reading
The Florida Senate Committee on Health Policy, chaired by Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R-Hialeah), today passed Senate Bill 146, Fetal and Infant Mortality Reduction, by Senator Kelli Stargel (R-Lakeland). Taking into account modern medical and scientific knowledge that confirms significant developmental milestones of an unborn child, the legislation prohibits abortionContinue Reading
The Department is notifying the public that avian influenza has been detected in Nova Scotia. On Friday, January 28, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed a Canada goose in the Grand Desert area of Halifax Regional Municipality tested positive. Avian influenza is a viral infection that can spread easily andContinue Reading
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic of Restasis (cyclosporine ophthalmic emulsion) 0.05% single-use vials (eye drops) to increase tear production in patients whose tear production is presumed to be suppressed due to ocular inflammation associated with keratoconjunctivitis sicca (commonly known as dry eye). Increased tearContinue Reading
President Donald J. Trump will be speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) which will be held in Orlando, FL from February 24-27. President Trump made the announcement via video and will be joined by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Fmr. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Countless members of congress, governors and mediaContinue Reading
43-year-old Lake City man, John Thomas Jackson was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for distributing visual depictions of child sexual abuse. The Court also ordered Jackson to serve a life term of supervised release, to register as a sex offender, and to forfeit the phone that he had usedContinue Reading
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a principal with the Hillsborough County School District on multiple charges after he sent sexually explicit texts to an undercover detective he assumed was a juvenile. From January 19 to January 27, 2022, undercover detectives were portraying themselves as a 15-year-old boy during a chat operation toContinue Reading
