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☆ How the Case Against Ted Kaczynski, the ‘Unabomber,’ Unfolded
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ted Kaczynski, the confessed killer who attacked academics, business officials and others over nearly 20 years and became known as the Unabomber, died by suicide on Saturday at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., according to three people familiar with the situation. Here are the key facts about his life, the attacks and the long manhunt that led to his capture. Who Was Ted Kaczynski? Two years later, he pleaded guilty to the bombings and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. Image This composite sketch, based on a 1987 spotting of the Unabomber, was the only lead nine years into the bombing spree.

Persons: Ted Kaczynski, Theodore J, Kaczynski, Mr Locations: Butner, N.C, F.B.I, United States

☆ 21 Teenagers Injured in Walkway Collapse at Beach Park in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Five teenagers were airlifted to a hospital and 16 others were also injured when part of an elevated walkway collapsed on Thursday at a park in Surfside Beach, Texas, city officials said. The teenagers, ages 14 to 18, were visiting from Cypress and Tomball, outside Houston, and Spring Branch, outside San Antonio. They were there as part of a summer camp run by the Bayou City Fellowship, city officials said in a news release. Officials said that the collapse occurred at about 1 p.m. at Stahlman Park, a seaside recreation area with access to the beach and views of the Gulf of Mexico. The coastal community of Surfside Beach is about 60 miles south of Houston.

Organizations: Bayou City Fellowship Locations: Surfside Beach , Texas, Cypress, Houston, Spring, San Antonio, Bayou, Stahlman, Gulf of Mexico, Surfside

☆ 7 People Shot Outside High School Graduation in Richmond
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Seven people were shot and several more were injured in a shooting that took place outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday evening, the authorities said. The shooting took place just before 5:15 p.m. outside the Altria Theater, Rick Edwards, the acting chief of the Richmond Police Department, said at a news conference on Tuesday evening. He said officers inside the venue had heard gunshots and responded to the scene, where they had found “multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds.”Three of those who were shot sustained life-threatening injuries, Chief Edwards said. Multiple other people, he said, had gone to local hospitals with injuries other than gunshot wounds, including one person who was “hit by a car during the melee.”Two people were taken into custody, Chief Edwards said. The authorities did not believe that there was an “ongoing threat to the community,” he said.

Persons: Rick Edwards, Edwards, ” Organizations: Richmond Police Department Locations: Richmond , Va

☆ Man Missing in Iowa Building Collapse Is Found Dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The body of one of three men missing after the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, has been recovered a week after a section of the six-story structure collapsed, a spokeswoman for the city said on Sunday. The spokeswoman, Sarah Ott, said in an email that the body of Branden Colvin Sr., 42, was found on Saturday. He is the first person confirmed to have died in the collapse. Two other men — Ryan Hitchcock, 51, and Daniel Prien, 60 — are still missing since part of the building came crashing down on May 28. The city government said in a statement on Thursday that it believed there was “high probability” that the three men could have been “home at the time of the collapse” and that “their apartments were located in the collapse zone.”

Persons: Sarah Ott, Branden Colvin Sr, — Ryan Hitchcock, Daniel Prien Locations: Davenport , Iowa

☆ Explosion-Like Noise Heard Across D.C. Area Was a Sonic Boom, Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A loud noise that was heard across much of the Washington, D.C., area on Sunday afternoon, including in the suburbs of Virginia and Maryland, was caused by a sonic boom from an authorized Defense Department flight, the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management said. It was not immediately clear where the flight originated, what its purpose was or which branch of the military was operating it. A little after 3 p.m. on Sunday, people said on social media that they had heard a loud boom in Washington, D.C., and in Maryland and Northern Virginia. Many said the noise sounded like an explosion, and some said the boom was so strong that it shook their homes. There was another incident involving an aircraft in the vicinity of the Washington metropolitan area on Sunday, though it was not immediately clear that the two events were related.

Organizations: D.C, Department, Annapolis Office, Emergency Management, Twitter, Washington , D.C, Pentagon Locations: Washington, Virginia, Maryland, Annapolis, Washington ,, Northern Virginia

☆ A Black Girl Won the 1908 Spelling Bee. Her Family Is Searching for Her Medal.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before a crowd of thousands in Cleveland on June 29, 1908, Marie C. Bolden, 14, defied the odds and won what is believed to be the first national spelling bee competition. She was the only Black participant. Children on teams from Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa. — who had initially refused to compete against Ms. Bolden — shook her hand when she won. “I did not enter the spelling contest for personal glory,” Ms. Bolden, the daughter of a mail carrier, told a reporter from The New York Times as she stepped from the stage. “But to try to help bring honor to my teacher and my school.”

Persons: Marie C, Bolden, Cleveland, —, Bolden —, “, ” Ms, ” Organizations: National Education, The New York Times Locations: Cleveland, New Orleans, Northern, Pittsburgh, Erie, Pa

The online profile being investigated also includes several pictures showing a black tactical vest with an RWDS patch. In addition, the profile includes a screenshot from Google Maps showing the time at which the mall where the shooting took place was likely to be busiest. Even so, one fact weighed heavily on the suburban community outside Dallas where the murders occurred: There were children among the victims. Although the police would not indicate how many children died, officials including President Biden acknowledged that there were more than one. As of Sunday afternoon, one patient had been transferred to a children’s hospital and was in fair condition.

☆ Submerged Island Off Florida Reveals Secret: Civil War-Era Cemetery
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Wearing snorkels and fins, they swam in straight lines, he said, searching for remnants of life. “The very first thing we came across was a single post,” Mr. Marano said. “Basically like a pipe sticking out of the sand. “This is a pretty good bet,” he said, “that this is that building.”Nearby, one of Mr. Marano’s students, Devon Fogarty, swam up to a slab of sandstone that was covered in algae and sand. But there was one clean spot where there appeared to be an inscription.

☆ Six Dead After Dust Storm Causes Crashes on Interstate 55 in Illinois
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Six people were killed and more than 30 people were injured in crashes caused by “excessive winds” that blew dust from nearby farms onto Interstate 55 in a rural section of central Illinois, on Monday morning, leading to “zero visibility” conditions, the Illinois State Police said. The crashes, which took place just before 11 a.m. in Farmersville, Ill., south of Springfield, involved about 20 commercial vehicles and 40 to 60 cars, including two tractor-trailers that caught fire, the police said in a statement. The people injured were between 2 and 80 years old, and their injuries ranged from minor to life-threatening, the authorities said, noting that it had been difficult to extract people from their vehicles, some of which were engulfed in flames. “This is a difficult scene, something that is very hard to train for something that we really haven’t experienced locally,” Kevin Schott, the director of Montgomery County’s emergency management agency, said at a news conference on Monday.

☆ Opinion | The Lesson of Murphy, the Eagle Who Tried to Hatch a Rock
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Margaret Renkl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I once took an orphaned deer mouse to a nearby wildlife rehabilitator, and she cautiously introduced it to a nursing house mouse who was also in her care. The mouse accepted the baby stranger of another species and raised it as her own. Even in the wild, there are documented instances of what appears to be interspecies adoption — a killer whale raising a pilot whale calf, a southern right whale raising a baby humpback, a lioness raising a leopard cub. Plus, RockBaby wasn’t gaping for food or crying for help in that impossible-to-ignore way of needy babies everywhere. RockBaby wasn’t even animate.

A Texas gunman who was being sought in connection with the fatal shooting of five people on Friday night after a neighbor asked him to stop firing his weapon remained at large, the authorities said on Sunday. The gunman, Francisco Oropesa, 38, refused a request by the neighbor to stop shooting because the noise was keeping his baby awake. Instead, the authorities said, Mr. Oropesa retrieved an AR-15 and opened fire at his neighbor’s home in Cleveland, Texas. Mr. Oropesa, officials said, shot several members of the same family. At a news conference on Sunday, the authorities said that more than 200 law enforcement officers were looking for Mr. Oropesa and that they had no leads regarding his whereabouts.

☆ Thunderstorms Lash Parts of the South, Spawning Tornadoes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At least three tornadoes hit Florida on Thursday evening, damaging homes and downing trees and power lines, as severe thunderstorms tore across parts of the Southeast, the National Weather Service in Tallahassee said. No injuries were reported, according to local officials, who said emergency workers were still trying to assess the damage. “We have power lines down and no power,” said Lisa Shuler, the assistant emergency management director of Liberty County. About 50 miles southwest, in the city of Lynn Haven, residents reported golf ball-size hail that smashed into their homes and cars. Trees and roofs had also been damaged, an operator with the Lynn Haven Police Department said by phone.

☆ Two U.S. Army Helicopters Crash in Alaska, Killing 3 Soldiers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two U.S. Army helicopters returning from a training flight crashed in Alaska on Thursday with four people aboard, killing three soldiers and injuring the fourth, Army officials said. The Army’s 11th Airborne Division confirmed the deaths late Thursday, saying that the two AH-64 Apache helicopters had crashed near Healy, Alaska, which is more than 200 miles north of Anchorage. Two of the four soldiers were declared dead at the crash site, and a third died on the way to a hospital in Fairbanks, it said. “This is an incredible loss for these soldiers’ families, their fellow soldiers, and for the division,” Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler, the division’s commanding general, said in a statement. John M. Pennell, a spokesman for 11th Airborne Division, said that he did not yet have details on the injured soldier’s condition.

☆ ‘Baseball Size’ Hail Falls in Texas as Storms Whip Across South
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hail as large as baseballs fell in Texas on Wednesday, officials said, as thunderstorms whipped across parts of the American South and forecasters warned of possible damage from flying debris and flash flooding in low-lying areas over the next two days. Storms across Central Texas were producing “very large, destructive hail” early Wednesday evening, including four-inch specimens that fell over Waco, a city south of Dallas, the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth said on Twitter. Waco’s police department said that one of its officers’ cars had been hit with “baseball-size hail.” Unconfirmed reports streaming into the National Weather Service said that hail falling around Texas ranged from the size of nickels to golf balls. Forecasters said they expected the storm system to push east on Thursday and Friday, potentially producing hail in Florida and flooding along the Gulf Coast.

☆ Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight Founder, Expects to Depart ABC News Amid Layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Nate Silver, the founder and editor of the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight, said on Tuesday that he expected to leave ABC News as layoffs rattle its parent organization, the Walt Disney Company. Mr. Silver, who started FiveThirtyEight in 2008, and was affiliated with The New York Times from 2010 to 2013, said on Twitter that the Disney layoffs had “substantially impacted” the site. “I am sad and disappointed to a degree that’s kind of hard to express right now. We’ve been at Disney almost 10 years,” he wrote. “My contract is up soon and I expect that I’ll be leaving at the end of it.”Mr. Silver noted that he had begun having conversations about other opportunities, because he had been worried about “an outcome like this.”

☆ Northern Lights Are Seen in Places Where They Normally Aren’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | Derrick Bryson Taylor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The sky over an unusually wide swath of the northern hemisphere lit up with a brilliant display of color overnight into Monday morning, dazzling people across North America and Europe. The display was potentially visible as far south as Iowa in the United States, as well as in parts of southern England, scientists said. The phenomena, known as the aurora borealis or northern lights, occurs when particles emitted by the sun collide with particles that are already trapped around Earth’s magnetic field, and can often be seen from parts of Iceland, Canada and Alaska. But on Friday, the sun let off a large burst of energy, said Robert Steenburgh, a space scientist with the Space Weather Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (These bursts are also known as coronal mass ejections.)

☆ SpaceX’s Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As the most powerful rocket ever built blasted from its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday, the liftoff rocked the earth and kicked up a billowing cloud of dust and debris, shaking homes and raining down brown grime for miles. In Port Isabel, a city about six miles northwest where at least one window shattered, residents were alarmed. “It was truly terrifying,” said Sharon Almaguer, who, at the time of the launch, was at home with her 80-year-old mother. During previous launches, Ms. Almaguer said she had experienced some shaking inside the brick house, but “this was on a completely different level.”Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship exploded minutes after liftoff and before reaching orbit. Near the launch site, the residents of Port Isabel, known for its towering lighthouse and less than 10 miles from the border with Mexico, were left to deal with the mess.

☆ Man Sentenced to 10 Months for Leaving Nooses and Racist Notes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Michigan man who tried to intimidate Black Lives Matter supporters by leaving nooses and threatening notes around his community and making racist phone calls in the summer of 2020 has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison and a year of supervised release, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday. The man, Kenneth D. Pilon, 62, pleaded guilty in December to two misdemeanor counts of willfully intimidating and attempting to intimidate citizens from engaging in lawful speech and protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to federal prosecutors. On June 14, Mr. Pilon, a retired optometrist, made nine phone calls to Starbucks stores in Michigan in which he told the employees who answered to make racist slurs toward their colleagues who wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts, prosecutors said. He also told one employee that he planned to lynch a Black person, they added. Happy protesting!” the Justice Department said.

☆ Moonbin, Member of K-Pop Band ASTRO, Dies at 25
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Moonbin, a member of the K-pop band ASTRO, died on Wednesday at his home in Seoul. The pop star’s death was confirmed by the band and its management agency in a statement in Korean posted to Twitter. “On April 19, ASTRO member Moonbin suddenly left us and has now become a star in the sky,” the agency said. Moonbin, born Jan. 26, 1998, was an actor, dancer and model as well as a singer, who also performed as part of the band Moonbin & Sanha. ASTRO, originally a six-person male K-Pop group, shot to fame in 2016 with their debut EP “Spring Up.” They were named to Billboard’s top 10 list of new K-Pop groups that year.

Mr. Carter had asked the authorities to leave, and they did, according to the police report obtained by the A.P. The following day, a housekeeper who heard Mr. Carter’s dogs barking and did not receive a response from him let herself into his home, according to the police report. She found Mr. Carter, wearing a T-shirt and necklace, submerged in the Jacuzzi-style bathtub with the jets running, and called 911, according to the report. The operator told the housekeeper to pull Mr. Carter out of the tub and perform CPR. Paramedics immediately declared him dead when they arrived, the police said.

☆ About 18,000 Cattle Are Killed in Fire at Dairy Farm in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The 911 calls came in rapid succession, with reports of an explosion and fire on Monday that officials would later say had trapped one female employee and thousands of cattle inside a milking parlor at a dairy farm in Dimmitt, Texas. As emergency responders approached after 7 p.m., they witnessed the thick plume of smoke, mushrooming over the plains. “While devastating, I’m grateful that there were no further injuries,” Sid Miller, the Texas agricultural commissioner, said in a statement. As for the cattle, he noted, around 18,000 had died. “This was the deadliest barn fire for cattle in Texas history,” Mr. Miller added.

☆ A Couple Decided to Swap Their Family Home in Pennsylvania for a California Rental. Which One Did They Choose?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And Mr. Adams, an executive director in cybersecurity for Comcast, was tied down by his job. The pandemic, too, had changed the landscape: Mr Adams was largely working remotely and was free to move. “We thought, are we going to be able to swing it?” Ms. Adams said. “We needed to be near Pepperdine,” Ms. Adams said, adding that other requirements included ample parking (the family has several cars), storage space and a yard. They also wanted at least three bedrooms, two bathrooms and enough space for Mr. Adams to work from home.

A blast of Arctic air will also plunge much of the country into bitter and, in some cases, dangerous cold, forecasters say. In some parts of this area, the wind chill could reach as low as minus 70 degrees, according to the Weather Service. Brief bursts of moderate to heavy snow lasting an hour or two are likely to occur immediately behind the Arctic front. Strong southerly winds, combined with the new moon-tide cycle, could also bring coastal flooding from northern New Jersey to northeast Massachusetts, the Weather Service said. Meteorologists warned local residents that this is not a normal lake effect event with a narrow band of heavy snow.

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