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...sometime near the end of the Civil War. Yale University historian David Blight places the first Memorial Day in April 1865, when a group of former slaves gathered at a Charleston, S.C., horse track turned Confederate prison where more than 250 Union soldiers had died. Digging up the soldiers' mass grave, they interred the bodies in individual graves, built a 100-yd. fence around them and erected an archway over the entrance bearing the words "Martyrs of the Race Course." On May 1, 1865, some 10,000 black Charleston residents, white missionaries, teachers, schoolchildren and Union troops marched around...
...H1N1 flu seems a far cry from the mass killer it was feared to be when it first emerged in Mexico in April. While it has since infected more than 12,000 people in 43 countries, including more than 6,500 in the U.S., it has so far killed just 86 victims. Health officials are still on high alert, however; the disease continues to spread, with a batch of new cases in Japan in mid-May that could be enough to prompt the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare an official pandemic. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...MEDFORD, Mass.—Jabrai J. Copney, a 20-year-old New York resident, pled not guilty to charges of first-degree murder for a Monday shooting in Kirkland J-entryway that led to the death of 21-year-old Cambridge resident Justin Cosby early the next morning...
...Copney, a New York songwriter, turned himself in to the Cambridge Police Thursday evening, according to the District Attorney’s office of Middlesex County. He pled not guilty during his arraignment Friday morning in Cambridge District Court in Medford, Mass., where a judge ruled he would be held without bail until his July 15 hearing...
...Ukraine's Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, Yushchenko gave a speech at the Bykivnya forest, a mass grave near Kiev where the bodies of an estimated 100,000 victims of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, were dumped between 1937 and 1941. In the speech, he equated the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany: "They are comparable in their hatred towards human beings. They are identical in the unprecedented scale of their mass killings...