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‘We want to say their names.’ Victims of violent crimes remembered in special Merced County ceremony
White paper angels flitted in the leaves of a sequoia tree, as a cool breeze passed through Merced’s Courthouse Park this week. Each angel contained a pen-written name of a victim who lost their life to either violence or crime…
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