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Details: Written by WILL WEISSERT and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press; Published: 16 April 2021

The British Royal family will attend the funeral of Prince Philip Saturday at Windsor mourning a great grandfather who was also a unique personality whose informality sometimes got him into trouble

Details: Written by SARA BURNETT and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press; Published: 16 April 2021

Several legal experts said Friday that they don’t think Stillman could be charged under criteria established by a landmark 1989 Supreme Court ruling on the use of force by police, though another said prosecutors might see enough evidence to justify an involuntary manslaughter charge and let a jury decide guilt or innocence

Details: Written by BOTWC staff associated press; Published: 16 April 2021

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"I have been worrying about how I was going to pay my house off. I am grateful for what God has done and has led them to do for me,” Hamilton told reporters

Details: Written by CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 16 April 2021

Chief Randal Taylor of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department speaks at a news conference following a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Friday, April 16, 2021. A gunman killed several people and wounded others before taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

A gunman killed several people and wounded others before taking his own life in a late-night attack at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said.

Details: Written by By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press; Published: 16 April 2021

(AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

The governor urged people to get vaccinated and to socialize and conduct business outside as much as possible to help slow further spread of the virus

Details: Written by By JULIE WATSON and ANITA SNOW Associated Press; Published: 15 April 2021

AP Photo/Julio Cortez

Their innovative messaging has grown out of urgency: The virus has hit Black and Latino people disproportionately hard, yet their vaccination rates are less than half that of white people.

Details: Written by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent; Published: 15 April 2021

Count Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

As federal lawmakers ponder H.R. 40, legislation led by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) that forms a commission to study reparations, some U.S. municipalities have moved to address systemic racism and forms of redress to African Americans.

Details: Written by MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press; Published: 12 April 2021

Friends and family comfort Katie Wright, right. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP)

“I'll Tase you! I'll Tase you! Taser! Taser! Taser!” the officer is heard shouting on her bodycam footage released at a news conference. She draws her weapon after the man breaks free from police outside his car and gets back behind the wheel.

Details: Written by MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 12 April 2021

James E. Bostic, a former Clemson board member and the first African American to earn a doctorate at the school, talks to vistors at the Calhoun family plot at Woodland Cemetery in Clemson, S.C. on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Michelle Liu)

Researchers have identified more than 600 previously unmarked African American graves, some overbuilt by the marked graves of white people, dating back to the early 1800s

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 12 April 2021

Friends and family comfort Katie Wright, right, while she speaks briefly to news media near where the family says her son Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by police Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP)

Wright, a Black man, died after being shot by police in a Minneapolis suburb during a traffic stop and crashing his car several blocks away

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