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Ebony Pullum as Billie Holiday (front) sings “What a Little Moonlight Can Do" during a promotional photoshoot at Florida Rep's ArtStage Studio theatre on September 16, 2022. Behind Pullum is Garrick Vaughan as Jimmy Powers, Billie's friend and piano player, in the musical.

The show must go on: Florida Rep resurrects 'Lady Day' at Alliance for the Arts after Hurricane Ian

Despite damages to the historic Arcade Theatre caused by Hurricane Ian, the Florida Repertory Theatre in downtown Fort Myers is continuing its run of the Billie Holiday musical “Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grille" at the Alliance for the Arts.

Kurt Zouma of West Ham United reacts during the Premier League match with Watford at London Stadium on Tuesday. Zouma has apologized after a video showed him abusing cats.

U.K. soccer player Kurt Zouma is under fire after a video showed him abusing cats

The West Ham United player has been fined for his actions and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has launched an investigation into the matter.

President Trump has promised a second-term agenda that would replicate his first term.

Republican Convention Shows Trump's 2nd-Term Agenda Looks Just Like His 1st

Republicans readopted the same platform that propelled Trump to the White House in 2016. But GOP divisions and partisanship have ground Washington nearly to a halt.

Another Super Bowl bet emerges: Can Taylor Swift make it from her Tokyo show in time?

The Kansas City Chiefs — including Travis Kelce — will play in the Super Bowl in Las Vegas on Feb. 11. Swift has a show in Tokyo the night before. Can she get there in time? The math says yes.

U.S. gymnast Sunisa Lee finishes on the uneven bars during the gymnastics women's all-around final at the Summer Olympics on Thursday.

Sunisa Lee Claims Olympic Gold And Shows U.S. Gymnastics Has More Than 1 Superstar

This competition was initially defined by who wasn't competing. U.S. star Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time and the heavy favorite to win, pulled out to take care of her mental health.

Super Tuesday voters walk in to the polling location in Alexandria City Hall on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 in Alexandria, Va.

Super Tuesday’s dominance shows how presidential selection process can exclude many US voters

Super Tuesday is traditionally the biggest day nationwide for primary elections and caucuses before the actual Election Day in November.Voters in 16 different states and one territory will decide who they want to run for president.More than one-third of the total delegates available in both the Republican and Democratic primaries will be awarded.

In November 2019, PJ Hahn, former director of Coastal Zone Management for Plaquemines Parish, stood in the spot where Cat Island once was. "To be standing there in three, four feet of water where the land used to be so beautiful. I remember pulling up to this island, the minute we got close the birds would fly off the island."

'Where The Land Used To Be,' Photos Show Louisiana Coast 10 Years After BP Oil Spill

Photographer Tyrone Turner documented the life and changes on Cat Island in the southeastern coastal area of the state before it disappeared.

A year later, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has released body-worn camera footage of a July 13, 2022, incident in which one of several deputies arresting a woman at a traffic stop punched her in the face as she held her newborn baby.

An LA deputy punched a woman in the face as she held her 3-week-old baby, video shows

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna released video of the July 2022 incident this week, saying he'd only just learned of it. He said the deputy has been disciplined and the FBI is looking into it.

As seen in newly released video from his police body camera, University of Florida police Sgt. Stephanie Williams holds his service pistol as he advances toward the origin of a panicked stampede during a nighttime vigil on campus Oct. 9, 2023, for Israelis killed in Hamas attacks. Police concluded the students panicked because a woman in the crowd had fainted and her boyfriend shouted for others to call 911, not because of gunfire or an explosion. (University of Florida Police Department/Fresh Take Florida).

Update: New videos show chaos at UF peace vigil; police secretly investigating suicide-bomb threat

The first substantial videos to emerge from a panicked stampede at the University of Florida during a nighttime vigil for Israelis killed in the Hamas attacks show waves of terrified students sprinting out of their shoes, discarding phones and water bottles and colliding with startled and confused police officers who had drawn their pistols searching for a possible gunman through the melee.

Paul Vincenti oil painting 'Blazing Coleus 2'

Solo Paul Vincenti show at Arts Bonita Performing Arts Center features flora and fauna from artist's garden

“Oasis of Notions” is a solo show of oil paintings by Paul Vincenti that creates a veritable jungle of orchids, bamboo, wild ginger and other plants, with a smattering of hummingbirds and butterflies.

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