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Treasure Coast nonprofits dig into local history to celebrate Black History Month Lamaur Stancil, Treasure Coast Newspapers Much of the national attention for Black History Month goes to cities in Alabama or Oklahoma, the sites of major events in the civil rights movement.  On the Treasure Coast, residents are looking there too, but also locally as they celebrate Black pioneers who entered the swampland before it was a state, worshipped in Vero Beach and sold paintings along Old Dixie Highway throughout South Florida.  "I go to the Gomez Pioneer Cemetery in Hobe Sound and...

For Immediate Release, January 14, 2021 Contact: Sarah Thomas, Conserve Southwest Utah, (435) 590-8172, sarah@conserveswu.org Randi Spivak, Center for Biological Diversity, (310) 779-4894, rspivak@biologicaldiversity.org Trump Administration Flouts Law to Push Utah Highway Through Protected Conservation Lands ST. GEORGE, Utah— The Trump administration issued a decision today to allow construction of the Northern Corridor Highway, a controversial four-lane highway through the protected Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in southwest Utah. The U.S. Fish and Wildli...

Let you down? >> they abandoned us. >> reporter: and where vera once lay, a shrine now remains. to john lee, vera's memorial is an emblem of lingering grief. a memento of neglect. >> i love you. >> love you too. >> reporter: a close friend of vera smith helped john bury vera that day. then, like so many others, she left new orleans for good, returning to visit this week for the first time since the storm. >> we'll never forget you, miss vera, no matter how many storms, no matter how many years. we'll never forget you, miss vera. we love you. rest in peace. >> amen. >> rest in peace. >> reporte...

Let you down? >> they abandoned us. >> reporter: and where vera once lay, a shrine now remains. to john lee, vera's memorial is an emblem of lingering grief. a memento of neglect. >> i love you. >> love you too. >> reporter: a close friend of vera smith helped john bury vera that day. then, like so many others, she left new orleans for good, returning to visit this week for the first time since the storm. >> we'll never forget you, miss vera, no matter how many storms, no matter how many years. we'll never forget you, miss vera. we love you. rest in peace. >> amen. >> rest in peace. >> reporte...

party opponent endorsed by palin. and with the congressional elections now just 69 days away, we asked jon karl to join us tonight and tell us what signal yesterday's vote sent. good evening, jon. >> reporter: they are still counting votes in alaska, but already, sarah palin is calling it a miracle on ice. it could be the upset of the year. joe miller is a hard-line conservative and until now, a political unknown. but with almost all the votes counted, he's ahead of alaska senator lisa murkowski in the states republican primary. >> alaskans recognize that, look this is a heavy handed...