If youre watching TV or listening to the radio at 2 p.m., expect to hear a test of the new nationwide alert of the Emergency Alert System.
According to the Federal Emergency Management System, the test plays a key role in ensuring the nation is prepared for any type of hazard, and that the U.S. public can receive critical and vital information should it ever be needed.
Additional information from FEMA on the test:
It will be conducted Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 2:00 PM EST.
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Holiday shopping kicks off next Tuesday for Floridians, and spending will be up, according to AAA.
Half of the holiday shopping in Florida will be conducted between Nov. 15 and Dec. 14, up from 46 percent in 2010.
More importantly for retailers, the Fourth Annual AAA Consumer Pulse Holiday Shopping survey projects that 67 percent of Floridians will spend between $251 and $750 on gifts this year.Last year, 58 percent of Floridians expected to spend between those numbers.
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The police union wont be able to run its president for top cop in Fort Myers, as voters rejected the idea of making the chief an elected position.
More than 60 percent of the voters in the Southwest Florida city on Tuesday decided to keep Chief Doug Baker in the position hes held for three years.
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Liberals and conservatives each scored victories in Ohio Tuesday, with voters overturning restrictions on collective bargaining by public employees and opposing the Obamacare requirement to buy health insurance.
Labor unions from around the country spent more than $25 million to overturn a state law that barred government workers from collectively negotiating pensions and health-care benefits. The law, championed by Republican Gov. John Kasich, also banned public-sector strikes, scrapped binding arbitration and eliminated annual pay raises for teachers.
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Moviegoers will have the chance to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film version of the groundbreaking Broadway musical "West Side Story" with a one-night-only screening in theaters nationwide.(www.fathomevents.com)
Cities and counties would be barred from enacting transportation or school impact fees until mid-2015 under a measure filed Tuesday by a Jacksonville Republican.
Sponsored by Rep. Mike Weinstein, the bill (HB 603) would prevent the levying of concurrency fees for roads and schools for development permitted before July 1, 2015 and completed before July 1, 2016.
"I'm trying to help find ways to motivate potential projects and developments to get them off the starting line," said Weinstein, adding that he intends to get a Senate sponsor within the next several days.
WASHINGTON -- A few millennia from now, when archaeologists from an ascendant Brazil or Turkey or wherever sift the shards of American civilization and find the ruins of the Big House in Ann Arbor, Mich., they will wonder why a 109,901-seat entertainment venue was attached to an institution of higher education.
Reiterating his rejection of sexual harassment allegations, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain said, "I have never acted inappropriately with anyone. Period."
Speaking at a press conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., Cain addressed separate claims leveled by former National Restaurant Association workers Sharon Bialek and Karen Kraushaar.
Cain said he did not even recall Bialek when he saw her appear on television Monday with her attorney, Gloria Allred.
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A new website -- NotMittRomney.com -- is tapping a vein of Republican discontent with the party's putative front-runner. From snarky videos to searing op-ed articles, the site, launched on Sunday, purveys all things anti-Romney.
"We got tens of thousands of hits [Monday] and it's generating some of the most irrational hate mail I've ever seen," said Ali A. Akbar, who co-founded the site with right-wing blogger John Hawkins.
