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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: It has been just over a year since the first known COVID-19 cases and related shutdowns occurred in the US. In early 2020, everything from grocery shopping to global politics was deemed “unprecedented” and “unpredictable.” However, as the pandemic continues into 2021, precedents have begun to be established, even as unpredictability remains. In the field of bankruptcy, as elsewhere, we are seeing new trends and establishing ne...

Final Call News The purpose of the Disaster Preparedness Workshop during Saviours’ Day 2021 was demonstrated in a short video just before the workshop began. “There is no place on this earth that has received as much calamity from weather as much as the United States of America,” the Honorable Minister Farrakhan declared in the video, as images of floods, snow, fires and scenes of natural disasters flashed across the screen. His (God’s) intention is the total destruction of America, the...

Published March 1, 2021 • Updated on March 1, 2021 at 5:15 pm NBC 5 News A Fort Worth police officer was fired Monday in violation of the departments social media use after a post was discovered with racially insensitive content. On Feb. 5, a Fort Worth officer discovered a racially insensitive social media post published by another officer. Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Internal Affairs began an investigation and f...

Officer Kelly Kujawski was fired Monday, officials said, for a post that violated the department's General Orders related to social media use.

While the department did not detail the contents of Kujawskis post, it did reveal that a fellow officer discovered the post, which prompted the internal investigation. "Internal Affairs quickly began an investigation and concluded that officer Kelly Kujawski was responsible for the racially insensitive post," the release stated. The police department further condemned Kujawskis actions, writing that "[t]he Fort Worth Police Department holds every officer to a very high standard," and that "any ...

Richmond Examiner. In 1866 Pollard published The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates, a justification of the Confederate war effort, prompting the popular use of the term. Even though the phrase “Lost Cause” would not emerge until one year after the war ended, the reverent mythologizing of the Confederate cause began immediately after the war. In 1865 and 1866, Confederate women transformed their wartime soldiers’ aid associations into organizations bent on...

Presidents’ Day is actually Washington’s birthday, recognized by an Act of Congress for government offices in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and for all federal offices in 1885. In 1971, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act to create more three day weekends moved the observance of Washington’s birthday to the third Monday in February. As Abraham Lincoln was also born in February, so many States include him in the observance, and still other States include all the Presidents. George Washing...

"Progressive Reformer" Challenges Richmonds Top Prosecutor Tom Barbour is mounting a primary challenge to Richmonds top prosecutor, criticizing her office for failing to deliver progressive reforms. (Photo courtesy of campaign) Richmond’s top prosecutor is facing a challenge from within her party. Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette McEachin, a Democrat, announced last month that she would seek re-election. Now Tom Barbour, a criminal defense attorney who calls himself a progressive reformer an...

Editor’s note: We have republished this story, originally published in 2015, for Presidents Day. “In central Jerusalem, close by streets named for the medieval Jewish luminary Moses Maimonides and the modern Hebrew writer Peretz Smolenskin, and abutting the American consulate, lies a crooked street named for Abraham Lincoln. When questioned about what he did for the Jewish people to merit a street named for him in Jerusalem, even those Jerusalemites familiar with Lincoln’s biography shake...

One of the intriguing stories uncovered in a search for Carroll County’s Black Civil War soldiers is that of Taneytown’s John L. Coats. While important parts of the story may always remain a mystery, quite a bit has been discovered.