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

... east of Mentone. The driver was not injured. De Kalb County Coroner Tom Wilson said the young girl was crossing the highway when the accident occurred. 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. ...

New Report Shows Life-threatening Moments Of The Canyon Fire

... 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 Captain 253's progress on foot to the safety zone, he noticed that the Helitack Crew's pace picked up and he wasn't able to keep up," states the report. "He began to take deeper breaths 'just swallowing smoke.' Realizing that this was a bad situation.he dropped his tool and his gear and grabbed his shelter.". Just as Engine Captain 253 was about to shelter in place, "He saw people walking by and ...

Our Best Shot At Finding Alien Life

... in 2012. During the touchdown, it will use an autonomous landing system to detect and avoid surface hazards in real time. Clipper will provide the reconnaissance for a landing site. "I like to think of it as finding that right oasis, where there might be water close to the surface. Maybe it's warm and maybe it has organic materials," says Bob Pappalardo. The craft would be equipped with a sensitive instrument payload and a counter-rotating saw to help get at fresher samples below the radiation-processed surface ice. "The lander is all about hitting the freshest, most pristine sample possible. One way to do that is to dig deep, another way is going to where there is some kind of eruption on the surface - like a plume - that's dropping very fresh material onto the surface," says Curt Niebur. In recent years, the Hubble telescope has made tentative observations of plumes of water-ice erupting from beneath Europa, much as they do on Enceladus. But there's no point in the lander going to the site of a ...

Midtown's Club Life, A Scene Of Death, Shuttered By Harris County

... crimes by patrons and staff in the past two years. The most serious incident occurred on December 30, when an argument escalated to a gunfight during which rapper Kionn Lamothe, 25, was killed and two others were wounded. Police recovered 30 shell casings at the scene. According to court papers, other incidents at the club include. - In May 2016, a bouncer punched an unruly patron, breaking his jaw. - In July 2016, a patron complained a Club Life bouncer threatened him with a gun. - In July 2016, a DJ was assaulted and needed staples in his head. - In August 2016, a patron was assaulted and had his teeth broken. - In August 2016, an employee was assaulted by a bouncer. - In August 2016, an underage woman said she blacked out after accepting a drink from a man at the club. The woman woke up in a field across from the club wearing only a bra. - In August 2016, a patron was struck over the head with a liquor bottle and had his wallet stolen. - In October 2016, an employee was stabbed while breaking up a fight. - In January and February of this year, police arrested Club ...

Life' Star Jake Gyllenhaal Fears No Aliens

... the wires, we were straining and engaging and trying to look like we're at ease," Gyllenhaal said. "So she would watch everything and give us notes from take to take.". All the wire and stunt work was physically exhausting, but it became easier with time and practice, Gyllenhaal said. "Flying through some of these structures on the space station was great fun. You dream as a kid of being able to fly, and we literally were flying on this movie, so that was fun.". In the movie "Life," Jake Gyllenhaal plays a doctor aboard the International Space Station named David Jordan. Credit: Sony Pictures/CTMG Inc. Training to fake being in zero gravity is only part of learning to act as an astronaut. Gyllenhaal, who plays a doctor named David Jordan, also spoke with experts in trauma medicine and space medicine to get into the right mentality. Specifically, he worked with Kevin Fong, a space medicine adviser for NASA and author of the book "Extreme Medicine." Fong helped Gyllenhaal understand his character's role and purpose at ...

The Filmmakers Behind Life Strived To Make A Realistic, Modern Version Of Alien

... unit, meaning he had to shoot everything himself. Every dollar is on the screen and every effect is as real as possible, except the alien of course. But even the alien had real roots. Though of course nothing like Calvin actually exists (hopefully), the writers were inspired by underwater creatures and the director took those ideas to real scientists to come up with something that was as plausible as possible. The result is a small organism that eventually becomes a translucent, almost flower-like creature. As far as “This is what an alien might actually look like,” goes, Life is probably as close as we can get. Beyond that, Calvin also represents something quite personal for the director. “In these times, there is a lot of fear about the unknown,” Espinosa said. “And it can take different forms. [And we wonder] what would happen if they enter our space?”. Plus, Life does something different with its creature. “The difference between my movie and others is at the beginning, Calvin is not maleficent,” Espinosa said. “The question is as we continue treating it, ‘Would this have happened?’ To me Calvin is a representation ...

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

... drugs entering his veins. The man, 37-year-old Mark Christeson, was declared dead minutes later, at 7:05 Central time. In Washington, Trump continued to speak, with Judge Neil Gorsuch and his wife now standing behind him. With much of the country tuned in to watch Trump’s much-hyped announcement that night, the execution in Missouri flew under the radar. Convicted of a brutal rape and triple murder committed in 1998, Christeson was not someone likely to inspire widespread concern on any given evening. Yet his execution was a reminder of the kinds of cases Gorsuch would review if confirmed to the Supreme Court. Christeson — a lifelong victim of sexual abuse whose IQ hovered as low as 74 — was abandoned  by his own post-conviction attorneys, who missed a crucial deadline to file his federal habeas appeal in 2005. When outside lawyers tried to step in to correct their gross neglect, courts blocked them at every turn. As Christeson’s execution approached, a group of former state and federal judges raised alarm ...

Tributes Paid To Murdered Pc Keith Palmer After Westminster Attack

... who actually helped save my life. Donations to PC Keith Palmer. “I owe him everything. He was a wonderful dad and wonderful husband to his wife. He was fun, he was a laugh, he cared.”. Meanwhile, on Thursday morning outside PC Keith Palmer's home, a quiet suburban road in Welling, the only sign of the horror caused by the terror attack was the police gathered outside the heroic officer's front door. It is understood PC Palmer's family were home but too upset to speak to anyone outside the family. Watch | John Bercow pays tribute to brave parliamentary police. Neighbours of the 48-year-old, who was stabbed by a terrorist outside Parliament yesterday, expressed their shock at the news. It came after acting deputy commissioner Mark Rowley confirmed Pc Palmer, a father-of-two who was a member of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Squad, had sadly died, despite the efforts of paramedics and Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood to save him. How the ...

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

... Orleans police accused 15-year-old Miqueghele Brown, now 17, of fatally shooting a 17-year-old a New Orleans East apartment complex in July 2015. (NOPD photo). A New Orleans judge refused Thursday (March 23) to rule out a possible life sentence without parole for a teenage murder defendant who is awaiting trial. But in a separate ruling, the judge ensured the teen could be eligible for parole if he were to be convicted but lacked the money to prepare for a mitigation hearing before sentencing. Criminal District Court Judge Arthur Hunter issued the dual rulings in the case of 17-year-old Miqueghele Brown, following a March 17 hearing that again raised the issue of Louisiana's inadequate public funding for indigent defense. In that hearing, an expert estimated the cost to prepare for a pre-sentencing mitigation hearing could reach $75,000. Hunter's ruling essentially would allow Brown, if he were convicted, to seek a sentence that includes probation without needing a so-called Miller hearing. Courts began ...

Man Gets Life Sentences In Murder-for-hire Case

... one of the suspects, but they said they continue to mourn. Emmanuel “Richie” Velasco Gurrola was sentenced to life in prison on each of three counts of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization statute. Velasco, Samuel Velasco Gurrola  and  Dalia Valencia  are accused of plotting to killed to Samuel Velasco Gurrola’s wife, Ruth Sagredo, in order to stop her from testifying against him in a  sexual assault of a minor trial  in El Paso. Authorities say the plot involved killing  Ruth Sagredo; her father, Francisco M. Sagredo Villareal; her sister, Cinthia Sagredo Escobedo ; 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 ...

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

... 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 weird. I’m sure I’ll say this a million times leading up to 2018 but I have mixed feelings about this. Lots of what makes Han Solo so great is his mysterious past and all these events just being hinted at. Now we’re going to actually see them, and as exciting as that is as a fan, you also don’t want the character to be demystified. All we’ve imagined about the young Han will be difficult ...