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The New York State Education Department says it has canceled the regents exam for United States History and Government in the wake of the racist mass shooting in Buffalo last week.
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Andre Mackneil, 53, died in the racist attack at Tops Markets on May 14. He was at the store to buy a cake for his three-year-old son. Mackneil's brother, niece, and a friend talked about the loving father he was after President Biden's visit to Buffalo. -
Eileen Elibol/BTPMOver 70 photos from the scene of the racist shootings at a Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue, where makeshift memorials grow daily, and a moment of silence was held one week after the moment 10 were killed there.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp won the GOP primary for governor over former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams in November — a rematch of 2018. -
Walker topped a handful of rivals, according to a race call by The Associated Press. He will face Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in November.
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A Texas Department of Public Safety official says the death toll from Tuesday's shooting at Robb Elementary School is now 20. The 18-year-old gunman is dead, police said.
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This wasn't the usual survivor of some event saying the families were looking for their day in court. Instead, they see the accused 18-year-old gunman as a white self-proclaimed racist who killed the 10 victims because they were Black.
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A grand Jury has returned an indictment on Payton Gendron, 18, of Broome County, NY, who is accused of shooting 13 people and killing 10 Saturday at a supermarket on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo. A few East Buffalo residents were outside of the Erie County Courthouse during Gendron’s arraignment.
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A felony hearing for the accused gunman in the racially motivated Tops Market massacre was held Thursday morning in Buffalo City Court but was quickly adjourned after it was revealed a grand jury had already handed up an indictment.
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Neglia Ballet's Spring Gala returns Saturday for the first time since 2019.
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Four days after the mass shooting at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo that killed 10 people and injured three, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced several steps to curb the growing number of extreme acts of violence motivated by racial hatred.
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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people in 46 of New York’s 62 counties wear masks in public indoor settings because omicron variants are surging. You can check your county here.
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The FBI's top agent in Buffalo, Stephen Belongia, indicated on a call with other officials that investigators are looking at the accused killer's Discord activity.
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It was church on a street corner, with a mix of music familiar from Sunday services and uplifting songs for those enduring the pain of mass murder in the neighborhood.
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