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☆ Serial killer Ted Bundy stole Kurt Russell's food during an escape from police custody, say Kate and Oliver Hudson
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kate and Oliver Hudson said Ted Bundy stole food from their stepdad, Hollywood icon Kurt Russell. AdvertisementKurt Russell narrowly escaped a run-in with serial killer Ted Bundy, according to his stepchildren, Oliver and Kate Hudson. AdvertisementAt the time, the serial killer was on trial in Pitkin County for the 1975 murder of 23-year-old nurse Caryn Campbell. Bundy escaped by jumping out of a second-story window, and headed straight for the mountains outside Aspen, per ABC News . The serial killer broke into a cabin while evading the authorities for six days, and later stole a car.

Persons: Kate, Oliver Hudson, Ted Bundy, Kurt Russell, Russell, Bundy, Goldie Hawn, —, Oliver, Kate Hudson, Jimmy Kimmel, Tex Watson, Charlie Manson's, Kurt, Caryn Campbell, Hawn, Bill Hudson Organizations: Service, ABC, St Patricks Locations: Hollywood, Pitkin, Aspen , Colorado, Pitkin County, Aspen

☆ Urban Planning Presents Complex Challenges for Seniors - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Andy Hong | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

But for older adults, our towns and cities are filled with obstacles — stairs, unsafe sidewalks and crossings, inadequate lighting — that grow increasingly difficult for them as they age. Alberto Lau, 78, San DiegoDr. Hong responds: Busy streets and intersections can be challenging for older adults to navigate. Additionally, installing more crosswalks and making them more visible can make it easier for older adults to cross the street safely. Yet more and more older adults need the kind of high-quality transportation that can reliably get them from one place to another. This can be especially important for older adults, who may have slower reaction times or difficulty seeing oncoming traffic.

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☆ James Crown, a billionaire JPMorgan board member who belonged to one of the US' richest families, died in a racing crash on his 70th birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Billionaire businessman James "Jim" Crown died in a racing crash in Aspen, Colorado on Sunday. Crown collided with an impact barrier in an accident, the coroner's office told The Colorado Sun. Forbes ranked the Crown family as the US' 34th richest in 2020 with an estimated wealth of $10.2 billion. Billionaire businessman James "Jim" Crown died in a racing crash in Aspen, Colorado on Sunday, multiple news outlets reported. "The official cause of death is pending autopsy although multiple blunt force trauma is evident," the coroner's office told the publication.

Persons: James, Jim, Crown, Henry Crown, Junius Mayer Schine, Jamie Dimon, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Biden, Brandon Johnson, Jim Crown Organizations: Sunday . Crown, Colorado Sun, Forbes, Morning, Aspen Motorsports, The Colorado Sun, Pitkin County Coroner's, Aspen Times, Bloomberg, Henry Crown and Company, Aspen Institute, Aspen Skiing, General Dynamics, White, Indian, America, Chicago, Museum of Science and Industry, University of Chicago Locations: Aspen , Colorado, Pitkin County, Colorado, Chicago

☆ Chicago business executive and philanthropist Jim Crown killed in Colorado racetrack crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Crown, a grandson of industrialist Henry Crown and the chief executive of Henry Crown & Co., was involved in a single-vehicle accident at the Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, the Pitkin County coroner's office said in a news release. Crown's father, financier Lester Crown, said his son "was driving a race car, and it hit a wall going around a curve," the Chicago Sun-Times reported. "There never was a finer human being in every way," Lester Crown said. Crown's family business, Henry Crown & Co., invests in public and private securities, real estate, and operating companies. "The Crown family is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Jim Crown in an accident earlier (Sunday)," his family said.

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☆ JPMorgan, General Dynamics board member Jim Crown dies in accident
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and General Dynamics Corp (GD.N) board member Jim Crown died on Sunday in a vehicle accident in Colorado, a county coroner said. Crown, 70, was the chairman and chief executive officer of Henry Crown and Co., a privately owned company that invests in public and private securities, real estate and operating companies. Crown was involved in a single vehicle accident at the Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, Colorado, the Pitkin County Coroner's office said in a statement. Bank CEO Jamie Dimon said in a memo to directors seen by Reuters that Crown was an "integral part" of JPMorgan Chase. Crown was also the chairman of The Aspen Institute and trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry and the University of Chicago.

Persons: Jim Crown, Henry Crown, Jamie Dimon, Crown, Nupur Anand, Lananh Nguyen, Tatiana Bautzer, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: YORK, JPMorgan Chase &, General Dynamics Corp, Aspen Motorsports, Bank, Reuters, JPMorgan Chase, The Aspen Institute, Museum of Science, Industry, University of Chicago, Thomson Locations: Colorado, Woody Creek , Colorado, Pitkin County, New York

☆ Billionaire killed in race car crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Bryan Mena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Washington, DC CNN —James Crown, a billionaire businessman who held several leadership roles including board member of JPMorgan Chase, died Sunday in a racing accident in Colorado. Crown, who also turned 70 on Sunday, died in the single-vehicle crash after colliding with an impact barrier at Aspen Motorsports Park in Woody Creek, Colorado, The Colorado Sun reported. Among his many roles, Crown was chairman and CEO of his family business, the investment firm Henry Crown and Company. In addition to serving on the JPMorgan board, he was also a board director at General Dynamics. “We extend our deepest condolences to Jim’s family and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time,” Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said in a statement.

Persons: James Crown, JPMorgan Chase, Crown, Henry Crown, Jim’s, ” Jamie Dimon, Jim, ”, Jim Crown, Barack Obama Organizations: DC CNN, JPMorgan, Colorado . Crown, Aspen Motorsports, The Colorado Sun, Henry Crown and Company, General Dynamics, JPMorgan Chase, ”, Aspen Skiing Co, Aspen Institute, Museum of Science and Industry, Civic Committee, University of Chicago, Crown, President’s Intelligence, Local, Pitkin County Coroner’s, Forbes Locations: Washington, Colorado, Woody Creek , Colorado, The, Chicago, Pitkin County

☆ What Happened When a Brooklyn Neighborhood Policed Itself for Five Days
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Maria Cramer | Amir Hamja | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It had been a quiet April afternoon until about a dozen teenagers began running up Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville, yelling and cursing. They were chasing a girl of about 14 and it was clear they wanted a fight. Across Pitkin stood about half a dozen men, civilians in jeans and purple-and-gray sweatshirts. The teenagers slowed as they spotted the men, workers from an organization called Brownsville In Violence Out, who calmly waved them in different directions. They scattered as the girl fled down a side street.

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Stephanie Joyce and Isaac Jones , Pat McCusker , Sonia Herrero andRepublican-led legislatures have recently made it clear what they don’t want taught in public school classrooms: sexuality, gender identity, structural racism. But when it comes to what they do want, one approach frequently arises: classical education. The central tenet of classical education is that students should focus on the Western canon, usually starting with the ancient Greeks. In 2015, he founded a company that developed the Classic Learning Test, or CLT, as an alternative to the College Board’s SAT. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Until now, medical assistance in dying — or MAID, as it’s often called — has been available in North America primarily to patients with terminal physical illnesses. The introduction of psychiatric MAID will present difficult, and different, ethical questions, especially for the doctors responsible for helping patients through this choice. Dr. Sisco van Veen is a psychiatrist working in the Netherlands, where psychiatric MAID has been legal since 2002. As an ethicist and a clinician at Amsterdam Medical University, Dr. van Veen has thought deeply about the thorny ethics of psychiatric MAID. If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.

Kaari Pitkin , Stephanie Joyce and Isaac Jones , Sonia Herrero , Pat McCusker andDaniel Ellsberg fully expected to spend the rest of his life in prison after he leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times and The Washington Post in 1971. The documents revealed decades of government lies and mistakes in about the war in Vietnam, and eventually, they helped end it. The charges against Ellsberg were ultimately dismissed but, he had a secret: The Pentagon Papers were only supposed to be the beginning. Alongside the documents about Vietnam, he’d copied thousands of pages of other documents about America’s nuclear war planning that he believed would shock the public conscience. Now, after revealing a terminal cancer diagnosis in March, Ellsberg is reflecting on his life, the secrets he wasn’t able to reveal and threats to the world he’s leaving behind.

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