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A crash on JR Allen Pkwy. in Columbus has left traffic at a standstill.

An assessment released this week by the U.S. Drought Monitor shows about 40% of the state is either abnormally dry or in a drought. The area includes the homes of about 440,000 people statewide.

Lueck disappeared June 17, after she returned from a trip to her hometown of El Segundo, California, for her grandmother’s funeral and took a Lyft from the airport to a park where she met someone.

Barry Lee Hastings Jr. was booked by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Thursday night for impersonating a public officer after he pulled over an off-duty Lee County deputy.

A couple in Columbus recently celebrated spending 72 years of lives together as a married couple, but could not quite mark the occasion where they might have wanted to.

The lawsuit filed by Ga Ram Kang’s family alleges that there should have been a limit on how many people were in the pool. It also said lifeguards should have had better training.

Speaking to reporters as he departed the White House for a weekend in New Jersey, Trump said the idea is among four or five options he’s considering as he pushes the issue.

A Pennsylvania librarian is bringing books to kids this summer, even though her town doesn’t have a library.

The 6.4 magnitude quake struck at 10:33 a.m. Thursday in the Mojave Desert, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles.