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Convicted of the crime and sentenced to life without parole: 23-year-old Tevin Raeshaun Johnson. Reports indicate that Johnson befriended Morris then followed her to the victim's motel room. A witness claimed Johnson was not welcomed by his victim. [ I was unable to uncover any white-on-black homicides during February. Please contact me if you are aware of one. Federal government data on inter-racial crime is extremely opaque. Statista.com reveals that in 2019 there were 5,787 white homicide victims and 7,484 black victims. In both cases, the race of the killer(s) was unspecified, but most bl...

Walk into a decades-old Filipino bakery in Virginia Beach, at Angie’s or Glory’s or Laguna, and the most thunderingly popular item will be something you’ll never see in Manila: a football of lightly sweet and airy bread, its insides blooming with gooey mozzarella cheese and the fire-engine red of thin-sliced pepperoni.

Ann Hoffman of Bradenton looks skyward Feb. 16 as she holds a section of the 850-foot COVID-19 Ribbon Memorial on the beach near Magnolia Avenue in Anna Maria. Hoffman’s older brother, Stephen Newlon, died March 30, 2020. He was the third known Manatee County resident to succumb to COVID-19. Islander Photo: Amy V.T. Moriarty People step up to a ribbon of ribbons Feb. 16 to take part in a COVID-19 memorial on the shore in Anna Maria. Each ribbon represents a Floridian who died of COVID-19. Islander Photo: Connie Wolgast People step up to a ribbon of ribbons Feb. 16 to take part in a COVID-19...

UW-Stevens Point marks Native American burial site on campus January 1, 2021 GMT STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — A memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus now marks the land as a gravesite for Native Americans buried there in 1863. Karen Ann Hoffman helped lead the effort and told Wisconsin Public Radio it’s a “hard-won first step.” By 1863, hundreds of Indigenous people of several tribes were living in a camp in what is now Stevens Point. The members of the group were essentially refugees displaced by American settlers. As many as 100 Indigenous people died when the s...

A memorial marker will be placed on the UWSP campus to acknowledge the indigenous people buried there. According to a press release from UWSP, recent historical research shows the campus encompasses what was a Native American camp and burial ground of the Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Ojibwe and Potawatomi. In the 1860's, Scarlet Fever devastated the diverse group, and the mass burial is located on what is now UWSP. The memorial marker will be installed during a ceremony at noon on Thursday, December 17, and is one step in acknowledgement, according to UWSP Chancellor Bernie Patterson. It will be in p...