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Baldwin Co. and its municipalities upset over $130 + million in late FEMA reimbursements

Click here for updates on this story     BALDWIN COUNTY, Alabama (WALA) — Baldwin County and its municipalities said they’re still owed more than $100-million-dollars from FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. County and city leaders met Thursday morning, April 1, 2021 to discuss the problem and decide what the next step is. “They are

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WCU’s digital Black history collection preserves oral history of local African-Americans

Click here for updates on this story     CULLOWHEE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Recordings of local African-Americans made in the 1980s have been upgraded at Western Carolina University. University leaders want the collection preserved so they can better teach race relations. The recordings at Hunter Library at WCU have now been transferred from analog to digital

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‘Two bullets is enough’

Dawit was watching television at a relative’s one-room apartment in Axum, a historic city in Ethiopia’s war-torn, northern Tigray region, in early March when a news bulletin flashed up on the screen. Graphic, unverified footage had surfaced of a mass killing near Dawit’s hometown of Mahibere Dego, in a mountainous area of central Tigray. In

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Suspect in mass shooting at Orange, California, business complex knew the victims, police say

The suspect who police say killed four people, including a 9-year-old boy, at an Orange, California, business complex Wednesday had professional and personal relationships with the victims, police said. “The preliminary motive is believed to be related to a business and personal relationship which existed between the suspect and all of the victims,” Orange Police

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