Alabama’s port city danced and squealed to the prime event of its Carnival season on Sunday, a quirky bash honoring the man credited with helping make the nation’s first Mardi Gras celebration what it is — a smaller, toned-down version of New Orleans’ mega-party. Joe Cain Day, named for a… Read More
Authorities find $3M worth of meth inside onion shipment
Authorities seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego, officials announced Friday. A K-9 unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted to the trailer’s shipment of onions on Sunday and officers found nearly… Read More
California’s bacon battle could raise the entire nation’s grocery bills
“On The Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes If the price of bacon is rising, it may not be inflation alone at work. It could be California’s fault instead! The Golden State passed a ballot initiative that would place strict conditions on how pigs for pork are raised – and the… Read More
Confirmed: Top Trump ally quits Senate four years early
Oklahoma’s U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, will step down from the Senate in January, triggering a special election for the seat he’s held for decades. Inhofe, 87, was elected to a fifth Senate term in 2020. In other words, his current, six-year… Read More
Serious winter weather to pound millions of Americans
A steady snow that started in the predawn hours Friday could bring up to a foot of accumulation in some areas of the U.S. Northeast by the time the storm ends late in the day, while other spots were contending with a sloppy mix of sleet and ice. The National… Read More
Mardi Gras carnival gives out rapid COVID tests
Mardi Gras revelers, accustomed to catching beads, small toys or other trinkets tossed by parade float riders during Carnival season, were able to snag a new parade favor Thursday: rapid COVID-19 tests. As Carnival season nears its raucous pre-Lenten climax on Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) next week, the handing out… Read More
Leaked: Biden’s Supreme Court nominee
During a Democratic debate, President Joe Biden Biden promised to pick a Black woman for the Supreme Court. Biden is currently much of his time on the bloody Russo-Ukraine War, even with an upcoming retirement from the court. However, he may have delivered on these judicial promises. Specifically, Biden has… Read More
West Coast bear turns out to be three bears
Hank the Tank is actually a three-bear battalion. DNA evidence now shows that the 500-pound black bear the public had nicknamed “Hank the Tank” is, in fact, at least three not-so-little bears who have damaged more than 30 properties around Lake Tahoe in recent months. How people achieved an average… Read More
Not this again! Bird flu detected in Midwestern U.S.
A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in Michigan in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds in Kalamazoo County, federal authorities said Thursday. Samples from the flock were tested at Michigan State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and confirmed by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service… Read More
CDC expected to significantly ease mask guidelines Friday
The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter, meaning most Americans will no longer be advised to wear masks in indoor public settings. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday will announce… Read More
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