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It is like the Shark Tank for Rhode Island high school students. Daisha Jackson, a senior at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, won first place and a $5,000 scholarship in Lieutenant Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge, a business p

Flowery Branch scored three runs in the top of the second and Nikki Harris made it stand up in a tight 3-2 win over Jefferson on Thursday in both teams Region 8-5A opener...

her momentum going last night in her birthplace of waterloo, iowa. >> we will take the country back. i know its going to happen. >> reporter: she had to share the stage with her newest rival, texas governor, rick perry. >> sometimes it takes me awhile to get into something like this presidential race, but let me tell you, when im in, im in the all the way. >> reporter: while perry jumped in over the weekend, tim pawlenty quit after finishing a disappointing third in the iowa straw poll...