‍Region 14 Murrow Awards Winners Announced

The sargassum seaweed blob once again arriving on Florida beaches is here and carrying a passenger: flesh-eating bacteria. I guess I'm not going to the beach anytime soon. (WPEC-TV/West Palm Beach)

Simple question: do you haggle when you shop? Everyone does for some things like cars, but some people haggle over everything, under the principle of "if you don't ask, you don't get." Do you ask? What's your success record? (Wall Street Journal)

This one's for you old-timer former music jocks: a 1970s prize pig has revealed how he and his brother always won, and it involved a quirk in the phone system of the time that allowed him to dial the partial number, freeze everyone else out, and then complete the dialing to be caller one. Cheating? Sort of, but it's been a half-century, so now it can be told. (San Diego Union-Tribune)