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January 13, 2024

North Carolina boy, 6, in 'excruciating pain' after overdosing on Delta-9 THC candy mistaken for Skittles

A North Carolina mom said her son was hospitalized after he unknowingly consumed 13 times an adult dosage of Delta-9 edibles he thought were freeze-dried Skittles.

January 13, 2024

DeSantis promises Florida will 'hunt down' fentanyl traffickers as bust seizes 15,000 deadly pills

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis pledges to "hunt down" fentanyl traffickers after stopping over 15,000 pills disguised as OxyContin this week, linking it to the border crisis.

January 13, 2024

DeSantis plans to fund border wall by levying foreign worker remittances to their home countries

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, sounded off to 'Life, Liberty & Levin' about a new proposal on Saturday

January 13, 2024

South Carolina dad, stepmom arrested in 5-year-old’s murder decades after father cried at boy’s discovery

Five-year-old Justin Turner's dad and stepmom were arrested over 30 years after his father broke down during a TV news segment after finding his son's body

January 13, 2024

Surprise move: DeSantis campaign tries to outflank Haley in her own state after Iowa caucus

Ron DeSantis to make a detour to South Carolina following the Iowa caucuses before heading to New Hampshire, as he targets rival Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential nomination race.

January 12, 2024

Northern Virginia county reports 4,000-vote tallying error in 2020 presidential race

Prince William County, Virginia, is acknowledging a counting error that led to President Joe Biden's 2020 margin of victory being underreported by about 4,000 votes.

January 12, 2024

20 children hospitalized in Kentucky after collision between school bus, coal truck

20 children and a bus driver were hospitalized Friday following a Letcher County, Kentucky, collision between a school bus and a coal truck.

January 12, 2024

NC Gov. Cooper gets tentative win in legal battle over environmental board's makeup

A North Carolina judge has temporarily ruled in favor of Gov. Roy Cooper, who argues legislative changes to an environmental regulatory board's makeup impede its functionality.

January 12, 2024

Mississippi high court rejects death row inmate's appeal in 2008 stabbing

The Mississippi Supreme Court has once again ruled that it will not hear an appeal by capital murder convict and death row inmate Timothy Ronk.

January 12, 2024

Georgia Republicans considering Medicaid expansion risk backlash from primary voters

Some Georgia Republican lawmakers are considering expanding Medicaid, but doing so risks alienating Republican primary voters who may oppose expanding health care coverage.