State-run disaster relief funds that funneled millions in charitable donations to tornado- and flood-stricken Kentucky can serve as models for quickly getting aid to storm victims, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday in response to an auditor’s review of the programs. The Democratic governor portrayed the findings as a vindication of …
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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota will vault past Illinois, Michigan and South Dakota this week to gain the highest minimum wage in the Midwestern region at $9 an hour. The dollar-per-hour bump taking effect Saturday for some 288,000 of Minnesota’s lowest-paid workers is the second of a three-stage increase adopted …
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FRESNO, Calif. – Floyd and Violet Hartwig died holding hands at the end of a marriage lasting 67 years. Their daughter, Donna Scharton, said Thursday that once the family sensed the couple was close to death, they pushed their two hospice beds together, gently joining their hands. Floyd went first, …
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Border Patrol agents in California discovered dozens of bundles filled with fentanyl pills worth millions of dollars hidden inside a vehicle after pulling over a driver on the interstate last week, authorities said Tuesday. Agents with the San Diego Sector stopped a 24-year-old woman who was driving a gray sedan …
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WARNING: This story contains graphic photos. A Colorado woman was gored by a mule deer buck outside her home and suffered a puncture wound to her leg, according to officials. The 67-year-old woman was outside the door of her home in the town of Silver Cliff when she was attacked …
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A Wisconsin father-daughter duo made an historic discovery during a fishing trip on Lake Michigan over the summer. Near Green Island off the coast of Wisconsin, Tim Wollak and his 5-year-old daughter Henley noticed an anomoly on their boat’s sonar. What they discovered was a long-forgotten ship that is believed …
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The family of Martha Nolan, an Irish bikini designer who was found dead aboard a yacht in Montauk, has met with Suffolk County homicide detectives, their attorney confirmed Wednesday. Arthur Aidala, representing the family, said they are in contact with the district attorney’s office and that the investigation remains active, …
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MONTAUK, N.Y. — A single line of newly released dispatch audio shows just how little distance New York authorities have covered in nearly two weeks since a luxury summer getaway turned into a mysterious tragedy when 33-year-old swimwear entrepreneur Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra was found dead aboard a docked yacht at the …
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A spokesman for Rudy Giuliani says the 81‑year‑old former New York City mayor was seriously injured in a car crash in New Hampshire on Saturday night. According to an official statement shared with Fox News Digital, Giuliani was flagged down by a woman fleeing a domestic-violence incident. He helped the …
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State police say thousands of minks were released from a central Pennsylvania fur farm by one or more people who cut holes in the fence surrounding the farm. Police in the Stonington barracks in Northumberland County said Monday that troopers were called to the Richard H. Stahl Sons Inc. farm …
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