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SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) – Hours after the death of Snooty, the world’s oldest known manatee, someone began circulating a Change.org petition calling for a Confederate memorial statue to be replaced with a statue of the beloved manatee.

Subsequently, there is a Confederate memorial statue that stands directly in front of the old courthouse just blocks away from the aquarium where Snooty resided.

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Democrats Propose Rules to Break up Broadband Monopolies.

The Democratic party this week released a new party platform -- one that proposes new rules that could break up existing broadband monopolies and put an end to often-mindless mergers and consolidation in the telecom space.

The proposed rules would also require that regulators look at mergers after they're completed to see if they served the public interest. »

Thomas Spikes now owes his sobriety to none other than the chief of police in this small eastern North Carolina town.

Thomas Spikes credits the police with saving his life and putting him on the road to recovery from his opioid addiction.

Nashville, North Carolina, a town of 5400 offers an unique program to help opioid addicts recover. »

The novelist has been working on The Winds of Winter since 2011, when he completed the fifth novel in the series, A Dance With Dragons.

Since then, HBO’s television adaptation has brought millions more readers to Martin’s stories of dragons, war and royal dynasties.

The seventh television series recently launched, taking the adventures of Martin’s characters far beyond the storylines they have reached in the novels. »