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State lawmakers begin voting on new budget... New York lawmakers began voting Monday on a $229-billion state budget due a month ago that would raise the minimum wage, crack down on illicit pot shops...

Walton County Sheriffs Office(MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla.) -- A Florida woman was arrested and charged with battery on an elected official after she allegedly threw a glass of wine at Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., according to the Walton County Sheriffs Office. The incident occurred on Saturday in Miramar Beach, Florida. Gaetz was at the South Walton Beaches Wine and Food Festival, according to a police report obtained by ABC News. The woman, identified by police as Selena Jo Chambers, told investigators sh...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The rate of drug overdose deaths linked to fentanyl in the United States has skyrocketed over the last five years, new federal data showed. The rate of overdose deaths involving fentanyl spiked by 279% between 2016 and 2021 from 5.7 per 100,000 to 21.6 per 100,000, according to a report published early Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics National Vital Statistics System -- which looked at death certificate records. "We are always hop...

City of Folly Beach(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- A golf cart carrying four people was struck from behind by a suspected drunk driver Friday night near Charleston, South Carolina, killing a woman who had just celebrated her wedding earlier in the day. Chief Andrew Gilreath of the Folly Beach Department of Public Safety identified the victim as 34-year-old Samantha Miller. The three others in the golf cart, who were not named, were all injured, with two in serious condition and one in stable condition. Ja...

20th Century StudiosAs the hero said in Deadpool 2, "Never underestimate a man with a mustache." As proof, Rob Delaney will reportedly reprise his role as the decidedly non-super-powered Peter in Deadpool 3. The character, who auditions for Deadpools X-Force team after seeing an ad in the blockbuster, and only brings to the table his mustache and "both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes," will appear in the anticipated third film, Deadline is reporting. Delaney joins Hugh Jackman in ...

Legislature begins voting on new State Budget... The New York state legislature Monday began voting on a $229-billion state budget due a month ago that would raise the minimum wage... crack down on ...

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px / Getty Images(CLARK COUNTY, Nev.) -- Health officials are investigating an increase of a rare brain infection occurring in kids in Nevada, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) reported in October a "higher than expected" number of pediatric patients in Clark County who have intracranial abscesses. There were 18 cases of intracranial abscesses found in children in 2022, up from about four ...

State lawmakers begin voting on new budget... New York lawmakers began voting Monday on a $229-billion state budget due a month ago that would raise the minimum wage, crack down on illicit pot shops...

FBI Houston via Twitter(CLEVELAND, Texas) -- Authorities are continuing the search for the suspect connected to an "execution-style" shooting that killed five family members in Texas, including an 8-year-old boy. The carnage began Friday night after neighbors asked the suspect, Francisco Oropesa, 38, to stop shooting his gun in the yard of his home in Cleveland, Texas, about 50 miles north of Houston, investigators said. The San Jacinto County Sheriffs Office received a call around 11...

Xijian/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Rachel Simner, the mom of a 13-year-old child in Illinois, said she took her child to a local emergency room last September at the urging of her childs school officials, who had done a suicide risk assessment. Simner, a mom of two, told Good Morning America that when her child was discharged from the emergency room several hours later, her only guidance was a list of pediatric mental health providers that were said to specialize in autism, a condition with which ...