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Here’s a recap of the top stories on the morning of Wednesday, May 26, 2021:
Following court-ordered mediation, the Virginia Employment Commission will work to resolve a backlog of pandemic-related jobless claims by Labor Day. As Whittney Evans reports, legal aid groups sued last month on behalf of residents.
Lawyers for Dylann Roof asked a federal appeals court in Richmond yesterday to overturn his conviction. Roof is the White Nationalist who killed nine people at an historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina six years ago. He was sentenced to death in 2017, after being convicted on federal murder and hate crimes charges for the massacre. Roof
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Karyn Maria Gonzalez was born at the time the sun is highest in the sky high noon on July 8, 2016.
Perhaps a perfect metaphor for the kind of person her father Robert Gonzalez Jr. believed that she was, “bright and full of life.”
The kind of person who could put a smile on your face almost instantly, Gonzalez said.
“She was also both loving and caring, just like her name,” Gonzalez said.
Karyn had been taught proper manners at an early age and was the “perfect little lady.”
“She always said please, thank you and said hi everyone, no matter who they were or where they were from. If you sneezed, she would always say, God bless you.’”
5-Month-Old Baby Suffers Multiple Fractured Ribs, Brain Injury From Abuse; Mom, Boyfriend Arrested
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A New Mexico mother and her boyfriend were arrested on child abuse charges over the death of her 5-month-old daughter
The child suffered several limb injuries, rib fractures, spine deformities and brain hemorrhage, court documents said
Doctors said the infant s injuries were consistent with long-term child abuse
A couple in Mesquite, New Mexico, has been arrested and is facing child abuse charges over the death of the woman s 5-month-old daughter last month, court documents showed.
Isreal Ramirez and Danielle Lujan, both 23, were arrested Thursday and booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center over the death of Lujan s child in April, local newspaper Albuquerque Journal reported. They were initially being held without bail.