An Observer investigation last month found that the city spent more than $1 million in mostly taxpayer funds fighting and eventually settling with Patterson and other Black firefighters who accused the department of racial discrimination, retaliation and snubbed promotions.
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Julia Coin
June 11,
Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
But George had courted, and then snubbed, Richmond’s teen-age sister Sarah, marrying a minor German princess instead.
For each of the murders, the four men either lured or abducted and drove the victims to the Angeles National Forest after the victims slighted the gang in different ways, according to the Justice Department.
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Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
5 June 2026
Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.
The moment came in the 73rd minute with a goal from Mauricio to cut the US advantage to 3-1.
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Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
Simpson robbed Adell of a homer in the eighth to keep the Rays within two, and Aranda cut it to 4-3 with a two-out single off Farris before Zeferjahn finished.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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