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Pioneering lawmaker Shirley Chisholm will be honored with a statue in the New York City borough she served as the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
City officials announced Friday that a monument to Chisholm will be installed at the entrance to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
The Brooklyn-born Chisholm served in Congress from 1969 to 1983. In 1972 she became the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. She died in 2005 at age 80.
The statue’s artist will be announced in early 2019, and city officials say it will be installed by the end of 2020.
Police review: No evidence of a crime in Casey Kasem’s death
Police found no evidence of wrongdoing after investigating allegations that relatives of radio personality Casey Kasem were responsible for his 2014 death but will turn it over to prosecutors, officials in Washington state said.
The administrative investigation didn’t find evidence of a crime, said Gig Harbor Police Chief Kelly Busey. The “American Top 40” host had a form of dementia and a severe bedsore when he died at age 82 at a hospital in Gig Harbor, southwest of Seattle.
Police opened their investigation after Kasem’s wife, Jean Kasem, submitted a private investigator’s report claiming three of Casey Kasem’s children from a previous marriage were responsible for the radio host’s death.