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Blinded by glaucoma as a toddler, 5-year-old Fird Eaglin Jr. taught himself to play guitar by copying what he heard on the radio. At 12, he won a talent show at Hayes Chicken Shack by performing ...

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The NOPD has used its bias-free policing audits to try to convince a federal judge to eventually terminate a yearslong reform ...