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People shop at Walmart on Black Friday 2022 in Dunwoody, Ga.

What tracking one Walmart store's prices for years taught us about the economy

Inside our shopping cart is a story of global trade, extreme weather, shrinking packages and rising prices.

A NASA satellite captured the huge bloom of blue-green algae the same week in early June that Captains for Clean Water flew a plane over Lake Okeechobee and filmed remarkable images of the cyanobacteria. If heavy rains or a hurricane come this way the Army Corps of Engineers will release this water down the Caloosahatchee River to protect the people living around the lake rather than test the integrity of the reinforced Herbert Hoover Dike any more than has been done with the lake level over 14 feet

Lake O 'dirtiest' U.S. lake? Well, there may be more to it than that

Water experts in Florida agree, as well as take exception, to a new report that says Lake Okeechobee is the dirtiest lake in the United States.The report by Lake.com, a Canadian-based vacation rental platform offering lake houses, cabins and cottages for rent, says Lake O's top issue is visibly murky water due to turbidity levels and lead contamination.The report said that an amount of lead was detected in its most recent samples. There is no safe level of lead, and its presence in lakes is unnatural. Additionally, the report said turbidity here was the second-highest of all evaluated lakes after Utah Lake, giving the impression of rather cloudy water.

Court Backs Hospital In Insurer PIP Dispute

An appeals court Wednesday rejected an attempt by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company to gather a variety of information about how much a...

Port Lavaca Mayor Jack Whitlow surveys damage to a park pier as Tropical Storm Bill passes over his town Tuesday afternoon. The storm came ashore around midday with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph.

Storm Pours More Rain On Drenched Texas

Tropical Storm Bill is now a tropical depression. It's churning along a path through Waco and Dallas-Fort Worth, areas with lakes and rivers that already have been swollen with recent heavy rains.

FWC Approves First Statewide Bear Hunt In More Than Two Decades

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved the first statewide bear hunt in more than two decades Wednesday.The decision came after a…

Oregon Armed Occupation Continues

Anti-federalist protesters in Oregon have now occupied buildings at a national wildlife refuge for more than a week.

A flesh-eating bacteria has killed seven people in Florida so far this year.

Vibrio Bacteria Cases Not A ‘Harbinger,’ Doc Says

It’s beach season, and a potentially deadly bacteria is making headlines. It’s called vibrio vulnificus. So far, seven people have died from Vibrio this...

Smoke from the the Reynolds Creek wildfire rises above the landscape at St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, Mont.

Wildfires In Montana, California Scorch Thousands Of Acres, Trigger Evacuations

The fire at Glacier National Park forced the evacuation of a park inn and campground. In California, a fire in Napa was threatening 150 structures.

After a gunman, motivated by racist ideas, killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in June, some elected officials in the South have tried to remove the Confederate flag from public places. Some Southerners protest that the flag has a public role as a symbol of their heritage.

Confederate Flag Supporters In Georgia Indicted On Terrorism Charges

The indictment stems from a July incident in which a group of white men in Confederate flag-adorned pickup trucks verbally clashed with black partygoers. Some of the confrontation was caught on video.

Citrus greening (Huanglongbing) is reeking havoc on Florida's citrus industry.

Cold Snap Shouldn't Threaten Major Citrus Production Areas

A cold snap is bringing freezing temperatures to Florida this weekend. But one citrus scientist says the state’s embattled growers shouldn’t see much...

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