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NEW YORK — Two men who have spent a combined half-century in prison for murder saw their names cleared in Manhattan on Monday, but only one walked free. At back-to-back hearings, District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office asked two Manhattan judges to vacate the decades-old murder convictions of Wayne Gardine and Jabar Walker after separate reinvestigations with the Legal Aid Society and The ...

Two men who have spent a combined half-century in prison for murder saw their names cleared in Manhattan on Monday, but only one walked free. At back-to-back hearings, District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office asked two Manhattan judges to vacate the decades-old murder convictions of Wayne Gardine and Jabar Walker after separate reinvestigations with the Legal Aid Society and The Innocence ...

Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were convicted in an era of crime and corruption that has created a wave of exonerations years later.

A Mississippi town has canceled its annual Christmas parade because of an increase in shootings

A Mississippi town has canceled its annual Christmas parade because of an increase in shootings.

CRAWFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi town has canceled its annual Christmas parade because of an increase in shootings. “They’re shooting like 30 or 40 rounds at one time. That’s what I call a war,” Crawford Mayor Willie Parson told WCBI-TV. Authoriti...

A Mississippi town has canceled its annual Christmas parade because of an increase in shootings.

A Mississippi town has canceled its annual Christmas parade because of an increase in shootings.

A Mississippi town has canceled its annual Christmas parade because of an increase in shootings

One town has canceled its holiday plans due to growing concerns about gun violence.