A 1982 Georgia Supreme Court ruling could let Six Flags escape liability for a teacher's fatal fall from the Goliath coaster, lawyers say. Theme parks there only owe riders "ordinary care," a far lower bar than the "extraordinary diligence" required of buses and trains.
— via NY Post, Jared Downing
A $2 antique-shop photo got a $5 million appraisal after researchers claimed it showed Billy the Kid playing croquet in 1878. The identification is disputed, and unlike a confirmed $2.3 million sale of another Kid tintype, this one was never actually sold at that price.
— via Hoodline, Wes Whitmore
Jack Dorsey's $31.9 million Sea Cliff compound has had workers on site for nearly 14 years straight. One permit alone took from 2013 to 2017 to clear, and city records show a parade of follow-up filings for everything from retaining walls to a plunge pool kept the scaffolding up.
— via Hoodline, Tony Ng
A private school roof caved in Thursday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 28 children and a female teacher. More than 50 others were hurt in the collapse.
— via NPR, The Associated Press
Amazon's Bee wearable undercuts rivals like Plaud and Pocket with a $74.99 wristband that records conversations and turns them into calendar invites, to-dos and summaries. A new $99.99 phone-mounted version and deeper Alexa integration arrive too, with raw audio deleted and transcripts locked behind keys only the user controls.
— via TechCrunch, Sarah Perez
A press secretary's phantom bar admission, Alex Kozinski back on his soapbox, and the ABA's diversity retreat landing on adjuncts. Plus a four-word challenge to spook any lawyer and the first signs of this year's bonus season.
— via Above the Law, Above the Law
Publishers once made authors pay thousands just to quote a song lyric. Now they're letting AI companies swallow whole books under "fair use" while quietly using the same technology for marketing copy, Maris Kreizman writes.
— via Literary Hub, Maris Kreizman
A sedan tore through a Buena Park apartment's first floor Wednesday, trapping a resident under the wreckage while both people in the car walked away unhurt. Crashes like it happen roughly 100 times a day nationwide, far more often than federal crash data ever shows.
— via Hoodline, Ben Levine
A Houston man posed online as a 12-year-old boy to lure girls as young as 9 in a California town, coercing them into sending explicit images before investigators traced him through his home and workplace. He got 30 years, lifetime supervised release and a $24,400 bill: arrested as he was heading out for a work trip to Singapore.
— via Hoodline, Darnell Ferraro
A leaked draft shows Canada and the EU planning to let Canadian firms bid on cloud and AI contracts normally reserved for European companies, plus a joint buy of 50 Canadian water bombers due by 2030. The push, dated ahead of an Oct. 29 Montreal summit, aims to cut reliance on the US and its tech giants.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
A Camarillo contractor used his base credentials to film F-35s, an F-15E and military helicopters inside restricted areas at Naval Base Ventura County, prosecutors say. He now faces 14 federal counts and up to 12.5 years, though officials stop short of alleging espionage.
— via Hoodline, Latoya Petree
Advance voting in Vancouver's mayoral race is up 60 per cent from 2022, with more than 103,000 ballots already cast. Three "spoiler" candidates insist they're not splitting the vote between frontrunners Ken Sim and Pete Fry, even as polling narrows the contest to a two-person fight.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
A septic leak at a historic Olema hotel sent sewage into Olema Creek and on toward Tomales Bay, prompting state health officials to shut down every commercial shellfish growing area in Marin County. Hog Island Oyster Co. has pulled product and shifted orders to its Humboldt Bay farm while it waits out a closure that could stretch to October 30.
— via Hoodline, Eileen Vargas
Eby claimed Conservatives tried to topple his government 13 times, Doerkson pitched a tax cut to inject $2 billion into the economy, and Lowan made proportional representation her price for power. Two breakaway leaders who missed the debate stage crashed it anyway, by tape.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
A Santa Fe yoga teacher says a toe-poking exercise on her studio floor unlocked buried memories from before birth, feeding directly into poems about disordered eating. Her method: treat movement itself as a first draft, then write down what the body already knows.
— via Literary Hub, Emily Hyland
Canada hasn't played a home match since beating the U.S. last August, and it picks world No. 1 England to break that drought. More than 18,000 fans are expected at BMO Field Friday, a North American record for standalone women's rugby, weeks after Canada snapped England's 39-game winning streak with a draw in Exeter.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
Kim Il Sung grew up in a devout Presbyterian family near a city once called the "Jerusalem of the East." A Cundill Prize finalist spent twelve years tracing how that upbringing shaped North Korea's personality cult, and picks five books that got him there.
— via Literary Hub, Jonathan Cheng
The NYPD let an officer retire before facing trial for a teen's fatal shooting, then sat on required paperwork that could have barred him from policing anywhere else in the state. The delay only ended the same day the victim's family went public demanding answers.
— via The City, Greg B. Smith
A Ring camera caught it all: a 35-year-old father shot dead outside his Union City home as he climbed onto his motorcycle. Four years later, police still have no suspect and are asking anyone with information to come forward.
— via Hoodline, Nina Singh-Hudson
Not enough here to summarize: the excerpt is just a donation appeal and site navigation, with no article content to report on.
— via 3 Quarks Daily, Morgan Meis
Vancouver chef Keith Pears just helped Canada take silver at the Bocuse d'Or Americas, earning a shot at the 2027 Lyon final. On Nov. 1, a 12-station fundraiser at the Sheraton Wall Centre foots the bill for getting him there.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
Nikole Hannah-Jones once begged a Brooklyn superintendent for help after her daughter's fourth grade math went ungraded for a year. Now that superintendent is schools chancellor, and he's walking into a town hall built around her essay on the system that failed her kid.
— via Gothamist, Jessica Gould
Ottawa says it will extend mental health, addictions and home care funding to provinces by one year, worth $1.2 billion. The move follows warnings from provincial health ministers of "profound and negative" effects on patients if the money lapsed.
— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author
A million New Yorkers have left the state since 2020, chasing lower costs elsewhere, while one 32-year-old moved back into her parents' house near Syracuse to retrain for a $5.5 billion chip factory that hasn't finished being built.
— via Gothamist, Jimmy Vielkind
Mountain View is picking between 9 and 12 pickleball courts for a Clyde Avenue site next to a golf course, and a nearby worker already worries about sound and stray balls hitting parked cars. The survey closes October 21, with construction not expected until early 2028.
— via Hoodline, Tony Ng
