Tony Puricelli

@tonypuricelli

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    56 minutes ago

    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was in Memphis in 1968 to protest with sanitation workers the week he was killed. Here’s the story of one of those workers, Cleophus Smith, who is still on the job today.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    Excited for this collaboration with & . Watch this thread over the next few days to follow the events following MLK's assassination 50 years ago in real time.

    Replying to @baltimoresun @washingtonpost
    All told, King's assassination set off more than 100 riots across the country. Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore were home to some of the worst. Over the next several days, we’ll be chronicling those events on Twitter — as they unfolded half a century earlier.
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    5 hours ago

    Here's a photo Trib's took today of holding up the front page of our story on treatment for sexual assault patients. She called what the story described "unconscionable"

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    4 hours ago
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    Baltimore would erupt two days later, and stay on edge for nearly a week. Its riots were blamed for six deaths and hundreds of injuries. More than 1,000 businesses were torched, damaged, looted or destroyed.

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    In Chicago’s two-day siege, at least nine people were killed, 300 were hurt and more than 2,000 were arrested. More than 250 stores and businesses were destroyed.

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    4 hours ago

    Fifty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain in Memphis. When word reached Washington, D.C., chaotic riots left 13 dead and more than 900 businesses damaged. These are the four days that reshaped the District

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    7 hours ago

    Lisa Madigan pushes for bill to require hospitals to have trained medical workers available to treat sexual assault patients: “I think it should be a moral obligation, but because it hasn’t worked that way, we’ll make it a legal obligation.”

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    10 hours ago

    For Martin Luther King, Jr., a bomb threat, a march turned violent and a militant group all weighed heavily on him during his last speech in 1968.

    Memphis officials are seeking an injunction in federal court that would ban another march promised by Martin Luther King, Jr., limit the number of marchers or restrict the route.
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    10 hours ago

    He was 39 years old.

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    12 hours ago

    "I lost a friend. I lost a great brother. I lost my leader. If it hadn't been for Martin Luther King Jr., I don't know what would have happened to our nation," Rep. John Lewis says, remembering the day King was assassinated

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    Apr 3

    Here's a peek at the recently uncovered photographs VintageTribune found in an unlabeled box in the Tribune's subterranean archive of in Chicago. More here:

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    Apr 3

    1/ If Henry is killed, his death can be traced to a quiet moment in the fall of 2016 when he decided to spill what he knew about MS-13. Police were desperate for informants. Henry gave them a way in. Now he is marked for death:

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    Apr 3

    Dutch national Alex van der Zwaan expected to become first person sentenced in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation today.

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  14. Apr 3

    Check thread for link to video of a thwarted armed robbery on the Northwest Side

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  15. Apr 3

    I had never heard of this practice by trans youth. Crazy how young these teens are to be planning so far down the road. A preview of the more fluid parental roles of the future.

    In the past, transgender people accepted the potential loss of biological fertility as the price they paid to live according to their gender identity. Now, some transgender youth don't have to choose, as they preserve fertility by banking sperm or eggs
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    Apr 3

    Martin Luther King, 50 years ago tonight, Memphis--“I’ve been to the mountaintop….Like anybody, I would like to live a long life….But I'm not concerned about that now….I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land”

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  17. Apr 2

    A Long Island teen wanted a way out of his gang. He told police everything he knew. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death. (via )

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    Apr 2

    While reporting this story, I learned that there aren't any good nationwide numbers on people experiencing intimate partner violence in rural communities. That just seems absurd to me, though I acknowledge the difficulty in getting that data.

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    Apr 2

    Wyoming loves its empty spaces, the rolling hills, the isolated mountains, the endless prairie. But for women like Ruthie - women who are abused by their husband - those empty, rural spaces become added dangers.

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  20. Apr 2

    They were there: 50 years later, Chicago area students, police, an activist and a rioter remember what they went through in 1968 after MLK's assassination:

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