St Mary farmer charged in connection with fatal machete attack

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St Mary farmer charged in connection with fatal machete attack

St Mary farmer 21-year-old Narval Johnson, otherwise called ‘Poison’, of Fort Stewart district in Enfield was on Saturday charged with murder. He is accused of killing another farmer, 48-year-old Anthony Eddie of Fort Stewart district,...

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Comedic icon Mantan Moreland, perhaps best known as sidekick Birmingham Brown in a series of Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1940s, also starred in several all-black horror-comedies with his straight man, F.E. Miller— including this one about a pair of men who win a house in a game of craps. The only

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