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By The Associated Press
Dexter Scott King remembered during memorial
Dexter Scott King, the late son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has been memorialized as the protector of his family’s legacy and the keeper of the dream during a service in Atlanta.
Dexter Scott King died Jan. 22, 2024, at the age of 62 at his home in Malibu, California, after battling prostate cancer. Saturday’s memorial for Dexter King was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his father once was pastor.
Among others paying homage were his wife, Leah Weber King, brother Martin Luther King III and sister, the Rev. Bernice A. King. Stevie Wonder closed the memorial by singing “They Won’t Go When I Go.”
NYC imposing curfew at more migrant shelters
NEW YORK | New York is expanding a curfew to additional migrant shelters. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will impose an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew at 20 migrant shelters starting Monday, after initially placing the restrictions at four other locations. The Daily News reports the curfew impacts about 3,600 migrants.
The city’s traditional homeless shelters have long had such curfews. The 24 shelters now subject to the restrictions represent a fraction of the more than 200 facilities currently housing some 66,000 migrants. The expanded curfew comes after a spate of violence attributed to migrant shelter residents gained national attention in recent weeks.
Bezos sells nearly 12 million Amazon shares
SEATTLE | Jeff Bezos filed a statement with federal regulators indicating his sale of nearly 12 million shares of Amazon stock worth more than $2 billion.
The Amazon executive chairman notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the sale of 11,997,698 shares of common stock on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8.
The collective value of the shares of Amazon, which is based in Seattle where he founded the company in a garage about three decades ago, was more than $2.04 billion, according to the listed price totals.
The stocks were grouped in five blocks between 1 million and more than 3.2 million.
In a separate SEC filing, Bezos listed the proposed sale of 50 million Amazon shares around Feb. 7 with an estimated market value of $8.4 billion.
—From AP reports
