Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  University of Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson is interviewed during a Heisman Trophy media event in New York, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew) By Ralph D. Russo ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Lamar Jackson was trying to remember the last time he cried. He was pretty sure it involved losing a little league…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  NFL star Will Smith  (AP Photo) By Kevin McGill Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — The man who killed retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter, rather than the more serious second-degree murder charge he faced. Cardell Hayes was found guilty last…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Clay County Development director Pamela Taylor   Associated Press CLAY, W.Va. — The director of a West Virginia nonprofit group who was placed on leave after making a racist comment about first lady Michelle Obama on Facebook plans to return to her job this month. Clay County Development director Pamela Ramsey Taylor made…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, looks away from a video monitor during his murder trial at the Charleston County court in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, Nov. 29,2 016. Slater is testifying in his own defense. (Grace Beahm/Post and Courier via AP, Pool) NAACP BALTIMORE – The following is a statement from Cornell…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A coroner’s van is parked outside of a warehouse after it was destroyed by a fire Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, in Oakland, Calif.  Oakland fire chief Teresa Deloche-Reed said many people were unaccounted for as of Saturday morning and authorities were working to verify who was in the cluttered warehouse when the fire…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 photo, Beatrice Menase Kwe Jackson, center, walks with Daniel Emory, both of the Ojibwe Native American tribe as they lead a procession to the Cannonball river for a traditional water ceremony at the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Police cover the body of a suspect outside Watts Hall on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, following an attack on campus that left several people injured on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. The man, identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, plowed his car into a group of pedestrians and began…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Fidel Castro attends the last day of the 7th Cuban Communist Party Congress in Havana, Cuba last April 2016. Fidel Castro formally stepped down in 2008 after suffering gastrointestinal ailments and public appearances have been increasingly unusual in recent years. Cuban President Raul Castro has announced the death of his brother Fidel Castro…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Cuban-Americans celebrate the death of Fidel Castro, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in the Little Havana area in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) By Curt Anderson, Ian Mader and Tamara Lush Associated Press MIAMI — Wearing his “Bay of Pigs Veteran” shirt, 80-year-old Rafael Torre stood amid hundreds of Cuban-Americans celebrating the death of Fidel…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Gwen Ifill  (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) By Errin Haines Whack Associated Press WASHINGTON — Thousands of mourners — including first lady Michelle Obama — remembered and celebrated veteran Washington journalist Gwen Ifill on Saturday, recalling her as a standard bearer, cherished friend, devoted mentor and woman of abiding faith. Ifill died last…

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