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JULY 2, 2015
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New York Prison Fugitives Finally Caught
This burger will have you seeing red. In Japan, fast-food goers will have the rosy opportunity to chow down on an Aka Samurai Burger, an all-red bun with a slice of red tomato along with bright-red cheese. In case you haven’t figured it out, “aka” means red in Japanese. And if you need more red on your burger, it’s decorated with a spicy sauce that the chain describes as an “angry” sauce. Don’t know what it’s angry about. Maybe it doesn’t like the color red.
Good Luck Glasses It was a case of good luck that didn’t seem too good at first. Bob Sabo of Easton, Connecticut, couldn’t wait in line to buy a lottery ticket this week, so he headed to the vending machine to purchase his lucky numbers. But Sabo wears glasses and this time he left them at home. Just his luck: instead of buying two $20 tickets, he bought a $30 ticket. When he got home, though, he realized that he was a winner—the glasses-less man is now $30,000 wealthier because of his spectacles snafu. You know, Bob, it’s all good. Sometimes, though, you just have to look a little deeper.
She’s 87-years-old, but don’t let that fool you. On Sunday, Brigitta Sinka clinched a world record for playing the most games of simultaneous chess when she replaced 1920s Cuban grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca for the title. Almost 60 years since her first simultaneous games, on six boards side-by-side at a Chess Olympiad in 1957, Brigitta Sinka overtook the magic 13,545 number attributed to Capablanca (1888-1942), one of the world’s best-ever players. “I wanted to stop for a moment so everyone could reflect in memory of Capablanca,” Sinka, a former top amateur, related. “There were so many people waiting for me to move my pieces however, so I simply carried on,” she added. By late-Sunday, she was already well over 13,600 games – clocking up over the week the final few hundred games needed to beat the old record – before calling it a day. “We feel privileged to have been one of the many thousands,” said Jozsef Csabi, 37, who brought along his teenage son to play Sinka, or Auntie Bici (pronounced “Bitzi”) as she is widely known. Since the 1950s, Sinka clocked up thousands of simultaneous games around Hungary playing at summer camps for schoolchildren hosted by her employer for many decades, a communist-era metal recycling firm.
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For the very first time, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has addressed the public. The terrorist has been mostly silent since his arrest and during the trial he declined to testify on his own behalf. On Wednesday, though, Tsarnaev took the opportunity to speak and at his sentencing hearing he addressed a crowded courtroom. The 21-year-old apologized for his role in the terror attack that left three people dead and injured nearly 300. “If there is any lingering doubt, I did it, along with my brother,” the 21-year-old said of the terror attack that left three people dead and injured nearly 300. His audience was comprised of family members and survivors who sat shaken two years after his cruel actions left many maimed and injured. “I pray to Allah to bestow his mercy on you,” Tsarnaev said. “I pray for your relief, for your healing, for your well-being, for your strength.” Earlier in the hearing, bombing survivors and family members of those killed or injured in the bombings delivered victim impact statements, directly addressing Tsarnaev about the suffering and loss he caused. “I don’t know what to say to you,” Patricia Campbell, mother of bombing victim Krystle Campbell, told Tsarnaev. “What you did to my daughter was disgusting.’’ In conclusion to the session, before handing down a sentence of death by lethal injection Judge George O’Toole spoke to Tsarnaev. “When people remember you, they will remember only the evil you have done,” O’Toole said. “No one will remember that your teachers were fond of you, that you were funny, a good athlete. What will be remembered is that you murdered and maimed innocent people.” Tsarnaev was then cuffed and led out of the courtroom by U.S. Marshals; he didn’t look back.
New Yorkers in upstate New York can finally stop holding their breath and sleeping with one eye open. The two dangerous prison escapees have finally been caught. After eluding authorities for three weeks, Richard W. Matt and David Sweat have been found—one dead and one alive. After Matt and Sweat’s original plan to catch a ride to Mexico with a prison employee fell through, the two murderers wandered through the thick woods upstate heading for Canada. The two men spent their days resting and gearing up and mostly traveled at night. They stole food and supplies from unoccupied hunting cabins along the way. By Saturday, Mr. Matt had been found and was killed by a federal agent. Just three days later, Mr. Sweat was taken into custody alive but in serious condition after being shot twice by a state trooper. Sweat left his older accomplice, Matt, behind five days before his capture because he felt he was slowing him down. Until the end of last week, authorities had few leads but when Matt fired a shot at a moving camper trailer in an attempt to steal it, the driver reported the incident and investigators blanketed the woods. When authorities heard the escapee cough, they were able to pinpoint his location. He was shot three times and ultimately killed by a federal agent. Later that day, investigators found a chocolate wrapper in an area off Webster Street in Malone, north of where Matt was killed, that they later determined had traces of Sweat’s DNA. Early on Sunday morning, a group of teenagers in Constable, N.Y., reported meeting a man roaming in a ditch who hid his face from them when they asked if he needed help. Officers rushed to the area, and late Sunday afternoon, Sgt. Jay Cook of the New York State Police noticed Sweat running north along a roadway, just several miles from Canada. He chased him across a hayfield and shot Sweat twice in the torso, ending the long, historic manhunt. After the 23-day manhunt, it was revealed that neither convict made it more than 40 miles from the Clinton Correctional Facility, from which they escaped. On Sunday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reassured residents. “The nightmare is finally over. We wish it didn’t happen in the first place. But if you have to have it happen, this is how you want it to end.”
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