The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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1 Charlottesville sentencing:
Daniel Borden, one of four men convicted of beating a black man at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. In May, Borden entered a plea acknowledging there was enough evidence to convict him but that did not acknowledge guilt for taking part in the malicious wounding of DeAndre Harris at the “Unite the Right” rally.
2 Survivor injured:
A woman who lost her leg in the Boston Marathon bombing faces another long recovery after being struck by a car in Boston. The driver was cited for failure to stop for a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk. The woman, Adrianne Haslet, wrote on Instagram: “Thrown into the air and landed, crushing the left side of my body. I’m completely broken. More surgery to come.”
3 Traffic squeeze:
A major thoroughfare for commuters along downtown Seattle’s waterfront is set to shut down for good Friday, ushering in what officials say will be one of the most painful traffic periods in the history of the booming Pacific Northwest city. The aging, doubledecker, 2.2-mile Alaskan Way Viaduct, which was damaged in a 2001 earthquake, will be replaced by a new four-lane tunnel.
4 Suspicious packages:
Several foreign diplomatic missions were evacuated in the Australian cities of Melbourne and Canberra on Wednesday after they received packages containing suspicious substances. Police, fire crews and ambulances were seen at a number of foreign consulates in Melbourne, including those of India, Germany, Italy, Spain and South Korea.
5 Chargesfiled:
Texas authorities filed a capital murder charge against a black man they believe fired the bullet that killed a 7-yearold black girl in a drive-by shooting her family initially believed was racially motivated. Prosecutors believe Larry D. Woodruffe, 24, killed Jazmine Barnes on Dec. 30 as she and her family drove to a grocery store in Houston. The family initially described the shooter as a white man driving a red pickup truck, prompting concerns it was a hate crime.