Category Archives: Americana News

Friday will mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on this nation. That day stands as one of the very darkest in our long history. Thousands of people lost their lives at the World Trade Center in New York, at the Pentagon, and in a plane that crashed in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania. […]

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Ismael Laguna, one of five Panamanian boxers inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, died Tuesday, TMZ reported. He was 83. “Panamanian boxing is in mourning,” the sports organization stated in a social media post. The cause of death was not immediately reported, although Laguna had been hospitalized in recent days. Affectionately known as […]

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A woman is dead after the Tesla she was in slammed into scaffolding in Midtown Manhattan on the morning of Sep. 9.

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Football season is around the corner, and a heroic waiter delivered a life-saving tackle worthy of an NFL tryout. A tense moment when an infuriated Ohio lawyer stormed into a restaurant and tried to shoot his ex-wife at point-blank range was captured on surveillance. When Matthew Exton, 43, pulled the trigger, the gun jammed because […]

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Stephen A. Smith continues to soft launch his political career, and in the latest example, he provided a scathing story about the way taxes in California work – and even directed a message towards current state governor Gavin Newsom. For years, the sports personality that seems to be on ESPN 24/7 has entertained running for political office, and maybe even president. Polls have long shown that Stephen A. Smith could be competitive as Democratic presidential nominee. That being said, those […]

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An emergency inflatable slide was deployed on the Qatar-gifted Air Force One moments before Donald Trump boarded the aircraft. Images of the slide quickly went viral, sparking questions of whether there was a security threat. Trump cleared the air, telling reporters that the slide was deployed as a routine check-up. “They’re checking the slide over […]

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Justice for HeeHaw. Outrage is growing after a police officer in Rockmart, Georgia fatally shot a family’s beloved pet miniature donkey named HeeHaw in what the officer claims was self defense. It all started on August 30 when the Cedartown Police Department officer Trenton Garner, a K-9 unit and a bloodhound team entered the pasture of Ellsbury Riding and Farm while reportedly searching for a missing 12 year old. According to a report from Garner: “As we were tacking down […]

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The controversial YouTube star pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge yesterday, Sep. 8. 

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Garth Brooks made a lot of fans happy with his “Yukon Jack” pop up show in Denver, Colorado last week. And if it were up to him, he would have done back to back shows under the alias if the security at the bar and local authorities would have allowed it. Brooks is currently out on the road for the first time in a long time for his Blame It All On My Roots Tour. The “Friends In Low Places” singer has […]

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John Fogerty with Steve Winwood at Tanglewood on September 6, 2026 Legacy artist and music legend Steve Winwood humbly took the historic Tanglewood stage last night and launched into Traffic’s cheerful piano instrumental “Glad” to put patrons in a jovial mood on this final Labor Day weekend performance. Winwood played songs from his three respective […]

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