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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STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard and several other agencies rescued 66 people stranded on ice floes in a bay in northeastern Wisconsin. Ice boats and helicopters were used to bring the people who were ice fishing to safety Thursday in Door County. Three separate ice floes broke away after cracks developed …
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Former Marine Staff Sgt. James Martin, a veterans advocate in Pittsburgh, will be on the field Sunday as one of three “honorary captains” chosen by the NFL for the Super Bowl coin flip. In an interview with Military.com, he said he hopes his presence delivers the message that “if we all band together, there’s nothing …
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Former Marine Staff Sgt. James Martin, a veterans advocate in Pittsburgh, will be on the field Sunday as one of three “honorary captains” chosen by the NFL for the Super Bowl coin flip. In an interview with Military.com, he said he hopes his presence delivers the message that “if we all band together, there’s nothing …
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