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• Fireworks-related incidents down in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park MENLO PARK – Fireworks-related calls this fireworks season fell by roughly 45% in Menlo Park compared with last year, while East Palo Alto saw a nearly 60% decrease in non-gunfire activations of its gunfire-detection technology during the same time frame, according to a task force assembled to rein in the use of illegal fireworks. The task force – composed of officers from the East Palo Alto and Menlo Park police departments and members of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District…
• Mississippi marker honors 2 Black men killed by Klan in 1964 Friends and relatives gathered Thursday in a tiny town in southwestern Mississippi to dedicate a new state historical marker honoring two young Black men who were kidnapped and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen 57 years ago. Investigators found the remains of college student Charles Eddie Moore and lumber mill worker Henry Hezekiah Dee in a backwater of the Mississippi River in July 1964. It happened as officers were searching for three civil rights workers who had disappeared from central Mississippi…
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