Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Power transmission lines deliver electricity to rural Orange County on Aug. 14, 2018, near Hillsborough, N.C. Investigators believe a shooting Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022, that damaged power substations in North Carolina was a crime. The shooting serves as a reminder for why experts have stressed the need to secure the U.S. power grid….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Farmer John Boyd Jr. poses for a portrait during a break from bailing hay at his farm in Boydton, Va., on May 27, 2021. The federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers, according to a class-action lawsuit. The group hopes to put…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Briana Tyler speaks with The Associated Press and uses her hands like a gun as she demonstrates the gunman shooting indiscriminately, as she talks about witnessing the mass shooting at a Walmart, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Chesapeake, Va. Tyler said the overnight stocking team of about 15 or 20 people had just…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Payton Gendron is led into the courtroom for a hearing at Erie County Court, in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, May 19, 2022. Gendron, who massacred 10 Black shoppers and workers at a Buffalo supermarket, has pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges. Payton Gendron entered the plea Monday in an Erie County courtroom….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Cecilia Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, laughs while watching a slide show about her husband during a meeting to rally support for renaming Baltimore-Washington International Airport after Thurgood Marshall, one of the state’s most famous native sons and the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, in Annapolis, Md.,…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing warning that Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield, left, Brenda Alford, Adam Martin, J. Kavin Ross and C.J. Webber-Neal carry excavated human remains to a lab at Oaklawn Cemetery while searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 in Tulsa, Okla. A team of scientists started the process of re-exhuming human remains…

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By Hank Kurz Jr. And Ben Finley ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Three University of Virginia football players killed in an on-campus shooting were remembered Monday by their head coach as “incredible young men with huge aspirations and extremely bright futures.” Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry were juniors returning to campus from…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Former President Barack Obama points to a rendering for the former president’s lakefront presidential center at a community event at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago on May 3, 2017. A federal judge on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the construction of the Obama Presidential…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A person takes a photo of the Schuylkill River after it flooded the Manayunk section of Philadelphia in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on Thursday Sept. 2, 2021. As weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable caused by climate change, transit officials say that more needs to be done to prepare the East Coast’s…

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