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<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/17260748/smalltown-usa-1_350x219.jpg" alt="Small Town, USA" class="ImageFloatRight"/>While the federal government drags its heels taking action against abortion, cities in America are taking action themselves – while they're still able.</p>

A city in Ohio has become the first in the state to pass an ordinance that bans abortions in its jurisdiction after its leadership unanimously voted to approve the measure.

View Comments Juneteenth — when Emancipation Day is celebrated nationally — is taking a back seat in Florida to May 20, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in Tallahassee. To honor the occasion, The Village Square, Leon County and the Tallahassee Democrat are partnering to reintroduce the importance of Floridas Emancipation Day during the annual Created Equal event. Florida Emancipation Day celebrates the day Union troops declared the Emancipation Proclamation effective ac...

Facebook Researchers Teach AI To Disregard Irrelevant Information To Improve Overall Performance Do you remember discussing (or arguing) with your schoolteacher about how you would never use some of the lessons that they they taught? There were probably some things that you never used and simply forgot about, but what if you could never forget such extraneous information? As it turns out, AI and machine learning have this exact problem, but Facebook AI researchers are looking to tackle it by te...

View Comments NEWARK - The trial of a Lexington woman accused of attempting to terminate her late-term pregnancy and failing to seek medical care for her infant is expected to begin this week in Licking County. Kalina V.E. Gillum, 22, and her then-boyfriend Braden C. Mull, 26, of Newark, were each charged with one count each involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony; endangering children, a third-degree felony; tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; and abuse of a corpse, a fift...

Living history frames Riley Museums Emancipation Day celebrations Amanda Sieradzki View Comments In the early 2000s, the Riley Museum and the Knott House Museum came together to create a community-wide celebration for Florida’s Emancipation Day — the day in Tallahassee when enslaved people in Southern states were declared freed.  The annual commemoration takes place on May 20 each year and includes a grave decorating ceremony in honor of John G. Riley’s reverent walks to the cemetery to ...

Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), along with Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), today led a group of 19 senators in a letter to Jeffrey Bezos questioning why  Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, a documentary about the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was removed from Amazon’s streaming service. The film’s removal came during Black History Month. In part, the senators wrote, “The film’s popularity aside, Amazon’s deci...

Poets for Freedom: A Leon County Emancipation Day poetry contest and last updated 2021-04-30 14:40:03-04 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Leon County Government invites citizens to recognize Floridas upcoming Emancipation Day on May 20 by participating in "Poets for Freedom," a unique project featuring original poems on the topic of freedom. The program is organized by the LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library System and will showcase submissions throughout the month of May. Poets must be ag...

Leon County to host Created Equal Forum As the country looks at racial inequality, Leon County is taking a look back at the journey African-Americans have taken since emancipation. and last updated 2021-04-22 19:05:07-04 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — As the country looks at racial inequality, Leon County is taking a look back at the journey African-Americans have taken since emancipation. The county is hosting Created Equal on May 20 this year. Thats the day slaves were freed in Florida in 18...

Local pro-lifers outlawing abortion Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com) Ohio will soon launch an effort to make abortion clinics and their personnel go elsewhere. People at the local and sometimes state levels often feel they either have no voice or that what voice they do have is not heard. But Mark Harrington of Created Equal reminds One News Now of an old saying: All politics are local. "As were seeing more dysfunction in Washington, D.C. and our state houses, unborn babies unfortunately are stil...