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Brothers Wrongfully Sent To Death Row Awarded $75 Million In Damages KEY POINTS They were released from prison in 2014 after being given full pardon of innocence They brought the civil case against law enforcement members in 2015 Two death-row inmates in North Carolina were awarded $75 million in damages Friday after being wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1983. In a federal civil rights case, the North Carolina Jury decided that the intellectually disabled half-brothers Henry McCollum and Leon Brown should be awarded $31 million each for spending decad...

Japan buys 122,180 tonnes food wheat via tender Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture bought 122,180 tonnes of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada, and Australia in a regular tender. Japan, the world’s sixth-biggest wheat importer, keeps a tight grip on imports of the country’s second-most important staple behind rice and buys the majority of the grain for milling via tenders typically issued thrice a month. Details are as follows (in tonnes): COUNTRY

  VANCOUVER -- A Vancouver bakery and eatery that closed its doors early on in the pandemic is now thriving. Business was up 25 per cent last year despite COVID-19. “I just had this drive that we should be pivoting into more of an online space,” said Janna Bishop, Flourist's co-founder. Flourist is a popular neighbourhood bakery on Vancouver’s Commercial Street and when it pivoted to online on Shopify, Bishop says sales boomed. “We just hit it,” she said. A new annual economic impact report done for Shopify by Deloitte shows that the economic impact of Shopify businesses on t...

COLORADO HIGHLIGHTS: As of March 1, Colorado growers intend to plant 1.28 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2021, down 140,000 acres, or 10 percent from last year’s plantings, according to the March 1st Agricultural Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Sorghum planting intentions total 410,000 acres, up 40,000 acres from last year. Growers intend to plant 49,000 acres of barley in 2021, down 4,000 acres from last year’s actual plantings. Winter wheat seeded last fall for harvest in 2021 is estimated at 2.0...

The COVID-19 pandemic broke out again in many provinces and cities before Tết, greatly affecting the blood supply to hospitals.