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Governor: ‘It Was Honest Mistake’ • Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., said he made “an honest mistake” in failing to correct a White House fellowship application 18 years ago when he wrote he had received a Bronze Star in Afghanistan though he never ended up receiving it, The New York Times reported. At the time, Moore
said the deputy brigade commander had recommended him for the Bronze Star — and told him to include the award on his application “after confirming with two other senior-level officers that they had also signed off on the commendation.” Toward the end of his deployment, however, Moore said he was disappointed to learn he had not received the Bronze Star. “I sincerely wish I had gone back to correct the note on my application. It was an honest mistake, and I regret not making that correction.”
Club Shooting Probe Closed • Police closed their investigation into the former owners of the Pulse nightclub — scene of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, in 2016 in which 49 people were murdered — without filing any charges. Victims’ families and
survivors at the LGBTQ+ nightclub had asked law enforcement to investigate the former owners for criminal culpability. They said building plans were not available to first responders during the three hours patrons were held hostage in the club and that the premises were probably above capacity. No charges will be filed
against former owners Barbara and Rosario Poma because probable cause didn’t exist for involuntary manslaughter by culpable negligence, Orlando police said.
Dam Removal Project Complete • Workers breached the
Judge Backs Tenant in Suit Over Noisy Parrots
A
woman who faced eviction from her New York co- op over her three emotional support parrots has
been awarded $165,000 in damages and $585,000 for her apartment. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York
described it as “the largest recovery the Department of Justice has ever obtained for a person with disabilities whose housing provider denied them their right to have an assistance animal.” Meril Lesser lived with parrots for almost 20 years until neighbors began to complain the birds were too noisy, The New York Times reported, and the co-op board moved to evict her. Lesser, who has anxiety and depression, moved out.
The judge ruled the co-op must dismiss the eviction
proceedings against Lesser and adopt a “reasonable accommodation policy” for residents who want to live with assistance animals.
final dams on a key section of the Klamath River, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time in more than a century. It is the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. “Our sacred duty to our children, our ancestors,
and for ourselves, is to take care of the river, and today’s events represent a fulfillment of that obligation,” Frankie Myers, vice chairman for the Yurok Tribe, said in a statement. The tribe has spent decades fighting to remove the dams and restore the river.
1492
Christopher Columbus made first landfall in the New World.
1871
The Great Fire of Chicago killed 300 people and destroyed 3.5 square miles.
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1879 Thomas
Edison tested an electric
incandescent lamp that remained lit for 13½ hours.
1908
THIS MONTH IN HISTORY 1919
Henry Ford’s Model T, a
car designed for the masses, went
on sale.
Prohibition began with sales of alcoholic drinks
becoming illegal until 1933.
1927 The first
“talkie” film, The Jazz
Singer starring Al Jolson, opened in New York.
1929 The great
stock market crash
started the Great
Depression in America.
1941 Mount
Rushmore National Memorial was completed
after 14 years of work.
1967
Thurgood Marshall
(1908-1993)
was sworn in as the first African American U.S. Supreme
Court justice.
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