A new exhibit that seeks to explain “the whole story” of the nation’s largest Confederate monument, including the history of the Ku Klux Klan there, is coming to Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, the park’s board said Monday. The exhibit will be developed together with “credible and well-established historians,” the board said in a news release,
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday condemned recent attacks toward the Jewish community after several Jewish people were targeted in cities across the US and abroad as tensions flare over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The recent attacks on the Jewish community are despicable, and they must stop. I condemn this hateful behavior
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Archaeologists have recovered the bodies of victims of former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco who were executed and buried at a cemetery in central Spain. The team of forensic archaeologists and anthropologists are working to find, exhume and identify those who were killed by the Franco regime at the cemetery in the town of Almagro
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Lawyers for the White nationalist who killed nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, will make their case Tuesday that his conviction and death sentence can’t stand because he was too “disconnected from reality” to represent himself. That’s the chief contention laid out in a sprawling 321-page motion filed last year
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HAMMOND, Indiana (KCTV, KSMO) — A 12-year-old boy from Kansas City who went missing on a trip with his family in Indiana has been found dead. Kyrin Carter, who has autism, was last seen May 15 at the Best Western Hotel in Hammond, Indiana. A volunteer kayaker involved
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) Police in Mexico, Missouri, are investigating a shooting Monday night that left a man hurt. According to the Mexico Public Safety Department, the shooting happened around 6:05 p.m. in the 1000 block of West Breckenridge Street. Police said a person at a home on Breckenridge Street shot the 30-year-old man after he
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Nearly 50 years after a Massachusetts teenager was murdered, officials announced Monday that a Catholic priest close to the family was responsible for the crime. On Friday, officials were obtaining an arrest warrant for Richard R. Lavigne, but he died that evening in the hospital, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni’s office said in a statement
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EDGERTON, Kansas (KCTV, KSMO) — Authorities are requesting the public’s help in identifying those responsible for two separate incidents totaling nearly $100,000 in property damage in southern Johnson County. The first incident occurred on April 11 after signs were stolen from a construction project in Edgerton. Additionally, five
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A missing fisherman has been found alive after spending 17 nights in the Oregon wilderness, according to police. Harry Burleigh, from Roseburg, Oregon, was reported missing the evening of May 7 by his wife, Stacy, after he failed to return home from a camping trip in the Toketee area. Burleigh, 69, was originally due to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Some vendors fined by the City of Mobile for selling goods during the Tardy Gras celebrations were refunded on Monday. City revenue workers were at booths on Friday night issuing fines to booths that did not have the “special events” license to do business.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Forget the cicadas infiltrating the Northeast, the Port City is seeing its annual invasion of termites. It is swarming season and they are being reported all over, from Midtown to West Mobile. Mobile is termite territory, just ask Michael and Kathy Halunen. “We were
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President Joe Biden on Monday announced his administration would invest $1 billion in extreme weather preparation ahead of hurricane season. “We’re going to spare no expense, no effort, to keep Americans safe and respond to crises when they arise, and they certainly will,” Biden said during a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CEDARBURG, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Masks will continue to be required in Cedarburg schools, despite a big push by some parents. The Cedarburg School Board voted Monday night, May 24, to leave things exactly the way they are, with masks required indoors and optional for outside activities. This is
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The most severe symptoms that come with MIS-C, the rare but serious Covid-19 related condition, seem to resolve within six months after hospitalization, according to a new small study of patients at one hospital in London. The study published Monday in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health looked at half a year’s worth
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Chris Hemsworth may be Thor, the God of Thunder, but his son worships another superhero. The actor revealed in a funny Instagram post on Tuesday that one of his twin sons, seen from the back and wearing a red cape, really wants to be Superman. Hemsworth wrote: “Holding my little man’s hand and asking him
Continue Reading If you’re planning to fly for Memorial Day or a summer holiday, cinch up your seat belt. Air travel in the United States has recently approached pre-pandemic levels, according to data from the Transportation Security Administration. That means a return to packed flights this summer — along with no more empty middle seats — and
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A year ago, George Floyd’s chilling last words, “I can’t breathe,” sent shock waves around the world. A guilty verdict came down April 20, but Black Americans had no time to celebrate the rare occurrence of a White police officer being convicted of the murder of a Black man. The next day, Andrew Brown Jr.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a swipe at Big Tech on Monday as he signed a hot-button state bill targeting how digital platforms moderate online content. The legislation marks one of the biggest steps yet by a Republican governor to act on allegations of online censorship at the hands of companies such as Facebook, Google
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