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The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

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But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate ... which coincides with the month of his death. Neither bill made it to a floor vote.

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Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... The length of time flags should be at half-staff after the death of a former president was set in 1954. Private companies and citizens ...

BCSO Deputy Jesus Vargas was shot in the head and killed while he and other members of the U.S. Marshal's Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force were serving a warrant on Robert Lee Davis ...