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Florida Death Penalty Case
New York
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Announces
Comes To Abrupt Halt After
Commuter
Defendant Pleads Guilty
Train Derails;
Free College Plan
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL – A death-penalty murder trial was about to begin in Sanford Tuesday when the defendant, a 20-year-old Al- tamonte Springs man, pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to life in prison.
That halted what was ex- pected to be an unconven- tional affair: a death-penalty trial in a state that has no valid death-penalty statute.
Seminole Circuit Judge John Galluzzo had agreed to let jurors decide whether the accused killer, Davion Stewart, should be given the death penalty even though the Florida Supreme Court declared the state's death- penalty statute unconstitu- tional on Oct. 14.
The defendant was a 20- year-old burglar from Alta- monte Springs who hid, then attacked his 81-year-old neighbor, Jackie Allen Hammer, when he came
Injures 100
Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) commuter train crashed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, this morning, injuring 103 passen- gers, officials said.
The worst injury is believed to be a broken leg, New York Gov. Cuomo said Wednes- day morning.
The Metropolitan Trans- portation Authority said none of the injuries were life threat- ening.
According to a spokesperson for the New York Fire Depart- ment, "One of the rails actually pierced the bottom of the train ... we are fortunate we didn't have more serious injuries."
GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO
Officer Shoots
4 Get ‘No Bail’ AfterTorturing Disabled Man And Posting It On Facebook Live
CHICAGO - Four people were arrested in Chicago after a Face- book Live video showed them torturing a mentally disabled man.
Unarmed Man;
Sam’s Club CEO Steps Down
Davion Stewart pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life.
home from the supermarket on Aug. 1.
Police discovered the vic- tim's body two days later. He had been savagely beaten and his throat had been slashed, Assistant State Attorney Bryanna Bynum said.
Chicago
ALBANY, NY --- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a historic a free college tuition plan last week with former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.
Gov. Cuomo wants fami- lies who make less than $125k a year to be able to send their children to state and city col- leges.
Under the governor’s plan, college students who have been accepted to a state or city university in New York — including two-year commu-
nity colleges — would be eli- gible, provided they or their family earn $125,000 or less a year.
New York already spends $1 billion per year on a tuition assistance program that caps awards at $5,165, the New York Times reports. Current in-state tuition at SUNY schools is $6,470. Nearly one million families with college- aged children would qualify, and the plan is estimated to cost $163 million depending on participation.
Strip Of Duty
Rosalind Brewer, the first woman and the first African-American to head Sam’s Club, stepped down from her position on Friday, reports Fortune.
After five years at the helm of Sam’s Club, Brewer will be replaced by John Furner, Sam’s Club’s chief merchant. Although Brewer said she is leaving the $57 bil- lion-a-year company because “she wants a new challenge,” the word is that she is leaving because Sam’s is lagging be- hind its main competitor, Costco. Her last day on the job will be Feb. 1.
Under Brewer, Sam’s Club
has made large strides in e-
commerce, says Fortune, but
the 650-store chain has strug-
A Chicago judge denied bail for the four suspects involved in the hate crime torture of a special needs man as it is re- vealed they demanded $300 from the victim's mother, ac- cording to a prosecutor at the hearing on Friday.
Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; and sisters Brit- tany, 18, and Tanisha Cov- ington, 24, are facing several charges against them for tor- turing a severely disabled white 18-year-old who suffers from schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder.
Attorneys for the suspects tried to argue for their bail by telling the judge about their background and family life.
The judge asked the suspects: 'Where was your sense of de- cency?'
One of the women filmed as two young men slash the sleeves of the victim’s shirt with knives, then took turns punching him, slapping him and stomping on his head. At one point, one of the men can be seen cutting the victim’s hair
and scalp with a knife, and the victim is later shown bleeding from his injuries.
As the victim cowers with his back to the wall, someone can
CHICAGO --- On Monday morning (Jan. 2), an off-duty officer in Chicago fatally shot an unarmed man, who he re- portedly knew, the Chicago Tribune reports. Following the aftermath of the deadly shoot- ing, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson decided to strip the officer — whose iden- tity is currently sealed — of his law enforcement authority.
The victim, Jose Nieves, 39, reportedly engaged in an argument with the off-duty cop. Following the heated ex- change, the officer, 57, opened fire, striking Nieves multiple times. Within a statement, Johnson said, “I have a lot more questions than I have answers at this time.”
Rosalind Brewer ...was first female and Black to head Sam’s Club.
Brewer joined Walmart in 2006 as regional vice presi- dent, overseeing operations in Georgia. She climbed the ranks to become division president of the Southeast, and later Walmart East. She became CEO of Sam’s in 2012.
Brewer sparked some con- troversy last year when she recounted a meeting with a supplier who had no repre- sentation of women or people of color on his team during a CNN interview.
gled to narrow the sales be heard repeatedly shouting, growth gap with Costco
“F Donald Trump” and “F white people.”
Throughout the 28-minute video — which focuses mostly on the young woman behind the camera — the group laughs, jokes and listens to music as the victim sits motionless on the floor. About halfway through, someone says the man “represents Trump,” and threatens to put him in the trunk of a car and “put a brick on the gas.”
It’s unclear what happens to the victim when the video cuts off.
Chicago police on patrol said they found the disoriented vic- tim walking down the street last Tuesday in shorts, despite the frigid cold, and took him to the hospital for treatment. They said he was mentally dis- abled and appeared to be “in crisis.”
whose growth rates have been several percentage points higher than Sam’s in recent years. Fortune also reports that the average household income of a Costco member is about $120,000, making it much less vulnerable to downturns in consumer spending.
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