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Feb 15 2026CRIME

Violence and Fires in Savannah: A Mixed Picture for 2025

Savannah’s latest safety report shows that crime is a little higher this year, but some types of incidents have gone down. The police say overall violent crime rose by 3%, mainly because homicides went up to 28 and domestic fights without guns increased. Still, the department cleared 89% of homicide

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Feb 15 2026ENTERTAINMENT

Netflix’s New Show May Fix a Bad Movie

A new series on Netflix, based on Jo Nesbø’s detective books, looks set to correct the mistakes of a 2017 film that missed the mark. The show follows a pattern seen with Prime Video’s hit “Reacher, ” which successfully adapted Lee Child’s novels after earlier movies disappointed fans with casting an

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Feb 15 2026CRIME

Big Money, Big Parties: How a Convicted Man Still Paid for Fame

Jeffrey Epstein, even after his 2008 sex‑crime conviction, kept donating large sums to a Harvard‑linked club called the Hasty Pudding Institute. The club, which runs a social group, plays theater and sings a cappella, accepted yearly gifts of at least $50, 000. Because of these payments, Epstein

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Feb 15 2026ENTERTAINMENT

Night‑time Stars and Speed on the Daytona Strip

The first race of the NASCAR season, the famous 500‑mile event at Daytona, opened with a splash of pop culture. A country singer lit up the front stretch, a stand‑up comic called the engines to life, and a veteran actor drove the pace car as the field lined up. Miranda Lambert, who first burst on

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Feb 15 2026ENTERTAINMENT

Warner’s Big Deal: A Fight That Could Shake the Whole Film World

Warner Bros. Discovery faces a possible showdown over a rumored sale to Netflix, but the real battle may be brewing inside Hollywood itself. Stuart Ford, a key figure in independent filmmaking, warns that the merger would turn creators into “Uber‑style” workers, stripping them of meaningful incom

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Feb 15 2026ENTERTAINMENT

Vegas Strip Lounges: A New Era of Local Music

The Las Vegas Strip once thrived on big-name performers, with jazz legends taking center stage in showrooms while small lounges offered a relaxed backdrop for up-and-coming artists. Back then, music was the heart of every Vegas visit and sessions could stretch into the early morning. Today that wil

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Feb 15 2026BUSINESS

Casey Wasserman’s Agency Faces Sale After Controversial Emails Surface

The sports and entertainment world is in shock after emails from 2003 revealed a flirtatious back‑and‑forth between Casey Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein. The messages were full of sexual innuendo and suggest a personal relationship that could not stay hidd

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Feb 15 2026ENTERTAINMENT

A New Look at a TV Prequel That Turns Expectations Upside‑Down

The show in question flips the usual pattern of backstories. Instead of following the brutal path set by its predecessor, it starts with a kinder tone and shows how the earlier characters found hope after dark times. This twist keeps fans on their toes, proving that even a well‑known series ca

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Feb 15 2026SCIENCE

The Secret Language of Plant Immunity

Plants have a clever chemical called salicylic acid that acts like an alarm system when attackers arrive. In the common lab plant Arabidopsis, scientists first mapped out how this alarm works: a special route called the isochorismate pathway makes salicylic acid, proteins named NPR bind to it, an

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Feb 15 2026HEALTH

Flying Doctors Keep Lesotho’s Mountain Villages Alive

The highlands of Lesotho are a maze of peaks and valleys, making roads rare and travel hard. A team of doctors and nurses flies in helicopters to reach people who otherwise have no way to see a doctor. One of the team’s members, a young dental therapist, has been flying into these remote spots for e

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