Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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State/Nation/World
ED WHITE and ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press
Juneteenth celebrated
By BIANCA VAZQUEZ TONESS,
DETROIT — Americans across the country this weekend
celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national
holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they
commemorated the end of slavery after the Civil War.
While many have treated the long holiday weekend as a
reason for a party, others urged quiet reflection on Amer-
ica’s often violent and oppressive treatment of its Black
citizens. And still others have remarked at the strangeness
of celebrating a federal holiday marking the end of slavery
in the nation while many Americans are trying to stop parts
of that history from being taught in public schools.
“Is #Juneteenth the only federal holiday that some states
have banned the teaching of its history and significance?”
author Michelle Duster asked on Twitter, referring to
measures in Florida, Oklahoma and Alabama prohibiting an
Advancement Placement African American studies course
or the teaching of certain concepts of race and racism.
Monday’s federal holiday commemorated the day in 1865
when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had
been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclama-
tion was issued during the bloody Civil War.
On Juneteenth weekend, a Roman Catholic church in
Detroit devoted its service to urging parishioners to take a
deeper look at the lessons from the holiday.
“In order to have justice we must work for peace. And in
order to have peace we must work for justice,” John Thorne,
executive director of the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance,
said to the congregation at Gesu Catholic Church in Detroit.
Standing before paintings of a Black Jesus and Mary,
Thorne said Juneteenth is a day of celebration, but it also
“has to be much more.”
It was important to speak about Juneteenth during Sunday
Mass, the Rev. Lorn Snow told a reporter as the service was
ending.
A police officer works the scene of an overnight mass shooting at a strip mall in Willowbrook, Ill., Sunday. (AP photo)
Mass shootings and violence leave dead
and injured across the US this weekend
By MATTHEW BROWN
and CLAIRE SAVAGE
Associated Press
weekend cases matches the lence a tragedy and saying a party in an office space
widely accepted definition the president was thinking when the shooting broke out
for mass shootings.
of those killed and injured. around 1 a.m. Sunday.
CHICAGO
shootings and violence ings this weekend:
killed and wounded people CHICAGO
across the United States Five people were shot, two gation.
this weekend, including at fatally on the city’s South “Gathering for a holiday old girl was trampled as she
least 60 shot in the Chica- Side on Sunday evening gathering should be a joyful fled, seriously injuring her
go area alone. Four people when someone opened fire occasion, not a time where spine, Tracy said.
were found shot to death in from a car that pulled up gunfire erupts and families Shell casings from AR-
a small Idaho town, a Penn- to a gathering, according to are forced to run for safety,” style rifles and other fire-
—
Mass
Here’s a look at the shoot- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker
The victims ranged from
said in a statement that he 15 to 19 years old and had
was monitoring the investi- injuries including multiple
gunshot wounds. A 17-year-
“The struggle’s still not over with. There’s a lot of work to
be done,” he said.
sylvania state trooper was police.
killed in an ambush, and Another four men were
bullets struck 11 teenagers, shot, one fatally, during an
Pritzker said.
KELLOGG, IDAHO
Police in Idaho arrest-
arms were scattered on the
ground.
WASHINGTON STATE
Two people were killed
Most Black Americans agree, according to a recent poll.
A full 70% of Black adults queried in a AP-NORC poll
said “a lot” needs to be done to achieve equal treatment for
African Americans in policing. And Black Americans suffer
from significantly worse health outcomes than their white
peers across a variety of measures, including rates of mater-
nal mortality, asthma, high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s
disease.
Other events to mark the holiday included a CNN special
where Vice President Kamala Harris was scheduled to ap-
pear, along with with musical guests including Miguel and
Charlie Wilson.
Although end-of-slavery celebrations are new in many
parts of the country, in Memphis, where the slave trade once
thrived, the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated since
long before it became a designated federal holiday in 2021.
The Tennessee Legislature passed a bill earlier this year
making it a state holiday, as well.
killing one, at a party in altercation in a garage in the ed a suspect in a shooting
Missouri.
The shootings happened in Austin around 3 a.m. Sun- Sunday at a home behind a when a shooter began firing
cities and rural areas alike, day, police said. Five oth- church. “randomly” into a crowd at
following a surge in homi- ers including a teenage girl Responding officers found a Washington state camp-
West Side neighborhood of that killed four people on and two others were injured
cides and other violence were shot early Saturday four people, all dead from ground where many peo-
over the past several years near Lincoln Park Zoo, and gunshot wounds, at a resi- ple were staying to attend
that accelerated during the two dozen more were shot in dence in Kellogg, accord- a nearby music festival on
coronavirus pandemic. Of- other incidents since Friday ing to the Shoshone County Saturday night, police said.
ficers responded to mass evening, city data shows.
shootings in Washington
Sheriff’s Office and news
Meanwhile in the suburbs, reports. Idaho State Police a confrontation with law
state, Philadelphia, San at least 23 people were shot, said a 31-year-old man was enforcement officers and
Francisco, Southern Cali- one fatally, early Sunday detained, KXLY-TV report- taken into custody, several
fornia and Baltimore. in a parking lot where hun- ed. hundred yards from the Be-
“There’s no question dreds of people had gath- A neighbor at the scene yond Wonderland electronic
there’s been a spike in vio- ered to celebrate Juneteenth, told the TV station that there dance music festival.
lence,” said Daniel Nagin, authorities said. had been an ongoing dispute The festival carried on un-
a professor of public policy The DuPage County between neighbors at the lo- til early Sunday morning,
The suspect was shot in
and statistics at Carnegie sheriff’s office described a cation. It happened behind Grant County Sheriff’s Of-
Mellon University. “Some “peaceful gathering” that the Mountain View Congre- fice spokesman Kyle Fore-
of these cases seem to be suddenly turned violent as gational Church, the Sho- man said. Organizers then
just disputes, often among multiple people fired shots shone News-Press reported. posted a tweet saying Sun-
adolescents, and those dis- into the crowd in Willow-
putes are played out with brook, Illinois, about 20
firearms, not with fists.” miles (32 kilometers) south- ing in a downtown St. Lou-
Researchers disagree over west of Chicago. is office building killed a
the cause. Theories include
the possibility that violence diately known. Sheriff’s ed 11 other teenagers, the ly wounded just hours apart
is driven by the prevalence spokesman Robert Carroll city’s police commissioner in central Pennsylvania on
of guns in America, or by said authorities were inter- said. Saturday after a gunman
less aggressive police tactics viewing “persons of inter- St. Louis Metropolitan attacked a state police bar-
or a decline in prosecutions est,” the Daily Herald re- Police Commissioner Rob- racks.
for misdemeanor weapon ported. ert Tracy identified the The suspect drove his
offenses, Nagin said. “We just started hearing victim who was killed as truck into the parking lot
ST. LOUIS
day’s concert was canceled.
An early Sunday shoot-
CENTRAL
PENNSYLVANIA
One state trooper was
A motive wasn’t imme- 17-year-old and wound- killed and a second critical-
Only the Idaho killings fit shooting, so we dropped 17-year-old Makao Moore. of the Lewistown barracks
the definition of a mass kill- down until they stopped,” a A spokesman said a minor about 11 a.m. Saturday and
ing in which four or more witness, Markeshia Avery, who had a handgun was in opened fire with a large-cal-
A’lelia Johnson, 12, of Detroit, enjoys ice cream during
a social gathering after Mass concluded, Sunday at Gesu
Catholic Church in Detroit. (AP photo)
people die, not including the told WLS-TV.
shooter. However, the num-
ber of injured in most of the a statement calling the vio-
police custody as a person iber rifle on marked patrol
cars before fleeing, author-
Teenagers were having ities said Sunday.
The White House issued of interest.
Ancient Rome temples complex, with ruins of building where Caesar was stabbed, opens to tourists
ROME (AP) — Four tem- ters above the area where the late 1920s, part of dic- white photograph showing lossal head of one of the de- glorious column.
ples from ancient Rome, Caesar masterminded his tator Benito Mussolini’s Mussolini cutting the ribbon ities honored in the temples, Bulgari helped pay for the
dating back as far as the 3rd political strategies and was campaign to remake the ur- in 1929 after the excavated chinless and without its construction of the walk-
century B.C. stand smack later fatally stabbed in 44 ban landscape. A tower at ruins were shown off. lower lip. Another is a stone ways and nighttime illumi-
in the middle of one of the B.C. one edge of Largo Argenti- Also visible are the trav- fragment of a winged angel nation. A relief to tourists
modern city’s busiest cross- Behind two of the temples na once topped a medieval ertine paving stones that of victory. who step gingerly over
roads. is a foundation and part of a palace. Emperor Domitian had laid Over the last decades, a the uneven ancient paving
But until Monday, practi- wall that archaeologists be- The temples are designat- down after a fire in 80 A.D. cat colony flourished among stones of the Roman Forum.
cally the only ones getting lieve were part of Pompey’s ed A, B, C and D, and are ravaged a large swath of the ruins. Felines lounged The Sacred Area’s wooden
a close-up view of the tem- Curia, large rectangu- believed to have been dedi- Rome, including the Sacred undisturbed, and cat lovers walkways are wheelchair
ples were cats that prowled lar-shaped hall that tem- cated to female deities. One Area. were allowed to feed them. and baby-stroller-friendly.
the so-called “Sacred Area,” porarily hosted the Roman of the temples, reached by On display are some of On Monday, one black-and- For those who can’t handle
on the edge of the site where Senate when Caesar was an imposing staircase and the artifacts found during white cat sprawled lazily the stairs down from the
Julius Caesar was assassi- murdered. featuring a circular form and last century’s excavation. on its back atop the stone sidewalk, an elevator plat-
nated. What leads archaeolo- with six surviving columns, Among them is a stone co- stump of what was once a form is available.
With the help of funding gists to pinpoint the ruins is believed to have been
a
from Bulgari, the luxury as Pompey’s Curia? “We erected in honor of Fortuna,
jeweler, the grouping of know it with certainty be- a goddess of chance associ-
temples can now be visited cause latrines were found ated with fertility.
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
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Administrative Rules for Gas Safety Rule Set 2023-19 LR
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
by the public.
on the sides” of Pompey’s
Taken together, the tem-
For decades, the curious Curia, and ancient texts ples make for “one of the
had to gaze down from the mentioned the latrines, said best-preserved remains of
bustling sidewalks rimming Claudio Parisi Presicce, an the Roman Republic,’’ Pa-
Largo Argentina (Argentina archaeologist and Rome’s risi Presicce said after the
Square) to admire the tem- top official for cultural her- Mayor of Rome Roberto
ples below. That’s because, itage. Gualtieri cut a ceremonial
over the centuries, the city The temples emerged ribbon Monday afternoon.
had been built up, layer by during the demolition of On display in a corridor near
layer, to levels several me- medieval-era buildings in the temples is a black-and-
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