The school was placed on an interior lockdown while the campus was searched.
A restroom fire caused an evacuation at Ocoee High School on Wednesday morning, according to officials with the Ocoee Fire Department and Orange County Public Schools. Fire officials responded to the school just after 9 a.m. after reports of a fire and evacuated outlying campus buildings in order to find the source of the smoke that had set off the fire alarm. Something was found burning in an upstairs restroom, officials said. It was put out. It remains unclear at this time what they found. The...
Carolina Forest High School has been evacuated due to a threatening phone call, according to Horry County Schools spokesperson Lisa Bourcier.All students and s
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced low-interest disaster loans for local businesses and residents in six Georgia counties affected by the recent severe weather.
BATON ROUGE - The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday a Baton Rouge police officer's trial against Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson may proceed, but justices wouldn't weigh in on what they thought of Mckesson's claim that he enjoyed First Amendment protection for his actions.Former BRPD officer Brad Ford was hit in the face with a piece of asphalt thrown by protesters in the days after the shooting of Alton Sterling. Ford says Mckesson is responsible because he summoned a crowd to Baton...
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GONZALES - In a step to address infrastructure issues in Ascension Parish, the parish government has finalized the sale of its sewer assets and maintenance of those assets to National Water Infrastructure. The sale of the assets was voted on in April 2021 and was later sanctioned in July of that same year. Phase 1 of the transfer to NWI's maintenance of the system will see 3.5 million gallons of sewer discharge to be removed from the parish's waterways per day. Officials say the...
An Antiques Roadshow guest was left 'astonished' after receiving a staggering valuation for his World War II 'fighting knife'. Expert Robert Tilney said it had 'totally made my day'.
This past weekend, April 20-21, High Water Festival took place at North Charleston’s Riverfront Park. Despite a hot first day and a rainy second, droves of people came to see acts like Hozier, Fleet Foxes and Noah Kahan — while many came specifically to support the local acts on the lineup, Shovels & Rope and […]
BATON ROUGE - Defense attorneys for Kentrell Gaulden, or NBA YoungBoy, are asking to delay the start of a July 15 trial.Gaulden is facing a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm tied to a music video shoot in Baton Rouge.A pre-trial hearing is scheduled to take June 25, but both dates would be delayed if Shelly Dick, chief judge for the U.S. Middle District Court of Louisiana, signs off on the delay. She has not signed it yet.Gaulden is currently in custody in Cache County, Utah...
SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center is reporting that they have rescued several pelicans over the past two days.
State troopers say Douglas DC-4 went down near Fairbanks on Tuesday, but