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GreenStrong t1_jao6t2v wrote

That distillery actually paid a mycologist to research the fungus, who found it was from an unidentified species. (The fungus had been observed and collected before, but misidentified as something else.

They couldn't really do anything about it, but the distillery did spend some real money to see if there was a solution.

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DangerStranger138 t1_jao40nu wrote

>^(Officials from several agencies were searching Friday in Williamsburg for Tina Hicks, 45. Williamsburg is a small city of about 5,300 about 100 miles southeast of Lexington.)
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>^(Whitley County sheriff’s deputies, Williamsburg police and Kentucky State Police were trying to serve Hicks with “multiple outstanding warrants for her arrest,” the sheriff’s office said.)
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>^(No adult family members were willing to say whether or not Hicks was in the house, the sheriff's office said.)
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>^(Deputies found Hicks there, and she was served with) ^(two outstanding Whitley County circuit indictment warrants charging her with possession of meth and drug paraphernalia)^(, as well as four other outstanding district court warrants.)
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>^(The sheriff’s office said the child was visiting family and did not live at the home.)

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CylMaddhatta t1_jao1zqw wrote

Fox affiliates don't have to push Fox News stories if they are not directly owned by Fox.

You're more likely to encounter forced programming from Sinclair than you are from Fox News.

Local stations sign affiliate contracts because they want non-news programming from the network. Local news is typically the biggest source of revenue for a station because they own all the commercial time. While the station owners will, from time to time, push a news story (looking at you Sinclair) most stations want as much editorial control as possible so they can cater to their local market and drive viewership.

So it's not impossible for a Fox News story to get pushed at the local level but it's not the status quo either.

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