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Month: November 2019

Indiantown Gap National Cemetery needs sponsors so every veteran’s grave has a wreath this December

Click here for updates on this story     INDIANTOWN GAP NATIONAL CEMETERY, Pa. (WPMT) — Volunteers with Indiantown Gap National Cemetery say they need your help, and time is running out. They say they need approximately 20,000 more wreath sponsors for all 41,000 veterans’ graves at the cemetery. Every December, volunteers gently place wreaths on veterans’

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Family sues Hoover, Alabama, and the officer who killed Emantic Bradford Jr. at a mall on Thanksgiving

A year after a Hoover, Alabama, police officer killed Emantic “E.J.” Bradford Jr. at a mall on Thanksgiving, Bradford’s family is suing the yet-to-be-named police officer for wrongful death. Bradford’s mother, April Pipkins, filed the lawsuit against the unnamed policeman and the city of Hoover Friday, alleging that the officer did not follow his training,

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Nearly half of this year’s class of US Rhodes Scholars are first-generation Americans

The Rhodes Trust has announced the diverse class of American students who will study at the University of Oxford beginning next year as Rhodes Scholars. Collectively, the 32 winners mark the third consecutive year that the majority are minorities, and nearly half are first-generation Americans, according to the trust. “This year’s American Rhodes Scholars—independently elected

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