Mr. White, 21, said in a telephone interview Thursday that while he was still processing the news of the sentencing, he did not believe that justice had been served. “It’s not what I asked for,” said Mr. White, noting that he had asked the judge for a harsher sentence. “Life is what I asked for.”…
The instinct to rebuild in the same place should be questioned, not just in Montecito but in all of California’s vulnerable areas, said Tom Corringham, a research economist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego who has studied the costs of natural disasters. The 2018 mudslide led to more…
In explaining his decision not to issue a life sentence, Judge Jonker said Mr. Fox did not seem to be a natural leader, that his tactical skills were limited and that the plot had little chance of success because law enforcement had infiltrated the group. Ms. Whitmer, who was elected to a second term last…
Bacon, the GANGGANG co-founder, said the fact that the organization and the 18 artists had returned for “We. The Culture” should be taken as an endorsement of Newfields’s engagement in the reform process, not an indication that every problem had been resolved. “GANGGANG is about recognizing art assets in our community,” he said. That’s where…
Mauna Loa, located on the Big Island of Hawaii, erupted for the first time in 38 years late Sunday night, following a series of striking eruptions in recent years of the smaller and nearby Kilauea volcano. “I have been waiting for Mauna Loa, Earth’s largest active volcano, to erupt since I first learned of it…
Colorado has been the scene of several of the United States’ most notorious mass shootings, including those at Columbine High School in 1999 and a movie theater in Aurora in 2012. Colorado Springs, in particular, has been forced to mourn several times before. Last year, a gunman killed six people at a birthday party on…
The former mayor of Stonecrest, Ga., a small city outside Atlanta, was sentenced on Wednesday to four years and nine months in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal money intended to help his city cope with the pandemic, the authorities said. The former mayor, Jason Lary, who pleaded guilty in United…