by Darcey Rydl, news editor
The Roar keeps you updated with local news, recent events and interesting stories ― everything you need to know for this week.
- On Wednesday, Gabriel Hall, a former Consol student, was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the October 2011 killing of 68-year-old Edwin Shaar and severe injury to Shaar’s wife, Linda.
- This past week, a video was released that witnessed four French hikers survive a 28-foot-fall off the Hopuruahine Suspension Bridge in New Zealand’s Te Urewera National Park. The hikers were on the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk when the cable snapped.
- On Friday, a student was killed and another person wounded during a shooting outside Texas Southern University. That same day, one student was killed and three wounded at Northern Arizona University. Both incidents occurred outside student housing.
- On Saturday, there were two suicide bombings at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey that killed 95 people and wounded hundreds of others. This is considered one of Turkey’s deadliest attacks in years. No one has claimed responsibility.
- Paul Modrich (American), Aziz Sancar (Turkish), and Tomas Lindahl (Swedish) were notified last Wednesday that they won the Nobel Prize for mapping DNA repair. They showed how cells repair when its DNA is damaged.
- The sixth in line for the Swedish throne, five-month-old Nicolas Paul Gustaf, was baptized on Sunday by Sweden’s first female Archbishop Antje Jackelen. This was the first royal baptism for Jackelen.
- On Thursday, Robert Sapolsky, a world-renowned Stanford University neuroscientist, delivered a keynote address at Texas A&M’s stress symposium. His address discussed how animals and humans use stress to survive, but humans cause it on their own, which creates health consequences if it is prolonged. He claimed the disease is on the verge of being the number one killer in the U.S.
- NCAA verified on Saturday that LSU running back Leonard Fournette would not be punished for auctioning off the purple No. 7 jersey he wore at Saturday’s game against the Gamecocks. Fournette has made history by running the fastest 1,000 yards in a season at LSU, and all the money will be donated to South Carolina flood victims.
- Matthew Downing announced on Friday that when the shooter entered the Umpqua Community College in Oregon, the shooter said, “Hey kid with the glasses, you are the lucky one. I will not shoot you if you give this (a flash drive) to the cops.” Downing was the only one singled out to live during the shooting.
- On Saturday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill banning concealed guns from California schools.
