Detroit's Avalon International Breads is permanently closing its flagship location in Midtown this weekend and will transition into a new space inside Jolly Pumpkin, the company said on Tuesday.
Helen Zia's childhood memories of events on Aug 28, 1963, have never left her. She was in Washington, DC, on a road trip with her father and a brother. "We were driving through DC on our way back home to New Jersey. I remember looking out the car window at so many black people, wearing their Sunday best clothing", recalls Zia, now long recognized as a campaigner who helped make Asian Americans aware of their rights in a nation where many viewed them with suspicion or hostility.
Laurel County Sheriff John Root reports Detective Taylor McDaniel and Deputy Brian France were dispatched to a residence off Blanton Subdivision Road .