Jeff "Swede" Swedenhjelm has made it safely to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he is being prepped for surgery."It's a Christmas miracle," said his daughter, Lyric.Swede fell 33 feet Dec. 18 while chasing a monkey across a rooftop in Bali after it stole his favorite Pittsburgh Steelers cap. He was diagnosed with severe damage to his spinal cord and is paralyzed from the chest down. [...]

These Florida lotteries were drawn Tuesday:Fantasy 5: 01-04-08-20-23Lucky Money: 05-13-31-40, Lucky Ball 2, estimated jackpot: $2 millionMega Millions: 10-12-20-38-41, Mega Ball 25, Megaplier 4, estimated jackpot $277 millionPowerball: estimated jackpot $337 millionPick 2 Evening: 9-7Pick 2 Midday: 6-5Pick 3 Evening: 9-5- [...]

Despite the president's dismal approval ratings and lethargic legislative achievements, he remains profoundly popular here in the Appalachian Mountains, a region so badly battered by the collapse of the coal industry it became the symbolic heart of Trump's white working-class base.

Although it's impossible to know which donation pushed the Empty Stocking Fund over its goal of $100,000, it seems almost certain that it came in on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.It might have been the $10 donation from a Fort Walton Beach man or the anonymous $1,000 donation made as a tribute to a Biblical verse. [...]

Across Northwest Florida the coldest temps will dip into the low-30s on New Year's Day night.

FLOROSA — A woman and her 15 cats were burned out of their home early Tuesday morning.The Florosa Volunteer Fire Department responded to the home on Austin Court, where they found the woman in her front yard.She'd been sleeping in the room where a space heater ignited some items that were stored too close to it, according to Florosa Fire Chief Mark Lee.Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire quickly before it spread to other rooms. The fire did burn [...]

“If anybody knows anything I would ask them to come forward. We all need closure here, whether good or bad, we wanna know.”

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Former President Barack Obama told Prince Harry in an interview broadcast Wednesday that people in leadership roles must be careful in their use of social media and warned against spending too much time immersed in the internet at the expense of the world outside.