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A Florida woman tried to explain away the presence of cocaine in her purse by telling police officers the wind blew it in to her bag. Fort Pierce police officers pulled over resident Kennecia Posey March 21 after the car she was in swerved into another lane, according to Saturday reports . When the officer approached the car , he noticed the smell of marijuana emitting from it, the police report noted. Officers searched the car and discovered two separate bags of marijuana and cocaine. Posey claimed the marijuana bag as her own but had no idea how the cocaine landed in her purse, she said. “I don’t know anything about any cocaine,” Posey told officers, according to the report. “It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.” Officers didn’t buy her story, as they booked Posey on one felony count of cocaine possession and a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. Follow Amber on Twitter Send tips to …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Robert Colescott was a brilliant painter before he went to Egypt in 1964. After visiting Egypt, he became an original. A flamethrower. The artist who now perhaps most deserves a complete reassessment of his position in American art history. What happened in Egypt? Colescott spent a year as Faculty Artist in Residence at the American Research Center in Cairo. It was his first time spent around a majority Black population. The experience revolutionized his racial identity. Previous to Egypt, Colescott (b. 1925, Oakland, CA; d. 2009, Tucson, AZ) assumed a white identity. Light-skinned with multiracial parents, Colescott could “pass” for white in Jim Crow America. When he entered the U.S. Army to fight in World War II, he selected “white” as his race on personnel documents. His artwork to this point, similarly, followed white, Eurocentric traditions. Still life paintings. Modern figuration. Contemporary interpretations of …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue Cynthia Murray, who turns 65 years this month, is a 20-year Walmart WMT associate in Laurel, Md. who puts in 32 hours in a four-day workweek. In February 2021, she got a 30-cent an hour raise boosting her hourly wage to $15.27. But even at that level, Murray can't afford to use Walmart's health insurance plan because visiting her primary care physician costs $80 out-of-pocket, let alone $300 for an MRI to look at her bad back. "Finances are hard," Murray said. Murray is a founding member of United for Respect, an organization of largely Walmart employees that has been pushing America's biggest private sector employer to boost the pay of its mostly low-wage workers. She is a passionate advocate for the movement to boost minimum wages to $15 an hour for America's 32 million minimum-wage workers. Yet older workers have been largely invisible during activist campaigns for better wages. …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Kavita Channe’s entry into the world of wine was hardly a conventional one. The London native has a background in broadcast journalism. She’s reported live from NHL rinks and along NFL sidelines across the country. During more than a decade in the field, however, a passion was percolating for the grape game—spurned on by the graceful allure of rosé. The only problem was that at her favorite bars and restaurants, Channe was often greeted by sweeter offerings, made with less than optimal ingredients. So the broadcaster decided to crush things herself. What started as joking wordplay with friends (since her last name rhymes with rośe) blossomed into a very serious brand after a trip to the south of France in 2016. A particularly dry offering with hints of stone fruit and lavender, the flagship bottling didn’t take long to resonate with a wide audience. It was awarded a silver medal at the prestigious Concours Général Agricole …

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Source: Reuters The big idea Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels for transportation and electricity, have worsened the intensity of extreme rainfall and snowfall over land in recent decades, not just in a few areas but on a global scale, new research shows. Past studies were able to attribute individual extreme events and long-term changes in some regions to climate change, but global assessments have been more difficult. We used a new technique to analyze precipitation records from around the world and found conclusive evidence of human influence on extreme precipitation in every one. Scientists have been warning that rising global temperatures will lead to more extreme precipitation in the future, mainly because warm air “holds” more water vapor in the atmosphere, fueling storms. With Earth already about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 F) warmer since the start of the industrial era, we wanted to find out if that change had already started. Close …

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A member of the Afghan air force marshals in an A-29 Super Tucano at Hamid Karzai International Airport near Kabul, Afghanistan, January 15, 2016. Picture taken January 15, 2016. Image source: Reuters. Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling capital. Instead of being greeted by a prospective buyer at his realtor's office earlier this year, the 41-year-old pilot was confronted by a gunman who walked inside and, without a word, fatally shot the real estate agent in the mouth. Zamaray reached for his sidearm but the gunman shot him in the head. The father of seven collapsed dead on his 14-year-old son, who had tagged along. The boy was spared, but barely speaks anymore, his family says. Zamaray “only went there because he personally knew the realtor and thought it was safe," Samiullah Darman, his brother-in-law, told …

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It's Tax Day. Nobody's happy. But this year, taxpayers who live above a certain income bracket in states like California, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are even less happy than usual. You probably know why. Most of the country is getting at least some tax cut this year, but the 2017 tax law severely limited the degree to which state and local taxes can be deducted from income for the purpose of computing federal taxes. So if you make good income and own property in these states, there's a good chance your federal income taxes actually went up, even while many other Americans' taxes went down. Now, I know that there's not a lot of sympathy among many Americans for people who make say, $300,000 a year or more, and who are now upset about paying higher taxes. Also, roughly half of my highly valued readers live in places like Texas, Florida, and Nevada where state and local taxes are lower to begin with -- so they're not affected by the new law …

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Tim Tebow made an awesome touchdown grab during a recent Jacksonville Jaguars practice. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence spun the ball to the Florida Heisman winner, who successfully hauled it in for a touchdown. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) Watch the awesome video below. Lawrence to Tebow in the red zone pic.twitter.com/9XyZO6i48W — Cubjag (@cubjag) July 30, 2021 I have no idea if Tebow will make the final roster or not as a tight end. At this point, I’d say that it’s about 50/50 on whether or not he’s out there week one . However, the fact he’s making plays in practice certainly doesn’t hurt his chances. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jacksonville Jaguars (@jaguars) Tebow seemingly made that diving catch without much effort at all. It looked incredibly natural for the former quarterback. . @MackenzieSalmon …

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Image source: The Motley Fool. Nucor Corp ( NYSE:NUE ) Apr 22, 2021 , 2:00 p.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good day, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Nucor Corporation First Quarter 2021 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Certain statements made during the conference call will be forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The words we expect, believe, anticipate, and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify those forward-looking statements which are based on management's current expectations and information that is currently available. Although Nucor believes that they are based on reasonable assumptions there can be no assurance that future events will not affect their accuracy. More information about the risk and uncertainties relating to these forward-looking statements may be found in Nucor's latest 10-K and …

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Image source: The Motley Fool. Nucor Corporation ( NYSE:NUE ) Jul 22, 2021 , 2:00 p.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Nucor Corporation's Second Quarter of 2021 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will come at that time. Certain statements made during this conference will be forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The words we expect, believe, anticipate, and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify those forward-looking statements, which are based on management's current expectations and information that is currently available. Although Nucor believes they are based on reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that future events will not affect their accuracy. For information about the risks and uncertainties …

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