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Like alcohol, cannabis can impair drivers and it’s therefore illegal for them to use before getting behind the wheel. Don’t toke and drive. Should be easy enough to remember. But since weed’s legalization in our nation in 2018, more and more folks are getting high, deciding it’s a good idea to drive, and then winding up hurt. […]
Millie, a Jack Russell-Whippet mix, was rescued last week after being ushered to safety by a drone with a sausage attached to it, The Guardian reports. The incident in the town of Havant, Hampshire in England started when Millie slipped her lead and was later seen on the mudflats with a rapidly rising tide. When a coordinated effort […]
It seems Kodak Black has dodged another legal battle. As reported by Rolling Stone, Florida prosecutors have dismissed a trespassing charge against the 24-year-old rapper. The case stems from Kodak’s Jan. 1 arrest in his hometown of Pompano Beach, where he was visiting family for the holidays. The rapper was reportedly standing in a driveway next to his Lamborghini when officers […]
A California city has spent the last several years trying to solve its growing crow problem, using everything from reflectors on trees to letting a falcon on the loose. Though those tactics had some success, they weren’t enough to scare off the thousand-plus crows that’ve taken over Sunnyvale’s downtown area. So what does the city plan to do […]
Orlando’s top health official was suspended this month after he slammed his staff’s “pathetic” vaccination rate and urged them to get the jab. The New York Times reports the suspension stems from a Jan. 4 email in which Dr. Raul Pino—director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County—expressed concern over the number of staffers who had yet to be fully […]
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside recently discovered a rare species of worm that kills tarantulas, and naturally, named it after actor Jeff Daniels, Variety reports. The inspiration behind the “Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi” is Daniels’ character Dr. Ross Jennings in the 1990 film Arachnophobia about a town overrun by a new species of spiders. Even […]
A woman whose tongue was partially replaced by a piece of her thigh due to cancer is opening up about her journey, including via a number of increasingly popular TikTok clips. 42-year-old Cameron Weeks Newsom—as mentioned in a Newsflare-citing report from the New York Post this week—suffered from severe pain following a 2013 diagnosis of squamous […]
Have you noticed your grocery bill being higher than usual? You are not alone. According to Statistics Canada, the country’s annual pace of inflation rose in December to its highest rate since 1991. The consumer price index was up 4.8 percent in December from a year earlier, says the agency. Average wages were up 2.6 percent […]
The White House will distribute hundreds of millions of free N95 masks, marking the implementation of something that most certainly should have occurred much earlier in the (still ongoing) pandemic. “This is the largest deployment of personal protective equipment in U.S. history,” a White House official was quoted as saying in a report from Reuters […]
Criminal charges have been filed against three Pennsylvania cops in connection with the shooting death of eight-year-old Fanta Bility. A grand jury recommended the charges—which the Associated Press reported on Wednesday as including manslaughter and reckless endangerment—against Sharon Hill Police Department officers Brian Devaney, Sean Dolan, and Devon Smith (pictured below). Additionally, as revealed in a […]
