Published April 25. 2021 11:24PM | Updated April 25. 2021 11:26PM
Wes Parnell, New York Daily News
Fifteen people were shot in New York City Saturday, compared to just one person on the same day a year ago, police said.
And the city has seen 395 people shot so far this year through Saturday compared to 238 people shot by the same time last year, police said.
The startling numbers show that shootings have not slowed down as COVID-19 restrictions loosen across the city.
Eugene O’Donnell, a former NYPD cop who is now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the gunplay has less to do with the pandemic and more to do with changes in criminal justice policy.
The Union Flag was a newspaper in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way at the time.
April 24, 1890: According to The Comet, âGov. R.L. Taylor returned last week from Boston and New York where he had been in the interest of East Tennessee. He and C.S. Brice and other millionaires are interested in a scheme that means big things for this section.â
April 24, 1898: With a dateline of Johnson City, the Chattanooga Daily Times reported, âThe stockholders of the old Johnson City Ice Factory are making efforts to have the plant started at an early day. The plant had to close several years ago on account of not being patronized by home people.â
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Timbaland and
Swizz Beatz, has usually been in “battle” form with two performers playing their songs back to back. D’Angelo stated as he walked on stage, “For those of you who said this would be one of the first solo
Vezuz’s ever, well, you were right.”
After over 50 minutes of DJ Scratch warming up the virtual audience, playing a wide array of classics from
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly and
El DeBarge to
Usher, Jodeci and Notorious B.I.G., D’Angelo emerged and positioned himself behind a Fender Rhodes piano as he greeted the audience.
D’Angelo then introduced Harrold, who has played in his touring band, The Vanguard. Harrold played his trumpet as D’Angelo sang and played Rhodes to open the night with some positive energy. From there, DJ Scratch launched into playing a medley of cuts from D’Angelo’s 1995 debut
They were saved from being killed for meat.
More than 50 of the animals arrived Friday at John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens.
They were rescued from China where they were headed for slaughterhouses.
This is the culmination of a year-long rescue mission.
A group called No dogs Left Behind coordinated everything, including new homes for the animals. What these dogs have been through is incredible, they re resilient. They re incredible and they re just waiting for their families, the families that have been waiting for them for almost a year now for them to come home, No Dogs Left Behind s Jeffrey Beri said.