Sheriff’s office warns residents to beware of gold bar scammers Report the scam to the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office 352-793-2621, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at www.ic3.gov and / or Seniors Vs Crime at (352) 689-4600 ext. 4606. 12/27/2024 - 8:00 am | View Link
Drastic increase in scam text messages; Here are some common scams and how to avoid them Have you received text messages claiming to be from a shipping service? Or maybe from a kind of agency? Here's how to spot, and avoid, scam messages. 12/27/2024 - 5:03 am | View Link
Who qualifies for $1,400 IRS stimulus checks? Why are they being sent? Here's what to know The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that one million taxpayers are set to receive about $2.4 billion in stimulus checks in the coming weeks. 12/26/2024 - 5:55 am | View Link
IRS warning NJ residents about expensive tax scams on social media As the 2025 tax filing season nears, watch out for false tax information on social media targeting New Jersey residents. Don't be swindled by misleading claims promising easy savings; verify advice ... 12/26/2024 - 1:19 am | View Link
Taxes and Finance: Gone phishing? Each year the IRS publishes the top dozen tax scams it encounters over the prior year. One of them that makes an all too common appearance on their list is the phishing scam. Here is what you need ... 12/23/2024 - 2:40 pm | View Link
YNW Melly must make a decision about whether to keep his current legal team for his upcoming murder retrial, and he doesn’t have a lot of time to do it, a Broward judge said Tuesday.
The rapper, whose real name is Jamell Demons, was in court Tuesday for the second of a two-day “all pending motions” hearing, a proceeding in which lawyers are supposed to take care of any unfinished business stopping a trial from going forward.
Zoe Greenberg | (TNS) The Philadelphia Inquirer
On a brisk Saturday afternoon, A. crouched in a boxer’s stance, knees bent, one hip forward, raised her new Ruger Security-380 pistol aloft with both hands, and pulled the trigger. Spent gold casings clinked to the ground as a paper plate across the range filled with bullet holes.
Two years ago, with insurance costs skyrocketing, Florida legislators called a special session, vowing to provide relief.
Their plan was shady from the moment they announced it.
The Republican lawmakers who control the state had spent years ignoring warnings from industry experts who had begged them to spend serious time on this complicated issue, opting instead to wage culture wars with everyone from Disney to drag queens.
By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U. S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan.
By JOHN ROGERS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday in New York, publicist Ken Sunshine said.
A recent study published in The Lancet, one of the world’s most respected academic journals, predicted that by 2050, more than 43 million adolescents and 213 million adults in the United States will be overweight or living with obesity. These projections, driven by factors ranging from lifestyle to economic instability and education, serve as a wake-up call: It’s time to prioritize our health and make meaningful changes — individually and collectively.
Obesity is more than a number on a scale.