Authorities ID student found dead at University of Georgia Watch melted by Hiroshima atomic bomb sells for more than $31,000
ATHENS, Ga. – The college student found slain in a wooded area on the University of Georgia’s main campus in Athens has been identified as 22-year-old Laken Riley.
A spokesperson for Augusta University said in an email Friday that Riley was a junior studying at the college of nursing in Athens. Laken was a student at UGA through the spring semester of 2023, before she transferred to Augusta University.
The search for Riley began around noon Thursday after someone called UGA police and reported that a friend had gone to the intramural fields to run and had not returned, said UGA Police Chief Jeffrey L. Clark in a news conference. Soon, officers found her unconscious, not breathing and with “visible injuries” in a wooded area.
Paramedics arrived and determined she was deceased, the chief said. Police had not identified a suspect in the case as of late Thursday night.
Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson told the Athens Banner-Herald an autopsy was underway at the state crime lab to determine the cause of death.
BOSTON – A watch melted during the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima has sold for more than $31,000 at auction.
The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city – 8:15 a.m. – during the closing days of World War ll, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The winning bid in the auction that ended Thursday was $31,113.
The artifact was recovered from the ruins of Hiroshima and offers a glimpse into the immense destruction of the first atomic bomb detonated over a city.
The auction house said that according to the item’s consignor, a British soldier retrieved the wristwatch from the ruins of the city while on a mission to provide emergency supplies and assess post-conflict reconstruction needs at the Prefectural Promotion Hall in Hiroshima.
The winning bidder opted to remain anonymous.
MyPillow CEO ordered to pay $5M to 2020 election data debunker
Mike Lindell must pay $5 million to a software engineer who debunked data that the MyPillow CEO claimed proved that China interfered with the 2020
election, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim made the decision Wednesday, according to court records.
“Plaintiff is awarded $5 million plus post-judgment interest beginning April19, 2023,” court documents show.
Lindell plans to appeal the judge’s decision, The Associated Press reported. When asked if he could dole out the millions, he pointed out that the breach-ofcontract suit was against Lindell Management LLC, and not him personally, the outlet said.
“Of course we’re going to appeal it. This guy doesn’t have a dime coming,” Lindell said, according to the AP.
Officials: Man who killed 3 Minn. responders fired from inside home
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The man who killed two Minnesota police officers and a firefighter-paramedic opened fire on officers without warning while they were inside his house, after they had been negotiating with him for around 31⁄2 hours, investigators revealed Thursday.
Officers inside the home in the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville returned fire and wounded the man before making it outside. The firefighter was shot while aiding the wounded officers, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a statement. In all, the man fired more than 100 rounds at police and first responders, the agency said.
Police were dispatched to the home for what investigators have described as a domestic incident around 1:50 a.m. Sunday. The arriving officers spoke with Shannon Gooden, 38, who refused to leave the home but said he was unarmed and that he had children inside, the BCA said in its first detailed update on the case since Sunday.
Officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and Sgt. Adam Medlicott, 38, are believed to have been first shot inside the home, the BCA said. Medlicott and another officer, who was not injured, returned fire from inside the home, wounding Gooden in the leg, the statement said.
Investigators fault Pittsburgh for maintenance of collapsed bridge
The city of Pittsburgh did not adequately maintain or repair a bridge and failed to act on inspection reports, leading to the corrosion of the structure’s steel legs and its collapse into a ravine, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The city-owned Forbes Avenue bridge fell down on Jan. 28, 2022, plunging a bus and four cars about 100 feet into Fern Hollow Creek. Another vehicle drove off the east bridge abutment and landed on its roof. There were injuries but no one died.
After investigators presented their findings, three members of the National Transportation Safety Board agreed that poor inspections and insufficient oversight were among the probable causes of the collapse.
“The Fern Hollow Bridge collapse should never have happened,” NTSB chair Jennifer L. Homendy said, describing the incident as a wake-up call.
The office of Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said the administration does not dispute the NTSB findings and noted the bridge inspections were performed by consultants.