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BELMONT — A 27-year-old Menlo Park man charged with the murder of a friend’s ex-boyfriend pleaded not guilty Tuesday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney ’s Office. Jovhon Stewart  The 24-year-old victim, DeJohn Jones, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Aug. 5 when he went to Jolie Harris’ one-bedroom apartment on the 500 block of Ralston Avenue in Belmont with his sister and cousin to retrieve a television and other items that belonged to him. Prosecutors said Jones and Harris had recently broken up. At the apartment with Harris that morning were her brother Victor Bell and five other friends, including the suspect, Jovhon A. Stewart. Stewart was identified as Jones’ killer by Bell, Stewart’s girlfriend Bryana Fields and Davinci Mendoza, according to prosecutors. Authorities arrested Stewart at the Union City BART station on Aug. 9. An autopsy showed Jones was shot twice in the back, once in the head and once in the arm. Prosecutors said he was not a...

Fr Mario Sant is urging more people to donate blood, an essential part of treatment. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier Donating an hour of your time would not cost much, except for a bag of platelets, but it went a long way to improve the life of cancer patients , a Conventual Franciscan said. Fr Mario Sant, 35, is one of two Conventual Franciscans who are based in London and who see to the spiritual needs of Maltese patients and their relatives during their stay there for treatment. When he is in Malta on a break, he helps out patients in another way: donating blood platelets , which are mainly used for cancer treatment. As Fr Sant was speaking to the Times of Malta , blood donors received an appeal from the National Blood Transfusion Service unit because blood supply is still low. READ: The man who has donated 100 bags of blood At the beginning of the month, the unit had issued an appeal because the 50 bags needed daily were not being collected and if the situation persisted, patients ...