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5 things to know about Memorial Day including its controversies
By BEN FINLEY - Associated Press
Fri,05/26/23-9:00AM , 191 Reads
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers.
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Angus Barn executive chef Walter Royal sits in his favorite spot in the Angus Barn, a Raleigh, N.C., institution, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Royal, the chef of a destination steakhouse in North Carolina who triumphed on “Iron Chef America” by cooking mostly southern dishes with ostrich meat, has died Monday, May 22, 2023, at the age of 67. The Angus Barn in Raleigh, where Royal served as executive chef since the 1990s, announced his passing on its website. (Juli Leonard/The News & Observer via AP)

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Walter Royal, North Carolina chef who won on 'Iron Chef America' cooking with ostrich, dies at 67
By BEN FINLEY - Associated Press
Tue,05/23/23-1:12PM , 539 Reads
Walter Royal, the chef of a destination steakhouse in North Carolina who triumphed as a challenger on “Iron Chef America” by cooking mostly Southern dishes with ostrich meat, has died.
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A man photographs a home damaged by a tornado in Virginia Beach, Va., on Monday May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

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Tornadoes in Virginia and Florida, flooding in other states
By BEN FINLEY - Associated Press
Mon,05/01/23-3:33AM , 399 Reads
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A rare and powerful tornado sent residents of a coastal city in Virginia fleeing for cover over the weekend as it peeled roofs from buildings and pushed homes from their foundations.
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From left, Reginald F. Davis, pastor of First Baptist Church, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist, and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology, stand at the brick-and-mortar foundation of one the oldest Black churches in the U.S. on Oct. 6, 2021, in Williamsburg, Va. Experts announced Thursday, April 6, 2023, that three men whose graves were found at the site were members of the church in the early 19th Century. (AP Photo/Ben Finley, File)

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Experts link graves to one of nation's oldest Black churches
By BEN FINLEY - Associated Press
Thu,04/06/23-3:03PM , 552 Reads
Three men whose graves were found at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches were members of its congregation in the early 19th century, a team of archaeologists and scientists in Virginia announced Thursday.
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