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Augusta, Georgia
Joined April 2008
A new tiny moon has been found around Uranus by NASA’s Webb telescope
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“There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” planetary scientist Matthew Tiscareno said.
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Nearly a third of US businesses expect to increase prices in the next six months due to rising costs and inflation, according to a new survey.
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Nearly a third of US businesses expect to increase prices in the next six months due to rising costs and inflation, with businesses in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Montana, Washington, Oregon and V…
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The FDA is investigating contamination reports in frozen shrimp products sold at Walmart.
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The Food and Drug Administration is actively investigating contamination reports in frozen shrimp products sold at Walmart.
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“Hello, hello, we have a fire in the basement with a baby in the basement.”
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“Hello, hello, we have a fire in the basement with a baby in the basement.”
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#VOTE | Cast your vote in our first Player of the Week poll of the 2025 season! You can vote once per day until Friday at 11 p.m.
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Cast your vote in our first Player of the Week poll of the 2025 season!
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Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance state officers to leave the floor.
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On Monday, Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public Sa…
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ICE arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25, as part of the agency's effort to step up immigration enforcement.
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OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) — A Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities has agreed to voluntarily leave the country, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday. ICE arr…
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Although the storm is expected to stay offshore, evacuations were ordered on such barrier islands along the Carolina coast as authorities warned the storm could churn up dangerous rip currents from Florida to New England.
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Authorities warned the storm could churn up dangerous rip currents and swamp roads with waves of 15 feet.
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#BREAKING: Two former Wagener fire chiefs were arrested by SLED Tuesday morning.
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WAGENER, S.C. (WJBF) – Two former Wagener fire chiefs were arrested by SLED Tuesday morning. 52-year-old David Watson of Neece, S.C., was booked into Aiken County Detention Center at 7:35 a.m…
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Reports say Samantha Renee Williams left her daughter at the Publix in Evans. The daughter reportedly told the store manager that her mother said, "sit down and told her that someone is trying to kill her."
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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – The woman who was reported missing in Columbia County Monday evening is now in the Columbia County Jail. Reports say Samantha Renee Williams left her daughter at…
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President Trump on Tuesday quipped that bringing an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine would help him get into heaven, joking that he heard he’s “at the bottom of the totem pole.”
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President Trump on Tuesday quipped that bringing an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine would help him get into heaven, joking that he heard he’s “at the bottom of the totem pole.…
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#BREAKING | The power is out in and around Butler High School in Augusta.
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RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – The power is out in and around Butler High School in Augusta. According to the Georgia Power Outage Map below, the area covers portions of Lumpkin Road and Mike …
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AMBER ALERT | An Amber Alert was issued several hours ago for 2 children who were last seen in Riviera Beach, Florida.
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FLORIDA/GEORGIA (WJBF) – An Amber Alert was issued several hours ago for 2 children who were last seen in Riviera Beach, Florida. According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited …
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THIS JUST IN | WJBF's parent company, Nexstar Media Group, is expected to buy TEGNA Inc., another media company with over 60 TV stations across the country.
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(WJBF) – WJBF’s parent company, Nexstar Media Group, is expected to buy TEGNA Inc., another media company with over 60 TV stations across the country. In a press release sent out Tuesda…
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#UPDATE - According to CCSO, Samantha was located about 7 pm Monday evening. No other information has been released.
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Samantha Williams, 36, of Salley, S.C. and her daughter were seen on video walking into a the Publix at Riverwood Town Center on Aug. 18.
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An experimental cancer vaccine has shown promising results in keeping pancreatic and colorectal cancers from coming back.
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A majority of patients who received the vaccine remained cancer-free after 16 months.
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Democratic State Senator and candidate for governor Jason Esteves made a stop in Augusta at the Henry Brigham Community Center on Monday.
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Democratic State Senator and candidate for governor Jason Esteves made a stop in Augusta at the Henry Brigham Community Center on Monday, Aug. 18.
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The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, a key House lawmaker said Monday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, a key House lawmaker said Monday in announcing a move th…
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What the skibidi is happening to the English language?.
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LONDON (AP) — What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additio…
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Hurricane Erin forced tourists to cut their vacations short on North Carolina’s Outer Banks even though the monster storm is expected to stay offshore after lashing part of the Caribbean with rain and wind on Monday.
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Hurricane Erin forced tourists to cut their vacations short on North Carolina’s Outer Banks even though the monster storm is expected to stay offshore after lashing part of the Caribbean with rain …
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