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Real-life Nightmare:' Crash Deaths Of Mother And Daughter Leave Community In Disbelief

... Libby, who just turned 8 this past Saturday, was a second-grader at Moon Lake School in Mentone. "She will be greatly missed," said Principal Mary Lance. "She was a great student and a very sweet child. "It's been a devastating event for us," Lance continued. The principal said the school is hosting a balloon release Friday morning at 10 a.m. in honor and memory of Libby's life. Local pastors and counselors are providing grief support for Libby's classmates and teachers. "Libby just turned 8 years old this past Saturday," Blalock said. "That is much too young of a life to be taken. Libby was a beautiful and bright child.". Blalock said Julie, who also has two older children, was engaged and planning a wedding this fall. "Shortly after Julie's death, a lady messaged me about how much Julie meant to her," Blalock said. The lady stated that her and Julie managed a recovery group for women on Facebook. The lady told me, 'So many of the ladies in my group loved her so much. She ...

Life Of Westminster Terrorist Khalid Masood's Mother

... In the description on the site, she says: 'Hello, I'm Janet and I live in rural west Wales with my husband, border collie and a few chickens. 'Our home is tucked away at the end of a little lane, and it's here that you'll find me making bags and cushions. His mother now lives in rural west Wales, on a farm in the village of Trelech, Carmarthenshire. 'I use natural fabrics, both new and recycled, and love to make use of old Welsh wool blankets. 'All items are one-off. You may see the same style of bag, or the same fabric may reappear in a different guise, but never the same thing twice.'. According to neighbours there was a heavy police presence in the village yesterday. One said: 'We heard rumours early yesterday. Then police streamed up the drive to the house. I've heard what the connection is and I'm stunned.'. After amassing a lengthy list of criminal convictions, Masood changed his name and spent years living in a series of terrorist hotbeds. He used at least five aliases and was known to have lived most recently in a grimy flat in ...

Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living

... kids deciding what they want to be when they grow up aspire to become like the titans in Silicon Valley—risking that they’ll grow up wanting to solve the wrong problems. ‘What would it mean to design against despair or isolation or loneliness?’. As surgeon and author Atul Gawande explains in Being Mortal, funding improvements in palliative care—making people in extreme pain or at the end of their life more comfortable—would much more meaningfully address the problem of death. You make death less terrible and inevitable by making life less painful. Silicon Valley’s simplistic life extension arithmetic—you improve life by adding more years—glosses over the complicated social forces eroding or hampering the quality of life for so many people. “What would it mean to design against despair or isolation or loneliness?” asks Russell. “I have to think that just making ...

Man Gets Life Sentences In Murder-for-hire Case

... and Roberto Martinez, who was Ruth Sagredo's friend. “The death of my brother, Roberto Martinez, has had an emotional and psychological impact on my family,” Martinez's brother, Mario Martinez, said in a statement read during Thursday’s sentencing hearing. “No words will ever describe our loss.”. Emmanuel Velasco also was ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution to the victims’ families. He also must forfeit $185,000 seized in a vehicle during his arrest and several properties he owns in El Paso, Horizon City, Midland and Las Vegas. “The sentence handed down today is the result of outstanding efforts by the FBI and our partner agencies, DEA and HSI," FBI El Paso Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist said in a statement. "A murderer is behind bars. Justice has been served for the victims, their families, and the greater border community.”. In order to lure Ruth Sagredo to Juárez, authorities say her father was killed to get her to attend his ...

New Orleans Judge Won't Preclude Life Sentence Before Teen Murder Defendant's Trial

... is accused of fatally shooting 17-year-old Ortez Williams Jr. at a New Orleans East apartment complex July 16, 2015. New Orleans police said Brown was only 15 when he pulled the trigger, slaying Williams around 7:25 p.m. on the sidewalk outside the Plaza Park apartment complex in the  6700 block of Tara Lane. Williams was shot multiple times, police said, and pronounced dead at an area hospital. Brown was arrested in November 2016 and has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder. A hearing on motions in his case is scheduled for April 4, with a trial date not yet set. In a novel defense strategy, his attorneys March 14 filed motions asking Hunter to preemptively rule out a life sentence without the possibility of parole should their client be convicted, and to compel District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office to say ahead of time if such a sentence would be pursued and upon what aggravating factors it would be based. Hunter ...

The Han Solo Movie Covers Six Formative Years In The Smuggler's Life

... 24. It will show him acquiring his iconic ship the Millennium Falcon, meeting his partner Chewbacca, and “getting his name,” according to Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Fritz. Now, none of this is exactly earth-shattering. You don’t put Lando in a movie about Han Solo and not show how he won the Millennium Falcon. And it was previously revealed that the film will explain how Han saved Chewbacca’s life, setting up the life debt and friendship between the two. So what does “getting his name” mean? Is Han Solo not his given name? Is it a cool smuggler alias? No, I think what Fritz means is “making a name for himself,” but just doing so in under 140 characters. Things like beating Lando for the Falcon, saving Chewbacca, and whatever else will help give Han the reputation and swagger he has later in the series, where he’s an infamous smuggler who has wronged Jabba the Hutt and others. Or, maybe, it is literally “getting his name.” We don’t know, but that would be ...

Our Best Shot At Finding Alien Life

... understanding the kind of measurements we need to make. Then we'll work with the administration in the future at the right time to see if, budgetarily, we can move forward with it.". Some innovative Europa lander concepts have been proposed over the last two decades, reflecting the scientific bounty to be had by touching down. Dr Geraint Jones of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory has worked on one concept called a penetrator. Media caption Dr Geraint Jones explains how to punch through the hard icy surface of Europa. "They haven't been flown in space before, but it's a really promising technology," he explains. A projectile deployed from a satellite hits the surface "really hard, at about 300 m/second, about 700 miles an hour", exposing pristine ice for analysis by onboard instruments, which could be designed to withstand the impact. By contrast, Nasa's forthcoming lander would put down softly with the help of the Sky Crane technology used to drop the Curiosity rover safely on Mars in 2012. During the touchdown, ...

The Life And Death Issue Ignored At Judge Gorsuch’s Confirmation Hearings

... Oklahoma famously tortured a man named Clayton Lockett to death. Witnesses to his execution described how he writhed in agony during the bloody ordeal; one official compared it to a horror film. The state hastily revised its lethal injection protocol, then swiftly assigned new execution dates to four men on Oklahoma’s death row. The men challenged the state’s new lethal injection formula, arguing that it put them at risk of “severe pain, needless suffering, and a lingering death,” in violation of the Eighth Amendment. At the center of their argument was midazolam, the first in the three-drug cocktail used to kill Lockett. The drug had replaced the barbiturate sodium thiopental, relied upon for decades by death penalty states. Sodium thiopental, an anesthetic, was traditionally followed by a paralytic agent, ...

More Life' Somehow Has Twitter Savagely Roasting Uk Rappers

... your name Jered (@Black Lifes Mater) March 22, 2017. When a british rapper says free his homie this is what they're trying to bail him from __link__/6 WF 8 Tp 7 Xhr. — F BOMB ON THE TL (@DMC 12 gauge) March 21, 2017. When UK rappers say they got beef __link__/QV 0 p Bo XIe K. — lil yawhh (@Capt Dozzie) March 21, 2017. Thankfully, not everyone is down for the slander. Me, a cultured individual, developing a taste for British rap __link__/7 vu Yba 3 F 9 Z. — Chris Harang (@chris_harang) March 20, 2017. Skepta Drops a New Video for "Shutdown". More Life features some UK input from Giggs , singer-songwriter Sampha , the amazing Jorja Smith , and (my personal favorite) an interlude from critically acclaimed Konnichiwa rapper  Skepta. These features, according to a BBC News report released this week, have already resulted in boosted ...

New Report Shows Life-threatening Moments Of The Canyon Fire

... difficult time breathing in the smoke. As the smoke became thicker.he threw his sunglasses and threw his tool and made the decision to pull out his fire shelter. As he finished pulling the plastic tab from around the shelter, another Helitack crewmember hiking out passed by him and told him they were close to the safety zone.[he] left his gear but kept the fire shelter and followed the Helitack crewmember.". The report included an exclusive heart-pounding 18-minute video from fire trucks and helmets of crews that were being overrun by a radical wind driven fire on the air force base. At one point in the video, personnel from one fire truck can be heard trying to find out where a missing crew member is as they reach the safety zone, "This is Engine 253. It looks like the north side is starting to burn.5-3 is in the safety zone. Does anyone know where Jake is at. Go-4 253. You got Jake on board? No Sir we do not. Jake walked out in front and said he was going to meet us out here.". "During Engine ...