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A man arrested following Saturday's South Carolina mall shooting in which nine people were wounded had opened fire in self-defense in a confrontation with other shooters, his lawyer said Sunday. The man, identified as 22-year-old Jewayne Price, has been released under house arrest and ordered to wear an ankle monitor after a judge set a $25,000 surety bond. Police booked Price on suspicion of unlawful possession of a pistol after questioning him, the Columbia Police Department said. While police have not formally alleged he was a shooter Saturday, he was barred by Bond Court at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center Sunday from contacting victims of the attack, Columbia police said on Twitter. Price was one of three detained as "people of interest" for questioning, Columbia Police Chief W. H. “Skip” Holbrook said Saturday. The two others weren't involved and were released, police said in a statement released overnight. Investigators believe a fight between people … [Read more...] about Man opened fire at South Carolina mall in self-defense, his lawyer says

Kim Dong-ho The author is an editorial writer of the JoongAng Ilbo. Sudo Electric Technical High School located in Gaepodong, Gangnam in Seoul, has been one wonder after another. The principal’s room is called the “celebration room.” The room got its name because it is reserved for parties celebrating a student landing a job or receiving an award. Snacks and drinks are prepared, and the wall screen is lit up with congratulatory message from school principal Chang Dong-won. The student becomes the star of the day. The school is different from others in many ways. Its corridor walls are decorated with Van Gogh paintings. The paintings are not color prints of the masterpieces, but master imitation works. Students become familiar with great works of art. The corridors are decorated to give a gallery-like ambience. The school auditorium is called Sirius Hall, the gym is named after Chung Yak-yong, and the library was christened as the Hyeyoom Pavillion. Sirius is the brightest … [Read more...] about An electrifying eduction

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. “T hink of this as a travel piece,” she might have written. “Imagine it in Sunset magazine: ‘Five Great California Stops Along the Joan Didion Trail.’ ” Or think of this as what it really is: a road trip of magical thinking. I had known that Didion’s Parkinson’s was advancing; seven or eight months earlier, someone had told me that she was vanishing; someone else had told me that for the past two years, she hadn’t been able to speak. I didn’t want her to die. My sense of myself is in many ways wrapped up in the 40 essays in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album . I don’t know how many times I’ve read Democracy . “Call me the author,” she writes in that novel. “Let the reader be introduced to Joan Didion.” There are people who admire Joan Didion, and people who … [Read more...] about Joan Didion’s Magic Trick

Click here to read the full article. Dick Wolf does not take anything for granted. Not even his prowess as one of Hollywood’s most prolific producers. The lord of “ Law & Order ” has taken his television operations to new heights during the 2021-22 television season, which is about to conclude with no less than six Wolf-produced series in primetime’s top 10 rankings. More from Variety Broadcast Rankings: Most and Least-Watched Scripted TV Series of 2021-2022 Season 'Law & Order' and 'Law & Order: Organized Crime' Renewed for New Seasons at NBC 'FBI,' 'FBI: International' and 'FBI: Most Wanted' Renewed for Two New Seasons Each at CBS . Over a long conversation on a deck overlooking the ocean near his home in Montecito, Calif., last month, the 75-year-old writerproducer speaks at length about the changes in television and the revitalization of his Wolf Entertainment banner over the past half-dozen years. Wolf and his loyal team of … [Read more...] about TV at Unprecedented Scale: How Dick Wolf Rebounded to 198 Hours of Drama a Season

As children growing up in Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, my brother and I often had skirmishes, typically brought about by frustrations from living with economic struggles and instability. Over the years, we grew closer as we both matured and had families of our own, and shared holidays and family gatherings. Admittedly we both have strong personalities and there were times we didn't see eye to eye, but our differences never got in the way of our respect and love for one another. Now in our fifties and both with stable lives and incomes, I was stunned at how much had changed between us, and in such a short amount of time. Just three years younger than me, my brother and I were raised in a close-knit Cuban immigrant family, and have always remained close as adults, sharing holidays and gathering regularly for family meals at his home, which had become the family gathering spot. Yet beginning in 2016, he seemed to be transformed from a sweet man with a passing interest in politics to … [Read more...] about “Trump changed my brother, I want him back”

During the pandemic, civil jury trials came to a stop. A few judges experimented with giving jurors iPads and having them view trials remotely. Jury trials are now starting again, but they remain rare. The pandemic may have accelerated a trend that had been emerging for many years: The civil jury trial has been disappearing. Even before the pandemic, the rate of civil cases going to trial in federal court was under 0.5% — a sharp decline from the 5.5% figure of the mid-twentieth century. In state court, the rate of jury trials in civil cases is even lower — under 1%. Professor Valerie Hans at Cornell Law School and her colleagues at Southwestern Law School and the Center for Constitutional Litigation recently published a paper titled "The Civil Jury: Reviving an American Institution" in The Civil Justice Research Initiative documenting the decline of the civil jury trial over the last few decades. According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the rate of federal jury … [Read more...] about The Decline of the Civil Jury Trial: Implications for Trial Practice

Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday began sowing doubt about the results of the neck-and-neck Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania between his endorsed candidate, celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz, and hedge fund manager David McCormick, urging Oz to "declare victory" before all the votes are counted. Pennsylvania, a state Trump won in 2016, but lost in 2020, was at the center of his baseless claims that fraud cost him the election, and he suggested Wednesday something nefarious could happen in Oz's race. Trump falsely claimed victory in Pennsylvania in 2020 and sought to stop mail-in ballots from being counted. On Wednesday, the former president sought to declare on his social media site, Truth Social, that Oz had won, even though the race has not been called. He derided the mail-in ballots, posting: "Here we go again! In Pennsylvania they are unable to count the Mail-in Ballots. It is a BIG MESS. Our Country should go to paper ballots, with same day voting. Just done in … [Read more...] about Trump urges Oz to ‘declare victory’ before vote tally complete in Pennsylvania