Before he became the first Black player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Emlen Tunnell served in the Coast Guard during and after World War II, where he was credited with saving the lives of two shipmates in separate incidents. Now, a Coast Guard cutter and an athletic building on the Coast Guard …
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TANGIPAHOA, La. (AP) — A.J. Beckendorf sleeps in comfort most nights, as long as the temperatures don’t drop too low. Since his trailer was split in half during Hurricane Zeta at the end of October, Beckendorf relies on insulation foam, tarps and lumber to keep out as much of the cold as he can. As …
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In October 1967, Navy meteorologist Paul Grisham shipped out to Antarctica, where he worked as a weather forecaster for a science station and airport on Ross Island. Thirteen months later, he returned to his family in sunny California, but his wallet never left. On Saturday, the now 91-year-old Grisham was reunited with his long-lost billfold, …
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Black Americans are more hesitant than whites to take the COVID vaccine. Reasons for that hit close to home in Savannah, and include a classified military operation in the 1950s that dropped hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes — mosquitoes that many believe were infected with disease — on Carver Village. “They …
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DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Scott Tomlinson took his first solo flight as a pilot when he was only 16 years old. It’s been 50 years since that flight, and Tomlinson recently joined a prestigious list of pilots honored by the Federal Aviation Administration. And all his years as a pilot have been free of accidents. …
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