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David Heitz

Do you wonder what that nasty smell that has been cropping up all over Denver is?. I know. Denver has lots of nasty smells, including urine and feces in the alleys. There also is the unmistakable chemical smell of meth that turns some people’s stomachs. And of course, marijuana lingers in the air Denver-wide.

Opinion: The smell of death in Denver

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Kansas City, MO

CJ Coombs

I first encountered a rat one evening in a Target parking lot. When my daughter told me it was a rat, I went straight to the car and she went to get a photo of it since she's never seen one before. I assure you it wasn't little.

Rat infestations in Missouri: it can be a growing concern

Los Angeles, CA

Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Los Angeles Dodgers Designated Hitter Shohei Ohtani was held out of the lineup on Sunday due to what the Dodgers call "lower back tightness." Ohtani complained about his back in the game against the San Diego Padres on Saturday night.

Devastating Injury News As Shohei Ohtani Sits Out On May 12

Florida State

Pensacola, FL

L. Cane

Florida has plenty of historic restaurants that are fun to visit. Examples are the No Name Pub in Big Pine Key, Joe's Stone Crab in Miami, and The Seminole Inn in Indiantown. However, neither is fast food. And Love Food recently named Florida's "most historic" fast food restaurant. It's not a chain, but it does have an interesting story.

Florida's "Most Historic" Fast Food Restaurant Is "Straight Out Of Happy Days"

Kansas State

Marthasville, MO

The Herman H. Fortmann Building at 207 Depot Street in Marthasville, Missouri (Warren County) is 120 years old. As old as this building is, it's attractive and fun to observe. On May 5, 2006, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Historic 120-year-old Herman Fortmann Building: a timeless gem in Marthasville, Missouri

Jackson, WY

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JACKSON HOLE—National Elk Refuge staffer Frank Durbian spent Thursday morning watching members of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribes hold a ceremony, then take down three bull bison on ancestral northwest Wyoming lands their forebears once occupied.

Tribal bison hunt expands on National Elk Refuge to include Eastern Shoshone

Louisiana State

Campbell, MO

When homes are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it usually means there will be an intended purpose to keep the structure alive whether it’s through historic restoration, repurposing, or general maintenance. Sometimes, too, these places get demolished.

This house in the southern tip of Missouri constructed over 160 years ago could be a book of stories

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Green River, WY

Cody Roberts walked into the Green River Bar joking that he’d found a lost cattle dog. The woman tending bar that evening seemed to know what would happen next. “The bartender goes, ‘Cody, you better not bring in a fucking lion,’” an eyewitness recalled. “She knew he was going to bring something in that was not a dog.”

Eyewitness describes Wyoming wolf’s final hours in the Green River Bar

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Lexington, KY

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky coach Mark Pope never played high school basketball in the Bluegrass State. If you didn’t know any better, you would think he has bled Blue all of his life. His three seasons at Kentucky from 1994-96, including a year he had to sit out because of NCAA transfer rules in place at the time, was all it took for Pope to understand what it means to wear the Blue-and-White jersey.

Keith Taylor: Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope understands what it means to bleed Blue

Tennessee State

Springfield, MO

If you're from the Ozarks region of Missouri, you might have heard people talk about the old type of medicinal cure known as the madstone. It's hard to tell if it's true or false without personal experience, or at least whether someone in a family's long history line was treated with one of these stones.

Discovering Missouri's madstones: an ancient remedy or Ozark folklore

Harvard, MA

The Harvard Crimson 

By Tilly R. Robinson and Neil H. Shah, Crimson Staff Writers. Harvard Sociology assistant professor Christina J. Cross was accused of plagiarism in an anonymous complaint to Harvard’s Office of Research Integrity, conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo reported in the City Journal — the fourth Black woman at Harvard who studies race or social justice to be accused of plagiarism.

Fourth Black Female Harvard Scholar Accused of Plagiarism Amid Assault on DEI Initiatives

Migrants and their advocates hosted a press conference Friday at an undisclosed homeless encampment and railed against conditions in Denver. Migrants Willy Bastidas and a woman named Mandy shared stories of shelter conditions. They said migrants are being kicked out after three days with nowhere to go.

Migrants defend homeless encampment in Denver ahead of sweep

Migrant homeless encampment dwellers who have been swept from location to location by city crews finally won a reprieve Wednesday. On Wednesday, the city offered the encampment dwellers seven days of shelter instead of three, which was the original offer turned down by the campers. “It would hardly be a worthwhile respite before they would find themselves back on the streets with no support, scattered,” Housekeys Action Network Denver, or HAND, posted on Instagram.

Migrants at homeless encampment chant 'all united' in Spanish as Denver lengthens shelter stays

The Denver City Council learned more Wednesday about the workforce development component of the Denver Asylum Seekers Program. The city has transitioned the way it helps migrants, closing shelters and instead placing 800 people in the asylum program. That includes people who had been staying in non-congregate hotel shelters, all but one of which have closed. New migrant arrivals will not be eligible for the six-month work program until some graduate, according to a presentation by city staff. The city intends to keep 500 people in the work program at a time, according to Tony Anderson, workforce development manager for the city.

Denver aims to place migrants in minimum $20 per hour jobs

Orlando, FL

There are places in Florida that naturally have many restaurants and hotels because they are needed to house all of the tourists who visit Florida's attractions and theme parks.

Highly-Visited FL Hotel Next To Upcoming Attraction Is Closing, Laying Off Over 150 Employees

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SDSU softball runs win streak to 17 after sweep of St. Thomas

BROOKINGS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - South Dakota State was solid in its doubleheader meeting against St. Thomas on Saturday, April 27, en route to two...

SDSU softball runs win streak to 17 after sweep of St. Thomas

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