Nineteen-year-old Taylor Smith was in tears as she was sentenced to two days in jail for pushing her friend off a 60-foot bridge in Washington state. The ruling surprised both sides. Smith had pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment earlier this month and in exchange prosecutors had recommended no jail time. But Clark County District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman disagreed. The … [Read more...]
John Lennon’s Last Day and Death in New York City
On the evening of December 8, 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono stepped out of a limousine by their apartment building. A man pulled out a gun and shot him in cold blood in the vestibule of the building. Police respond to the scene right away. When they saw the amount of blood coming from Lennon's body, they knew they could not wait for an ambulance. They put him in the back of a … [Read more...]