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Wicker Park in Highland was filled Friday morning with demonstrators wearing orange shirts for the first 24-hour End Gun Violence Walk hosted by the local organization Circle of Love.

Pam Newsom and her mom joined more than 75 people in walking with Hammond-based Group Circle of Love’s inaugural End Gun Violence Walk Friday at Wicker Memorial Park in Highland. Having cofounded her own support group after her son Iyuan Yarbrought’s March 2016 murder in which he was killed by man who’d dated the woman he was seeing, doing something — anything — makes all the difference in getting to the next day.

Circle of Love provides resources and community to those who have lost a loved one to homicide or gun violence.

"In my case, I didnt get the total justice that I was looking for, so by helping other families, it helps me."

For the first time since 2017, Lucio Tan-owned Philippines Airlines turned a profit last year – roughly $86 million in unaudited net income – a tremendous feat considering the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic the past two years.

Legacy carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) said on Monday it has partnered with tech company NTT Data Philippines to implement SAP solutions in the airline. The partnership will help “modernize the company’s key business processes—finance, procurement, supply chain, and human resources,” Nilo Thaddeus Rodriguez, the airline’s CFO, said in a statement,…