Judge to weigh couple’s college admissions plea bargain
Official: Driver who videoed slaying drove to restrain victim
DECATUR, Ga. – Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said the warrant for William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. says he tried “to confine and detain” Ahmaud Arbery by “utilizing his vehicle” before Arbery was shot. Reynolds spoke Friday with Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes about Bryan’s arrest the day before on charges of felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. Bryan, 50, recorded Arbery’s slaying on a cellphone. His attorney, Kevin Gough, has said his client played no role in Arbery’s death.
“Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, entered their guilty plea Friday to paying $500,000 to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California, but a judge has not decided whether he’ll accept their plea deals with prosecutors. Under the deals, Loughlin, 55, hopes to spend two months in prison and Giannulli, 56, is seeking to serve five months in the bribery plot. But U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton said Friday that he needs to consider the presentencing report.
Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million children
LONDON – The coronavirus pandemic is interrupting immunization against diseases including measles, polio and cholera that could put the lives of nearly 80 million children under the age of 1 at risk, according to a new analysis from the World Health Organization and partners. In a report issued Friday, health officials warned that more than half of 129 countries where immunization data were available reported moderate, severe or total suspensions of vaccination services during March and April.
UK to start huge vaccine test; China reports promising hints
LONDON – British researchers testing a vaccine against the new coronavirus are moving into advanced studies and aim to immunize more than 10,000 people to determine if the shot works. Friday’s announcement came as Chinese scientists who are developing a similar vaccine reported promising results from their own first-step testing, seeing hoped-for immune reactions and no serious side effects in 108 vaccinated people. Last month, Oxford University researchers vaccinated more than 1,000 volunteers in a preliminary study.