THE SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the fire “started in a malfunctioning electric space heater” in an apartment unit spanning the second and third floors of the 19-story building. The door of the apartment was left open, allowing smoke to quickly spread throughout the building, Nigro said. The post 19 dead, including […]
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19 dead, including 9 children, in NYC apartment fire
THE SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the fire “started in a malfunctioning electric space heater” in an apartment unit spanning the second and third floors of the 19-story building. The door of the apartment was left open, allowing smoke to quickly spread throughout the building, Nigro said.
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U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Flip Decision and Put Bill Cosby Back in Jail
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Unwilling to accept its epic loss in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Montgomery County District Attorney has now filed a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. In short, the Montgomery County D.A. asks the United States Supreme Court to throw the Constitution out the window, as it did, to satisfy the #metoo mob,” Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt said in reaction on November 29.
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Have You Seen These Missing Individuals of Color?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The National Newspaper Publishers Association routinely keeps track of missing individuals of color and has endorsed the mission of the Black and Missing Foundation. Derrica and Natalie Wilson started the Black and Missing Foundation in 2008. The nonprofit has continued to raise awareness of missing persons of color and provide vital resources and tools to missing people’s families and friends.
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Help Find Daniel Robinson: Search continues for Missing Geologist, 24
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Unsurprised that there was no updated information from the Buckeye police about the case, the family has sought its own private investigator to proceed with exhausting all efforts and resources to search for the missing geologist. The father, David Robinson II, has taken the helms of locating his son. He recounts receiving a call from his daughter, who lives in Phoenix, on June 23, alerting him in South Carolina that Daniel was missing; she was informed by one of Daniel’s coworkers.
