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MIAMI — North Miami Mayor Alix Desulme suffered what he described as seizure-like symptoms during a recent trip to Africa, where he fainted during a lunch, he told The Miami Herald. “Oh my God, it was the scariest moment of my life,” he told the Herald shortly after landing in Miami on Wednesday. For the past few days, Desulme was being treated at Johns Hopkins at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. Desulme said he was among 40 South Florida delegates on a two-week trip to Africa, visiting four countries including Sierra Leone, where he passed out during a lunch with Nigeria and Sierr......

NEW YORK — Nearly 500 rookie cops graduated from the Police Academy on Friday and were given their first assignment: New Year’s Eve security as the ball drops in Times Square. “You are now the protectors who will make a difference,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said as 477 officers gathered at Madison Square Garden. “Tomorrow night, as the clock ticks down and you are standing in uniform at the Crossroads of the World, know that this is your city. “It relies on you.” The rookies include 131 immigrants who come from 76 different countries and speak 25 different languages. One of the rook......

PHILADELPHIA — The first time they carjacked, they were mostly bored. The sun was setting, and two teens, then 15 and 19, were riding SEPTA with two other friends, and had nothing to do. They were sick of taking public transportation, they said, and wanted an easier way to get around. “Someone said let’s go get a johnny,” said a West Philadelphia teen, using Philly slang for a stolen car. And that was that. They took the El up to Kensington, where they walked the streets in search of an unsuspecting victim. It was dark and they were about to call it, they said, when they spotted a woman coming......

LAWNSIDE, N.J. – The tiny reddish-orange flags that dot a corner of the historic Mount Peace Cemetery in Lawnside, New Jersey, tell a story. They mark more than 200 newly uncovered graves in the sprawling cemetery established in 1900 as a private, nonsectarian resting place for Black Civil War veterans, former enslaved people, and those who could not be buried in white-only cemeteries. After years of neglect, the three-acre section in the back of the cemetery was covered with thick growth and not accessible for at least five decades, said Dolly L. Marshall, who serves on the board of the Mount......