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As we navigate higher prices for everything from school supplies to groceries, the cost of entertaining ourselves has also gone up. Each week we will take a look at some of the deals to be found and highlight things happening around the Tampa Bay area for $10 or less. Here are some options this week: $6 Sundays at history museum: You can make it a historic summer with $6 admission to the St. ...

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WASHINGTON — If Rep. Madison Cawthorn doesn’t turn in his campaign finance report by Sunday, federal election regulators will deem it so late that there’s no hope of receiving it. And the regulatory agency has already put Cawthorn on notice that he’s racking up a hefty fine for taking his time. Debbie Chacona, assistant staff director with the Federal Election Commission, addressed the matter ...

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If Rep. Madison Cawthorn doesn’t turn in his campaign finance report by Sunday, federal election regulators will deem it so late that there’s no hope of receiving it. And the regulatory agency has already put Cawthorn on notice that he’s racking up a hefty fine for taking his time. Debbie Chacona, assistant staff director with the Federal Election Commission, addressed the matter with Cawthorn ...

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Aug. 10—SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN) — Students with special needs such as dyslexia and autism often find it tough to make the transition to university, said experts. They were speaking to The Straits Times about gaps for special needs students in higher education settings who do not receive as much support as those in primary and secondary schools. Special needs students struggle with ...

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The fragile little fish that swim around in dark tanks in a lab are the last hope for their kind. The lab director who oversees their care, Tien-Chieh Hung, explained that when the Delta smelt captives are young, scientists at the UC Davis Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory put snails in the black interiors of the tanks as a slow-moving mollusk cleaning crew. The snails must do the work ...

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When Courtney Cecale moved into her North Texas house in the summer of 2020, she was in for a heat shock. The plants in her car wilted and died before she could move them into the house. Her two black Labradors, Carl and Tony, got sick. “There were just very small, minor things that, when you start to look at them all together, were a bit worrying,” Cecale recalled. Now, almost two years since ...

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Courtney Cecale, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Texas, has collected over 400 personal stories from North Texans about how the summer heat impacts their lives. Here are some of their experiences. The stories are presented anonymously because they are being used as part of Cecale’s research. Heat at home One Texan mentioned struggling to fall asleep as a ...

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Florida university professors are facing unprecedented challenges as a spate of new laws could soon crack down on research, discourse on race and gender identity and create an environment in which employees feel their political beliefs are being scrutinized at the risk of losing tenure. The measures are backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature and are seen as just the ...

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Aug. 9—COBLESKILL — Coty Rulison, a 27-year-old Gloversville native who lives with Asperger's, ADHD and mild schizophrenia, has dreamed of going to SUNY Cobleskill since he was in middle school. A gardener and lover of the outdoors, he's interested in finding work with the Department of Environmental Conservation or as a park ranger specializing in forestry, and he's always been drawn to the ...

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The Clark County coroner’s office said Tuesday that human remains found at Lake Mead National Recreation Area this weekend might be from the same set of bones discovered 12 days earlier. “At this time, the investigation into these remains includes working to determine whether the two sets of remains are from the same person or not,” the coroner’s office said. Grisly discoveries at the lake — ...