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DeSmog Oct 1, 2018 @ 15:39 South Carolina was spared the worst of Hurricane Florence’s fury when the storm made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, but did not escape its catastrophic impacts. Nearly two weeks later, the state was still contending with historic flooding.  Flooded house in Socastee, South Carolina. Florence lingered over the Carolinas, dumping more than 30 inches of rain in some areas. Five rivers and the IntraCoastal Waterway crested several feet above major flood stage, resulting in flooding that will last for weeks to come in parts of South Carolina. Cities ...

Horseheads Restaurant To Be Featured on New Food Network Show Can you even stand the excitement? First, there were several eyewitness sightings of David Bromstad from HGTV in Vestal and Owego ( we still are dying to know if he’s filming or if he’s just visiting) and now we’ve learned that...dun ta-da dun...Food Network just filmed a show at a Southern Tier restaurant! Get our free mobile app Way back in 2019 (and it really does feel like 2019 was way in our past, doesn’t it?), a production company approached the owners of Beefeater Tavern in Horseheads and asked if they’d be intere...

$3b domestic violence effort has failed: report Save Share More than $3 billion spent over the past decade on a coordinated national strategy has failed to reduce family, domestic and sexual violence, according to a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry. In 2009 state and federal officials agreed on a decade-long plan to reduce violence against women and their children, which led to the creation of the Our Watch organisation to prevent domestic violence, the “Stop it at the Start” awareness campaign and national support services such as 1800RESPECT. On Thursday, Parliament’s standin...

Qld to examine women in criminal justice system By Naomi Neilson|15 March 2021 A task force comprising barristers, principal law officers and other legal experts will examine the experiences of women across the criminal justice system, led by the former Lawyer X inquiry commissioner Margaret McMurdo AC.  Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said that while the state has made “significant progress” towards preventing and responding to domestic, family and sexual violence, “we know there is more work to be done”. This included last month’s announcement to legislate coercive contr...

Manager of the Occidental bar on Vulcan Lane, Patrick O'Leary Photo: RNZ While there's relief on the streets, it's overshadowed by some people's belief the decision should have happened, or been announced, earlier. The city moved to level 1 at midday, which was about 25 minutes after Ardern announced Cabinet's decision at a media briefing - but hours after Cabinet made an in principle decision last night. Auckland resident Louise Ingles thought the government could have made moves faster to ratify its decision. "I think given that we've had no community cases it would have possibly been the ...