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Harry Johnston, a lifelong West Palm Beach resident who spent two decades shaping public policy as a congressman and state senator and helped form and lead some of the area’s most prominent civic institutions, died Monday at 89.
During a political career that spanned a period of explosive South Florida growth, Johnston oversaw the creation of the state’s Growth Management Act and passage of legislation to form the Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County and kick-start efforts to build the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
A fifth-generation Floridian, Johnston rose to key political roles at the state, federal and international level, serving as state Senate President in the 1980s, as chairman of the U.S. House’s African affairs subcommittee in the 1990s and eventually as President Bill Clinton’s special envoy to Sudan.
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Virginia Union star Ben Wallace voted into Basketball Hall of Fame
By: The Associated Press
and last updated 2021-05-17 14:06:10-04
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - Jay Wright used to sell tickets to games in the long-defunct United States Football League. Ben Wallace was passed over by every NBA team, some of them twice. Yolanda Griffith got a job repossessing cars so she could take care of herself and her infant daughter while playing community college basketball.
For all of them, those days are long gone. Basketballâs highest honor has come their way.
Wright, Wallace and Griffith were part of a 16-person class that was announced Sunday as the 2021 inductees for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Longtime standout NBA forwards Chris Bosh, Paul Pierce and Chris Webber were among those selected, along with former coaches Rick Adelman and Cotton Fitzsimmons and three-time WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Jay Wright used to sell tickets to games in the long-defunct United States Football League. Ben Wallace was passed over by every NBA team, some of