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Data collected about heat in Jacksonville, Fla., will be used to help areas impacted

5:12pm July 18, 2022

by Brendan Rivers

As climate change warms the planet, volunteers mapped heat in Jacksonville, Fla., in a federal research project. The city will use data collected to help neighborhoods threatened by extreme heat.

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Police search for answers after 2 shootings in Indianapolis, Ind., over the weekend

5:12pm July 18, 2022

by Katrina Pross

Police are investigating two weekend shootings in the Indianapolis, Ind., metro area.

Monkeypox treatments are difficult to get despite the nation's large stockpile

5:12pm July 18, 2022

by Pien Huang

There are enough antiviral pills in the nation's strategic stockpile to treat 1.7 million people with monkeypox. But doctors, patients and advocates say getting the treatment is very hard.

Many first-time investors in crypto are dealing with painful losses

5:12pm July 18, 2022

by David Gura

A steep sell-off has hurt many first-time investors who bought crypto last year, when Bitcoin and other digital currencies were hitting record highs.

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New book details the wealth and power of the former richest man in America

5:12pm July 18, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

J. Paul Getty was America's richest man in his day, turning oil into billions of dollars. A new biography — Growing Up Getty — reveals Getty's wealth and power.

Wanda Palmer spent two years in a coma, but she recently emerged and identified her brother as the person who viciously attacked her in 2020.

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Emerging from a 2-year coma, a West Virginia woman says her brother attacked her

4:52pm July 18, 2022

by Bill Chappell

Wanda Palmer barely survived the ordeal in June of 2020, when an assailant used what is believed to be a machete or hatchet to attack her in her home.

Arizona cities respond to the worst drought in over a thousand years with a new plan

4:50pm July 18, 2022

by Katherine Davis-Young

Cities in Arizona have started implementing state-required drought plans in response to the crisis on the Colorado River. The current drought is the worst in 1,200 years.

Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year

4:50pm July 18, 2022

Lia Thomas was nominated for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award by the University of Pennsylvania. In March, Thomas became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division 1 history.

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The trial for the Parkland high school shooting begins

4:50pm July 18, 2022

by Greg Allen

The trial began Monday for the admitted gunman of the 2018 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and 17 others injured. He faces the death penalty or life in prison.

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Key buildings the first Black Marines used will be restored thanks to a new project

4:41pm July 18, 2022

by Jay Price

Key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base in North Carolina are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, which were used by the first Black Marines, trained roughly 20,000 men.