WASHINGTON, D.C.—A group of white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday evening, bearing American flags and mildly menacing plastic shields while marching to the beat of a snare drum down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But after chanting aggressively about their plans to “reclaim America,” their intended show of force stalled spectacularly when they lost their ride. While the group had marched through the city with threatening chants about their plan to “reclaim America,” by the end of the night it was not even clear how they intended to reclaim their U-Haul. The rally by more than 100 members of the “Patriot Front” group, held just blocks from the White House, sparked fear among many bystanders and immediately attracted the attention of law enforcement, who shadowed the group to apparently prevent any clashes from erupting. Members wore a uniform: white gators, sunglasses, blue jackets, khaki pants, and brown boots and hats. Some donned …
DNA leads police to identity of teen in 1980 Nevada cold case
The body of a teenager found dead outside Las Vegas has gone unidentified for 41 years until last month when DNA helped uncover her name. The victim, who had been known only as "Jane Arroyo Grande Doe," was recently identified as Tammy Terrell through investigative genetic genealogy, which uses DNA testing to trace relationships between people to determine potential relatives of an unidentified person, Henderson police said. Terrell, 17, was last seen Sept. 28, 1980, with two unidentified people at a Roswell, New Mexico, restaurant. Law enforcement officials believe Terrell was planning to make her way to California before she was killed. Her body was found about a week later, on Oct. 5, by a driver in the desert area near Arroyo Grande Boulevard and Lake Mead Parkway in Henderson, Nevada. The Clark County Coroner’s Office ruled her death a homicide. Henderson is a city just outside Las Vegas. Previous attempts to identify Terrell's body were unsuccessful for decades. …
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Woman missing for nearly a month found safe, San Diego police say
A 20-year-old woman whose family had not heard from her for nearly month is safe, California police said. Investigators with the San Diego Police Department met with Lateche Norris in person on Saturday and confirmed that she was safe and not a victim of a crime. Norris thanked the public for their concern and asked for her privacy, police said. Her mother, Cheryl Walker, told Dateline last month that she never went more than a couple of days without speaking to her daughter and became worried after Norris did not call back following an argument with her boyfriend. Her family reported her missing on Nov. 9, police said. …
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Lawrence Weiner, Artist Whose Medium Was Language, Dies at 79
Lawrence Weiner, who used language as the material for a vast body of visual art that operated outside the boundaries of poetry and aphorism in a vernacular all its own, sometimes Delphic and generally hopeful about the human condition, died on Thursday at his home and studio in Manhattan. He was 79. The Marian Goodman Gallery , which had represented him for more than three decades, announced the death. The gallery did not cite a cause, but Mr. Weiner had been battling cancer for several years. A pioneer of the Conceptual art movement (a description he spurned, preferring to call himself simply a sculptor), Mr. Weiner came of age in the 1960s, during art’s radical pivot away from objects and toward ideas and actions as the basis for a kind of work that shared substantial ground with philosophy, linguistics and anticapitalist politics. More than any other artist of that generation, Mr. Weiner settled on words — stenciled on walls and floors, inscribed on manhole covers, printed on …
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2nd Stacey Abrams governor bid sees new tests, intrigues
2 ATLANTA (AP) — Stacey Abrams announced a long-awaited second run for Georgia governor this week, but with Democrats facing a sour national environment and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp facing challenges within his own party, the 2022 campaign will look different from 2018. Abrams' narrow loss, highlighted by her claims that Kemp used his prior post as secretary of state to unfairly push voters away, vaulted her to national stardom in a year when Democrats nationwide capitalized on then-President Donald Trump's unpopularity. Abrams' contention that Georgia could be dragged into the Democratic column by focusing on registering and mobilizing infrequent Democratic-leaning voters was validated in 2020, when Joe Biden won Georgia by about 12,000 votes and in 2021, when Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won runoffs to deliver control of the U.S. Senate to Democrats. But the political tide appears to be running against Biden and other Democrats, with low …
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New Orleans: Push to rename Lee boulevard after Toussaint
6 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A member of the New Orleans city council is pushing to change a street currently named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and replace it with one the city's most famous musicians, Allen Toussaint, who died in 2015. Councilmember Jared C. Brossett introduced an ordinance to rename the street that goes through the northern part of the city near Lake Pontchartrain after Toussaint. Toussaint was a songwriter, producer, pianist and performer whose decades-long career helped make such hits as “Working in the Coal Mine,” and ″Southern Nights." “The City of New Orleans should prioritize celebrating our culture bearers, our diversity, and everything that makes our City special, not those who worked to tear us apart and represent a horrible history of racism that we are still dealing with today," said Brossett in a news release announcing the effort. "Allen Toussaint is a New Orleans native and world-renowned musician. …
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Opinion: ‘It is time for another revolution’ — readers on abortion and a post-Roe world
For years, letter writers have lamented or yearned for the possibility (mostly the former) that Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision that found the Constitution protects a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, would be overturned. At least at the federal level — and certainly not in several states, where conservative lawmakers have pushed the limit of what abortion restrictions are constitutional — the letters were mostly addressing abstractions: What might happen if enough antiabortion justices were appointed and a state law clearly meant to force the question on Roe made it to the Supreme Court? That’s no longer just a possibility. On Wednesday, the justices heard oral arguments on the Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a deadline that flouts the viability standards set in Roe and the 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. The justices indicated they were likely to uphold the Mississippi law. So this week, for the first time in a …
Letters: Bay Area’s racist housing patterns are obvious. Don’t ignore them
A recent article pointed out a strong geographic pattern in Bay Area rent changes during the pandemic, finding increases in the north and east, and decreases in the west and south. Yet the article excluded a pertinent and paramount point of consideration: race. Since postwar suburbanization, racial segregation has defined the development of cities and labor. Whites migrated to the suburbs, enabled by interstate highway development and car culture that allowed long commutes; poor people of color concentrated in urban centers, providing essential services during industrialization. This unmentioned segregation is the underlying force behind housing settlement patterns. While the article points out the impact COVID-19 has had on industry-centered areas (e.g. Palo Alto), the continuing rent increases in primarily residential, affluent, white areas (e.g. Rohnert Park) expose a pattern less related to job losses, and more related to racial disparity. With racialized individuals …
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Your Guide To Christmas Tree Farms In The Naugatuck Area
0 Seasonal & Holidays Many local Christmas tree providers are taking COVID-19 precautions to make sure you and your family have a happy holiday. Alfred Branch , Patch Staff Posted Reply NAUGATUCK, CT— As the nation recovers from the coronavirus pandemic and looks back on the hardship of last year's holiday season — which involved a lot of social distancing — families in 2021 will reunite and hunt for the right Christmas tree this year. Some 350 million are growing in all 50 U.S. states, and at least 25 million of them are cut and sold each year. Last year, the National Christmas Tree Association developed a guide including recommendations and best practices for Christmas tree sellers to follow. They include frequently sanitizing items and areas such as hand saws, tree cart handles, counter-tops, door handles and restrooms. Is a real Christmas tree on your wish list this year? Here's a selection of trusted …
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Police apprehend parents of suspect in Michigan high school shooting
The Detroit Police announced early Saturday morning that the force apprehended the parents of the suspect in the deadly shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan. Detroit Police Chief James E. White said that law enforcement had captured James and Jennifer Crumbley in a building on the city's east side, according to a statement and video posted by the department on Twitter. "Detroit Police Chief James E. White confirms arrest of James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of alleged Oxford shooter Ethan Crumbley, 15, on the city’s east side," the post read. ADVERTISEMENT "We continue to extend our deepest condolences to the the community of Oxford. #OneDetroit." NOW: Detroit Police Chief James E. White confirms arrest of James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of alleged Oxford shooter Ethan Crumbley, 15, on the city’s east side. #OneDetroit pic.twitter.com/QAoiolvlFf — Detroit Police News (@detroitpolice) December 4, 2021 The news comes just hours after Oakland County …
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