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Celebrate summer and the things you love about the Northern Beaches this Australia Day long weekend. Northern Beaches Council is hosting a number of

Larry Forgy, who died Thursday, Jan. 13, at age 82, will be remembered by fellow Republicans as the one-time whiz kid who blew three races for governor

Elderly, ailing and expensive, lifetime prisoners cost Louisiana taxpayers millions a year.

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -Robert Frost Middle school -- or junior high, which we called it when I went -- should really be classified as a form of child abuse. I recognize that it isn't as bad for everyone as it was for me, but those two years I spent in 7th and 8th grade were easily the worst and most unhappy times of my life.

Ole Miss head football coach Lane Kiffin confirmed that he will be in attendance when quarterback Arch Manning and Isidore Newman face Episcopal...

Alabama may be the leaders in the clubhouse to 

"I basically resumed a normal life," Jackson, now 81, said. Riverside reaches its 1,000th heart-valve case In 2012 Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside was the first Jacksonville-area hospital to perform the innovative procedure. By the time Jacksons case came along in 2018, the hospital had performed about 500 such procedures and by 2021 had reached the 1,000-case milestone. Annually at least 5 million Americans are diagnosed with heart-valve disease. Unlike other forms of heart disease ...

What is a TAVR procedure? Jacksonville hospital celebrates historic milestone TAVR stands for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. The procedure is noninvasive and doctors say less risky than open heart surgery. Author: Leah Shields Updated: 6:54 AM EDT April 19, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla — Eliminating open heart surgery is a big goal. Doctors at Ascension St. Vincent’s in Jacksonville are making progress towards that goal with a big milestone.  Ascension St...

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat (Photo courtesy Fulton County Sheriffs Office) Fulton Sheriff Pat Labat, who took office in January, is creating the agency’s first-ever LGBTQ liaison and updating its training to better address LGBTQ people detained at the county jail. But a local LGBTQ activist said Labat is “working against the interests of the LGBTQ community” with a push to buy the Atlanta jail to house Fulton inmates. Labat ousted incumbent Ted Jackson in the Democratic primary runoff...

Reply You Ought To Do A Story About Me: Addiction, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption, by Ted Jackson (HarperCollins, $27.99, 329 pages, 2020) 1990 How many times has a journalist or reporter heard this: "You ought to do a story about me"? Subscribe Suppose you, the journalist or reporter, met a homeless man on the street, engaged him in conversation and learned he had played in the NFL and more than one Superbowls. Would you believe him? Would it make front page news?...