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Holiday, cities all over the country are marking the day with parades, performances, and in a growing number of places, pageants. while beauty pageants have long faced criticism, organizers say the juneteenth pageants are less about looks but more about teaching them the history they don't flern school. we heard from the national miss juneteenth. here's what she said about her experience. >> the juneteenth pageant is not just about beauty. it's about the needs that you're going to need in life about your etiquette, how you speak, just being part of the pageant, you're part of something that's ...

Virginia State Police are investigating the shooting death of a Black man by a Culpeper County sheriff’s deputy. The Culpepper Star-Exponent reports that Donald Francis Hairston was shot after police were called for a welfare check to his home in a rural neighborhood. State police said that Hairston shot a gun and pointed it at deputies before he was fatally shot. State police told the newspaper on Friday that they had no new information to release. A local pastor said Hairston was a U.S. Army veteran. Rev. Adrian Sledge told the newspaper on Friday that Hairston struggled with issues from ...

By ALLISON BROPHY CHAMPION Culpeper Star-Exponent The 44-year-old man killed by a Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office deputy at his house on Thursday morning was an Army veteran who served honorably, according to a local pastor. Donald Francis Hairston, an African-American, was shot to death by police called out for a welfare check to the home on Horseshoe Drive. According to Virginia State Police, the agency in charge of the investigation, Hairston shot a gun and pointed it at deputies before he was fatally shot. This is the second fatal shooting in three months by CCSO deputie...