The annual Festival of Lights and the Chocolate Festival will be returning Dec. 3 to downtown Clinton.
Clinton Regional Hospital auxiliary volunteer Lavonne Holmes, left, and Debra Mendez, director of volunteers, puts the finishing touches on one of the Christmas trees at the hospital. The auxiliary sold four trees to be decorated to local businesses for $200 each and four wreathes for $75 each. Mendez said all of the proceeds go back to the hospital. She said in the last 10 years the auxiliary has raised $272,778 for the hospital.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve its Robocall Mitigation Database that could reduce illegal robocalls. He is working with 46 other attorneys general to close a loophole in the database that allows bad actors to have access to the U.S. telephone network.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal’s death.
(AP) – Poultry on a commercial farm in England have been infected with the bird flu virus, the U.K. government said Sunday.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles adds “fuel to the fire” of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City on Monday issued its first drought warning in 22 years after months of little rain – and will restart the flow of drinking water from an out-ofservice aqueduct as supplies run low.
NEW YORK (AP) — An outbreak of E. coli has infected dozens of people who ate bagged organic carrots, and one person died from the infection.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Doctors, nurses and an ambulance driver are among 47 people on trial accused of causing the deaths of 10 infants as part of an alleged scheme to defraud Turkey’s social security system.