Recent black bear sightings, the Dow's lowest day of the year, and what's new in the Box Office.
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1 At least 1 man opened fire on police yesterday as they were serving a warrant in a Philadelphia neighborhood, wounding 6 officers and triggering a standoff that extended into the evening. None of the officers' injuries were considered life-threatening; 2 officers became trapped inside the house amid the gunfire.
2 The Jeffrey Epstein autopsy raises even more questions about his death. He had multiple breaks in bones in and around his neck. The injuries are consistent with someone hanging themselves or death by strangulation.
A Justice Dept official says more than half of the staff in the Metropolitan Correctional Center at the time Jeffrey Epstein killed himself was working overtime. The official said 18 staff members working in the jail, and 10 were them on overtime.
3 Wall Street suffered its worst day of the year when the Dow tumbled 800 points when the bind marketed showed an inverted yield curve..
What’s that? Mark Oberlin is here to make sense and dollars out of it all.
Notables
50 yrs ago, some 500,000 people converged on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY, to celebrate "3 days of Peace and Music." Woodstock ran from August 15-18, 1969, with 33 acts including Janis Joplin, The Who, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Jimi Hendrix taking the stage. The crowd lived in peace without any real security and survived rain, mud, and lack of food through what ended up becoming a free, 4-day concert after overwhelming turnout and weather delays. An effort by original festival promoter Michael Lang to honor the golden anniv with an event fell through due to permit problems and financial troubles, but celebrations will still take place at the original site. Woodstock '69 performer Arlo Guthrie returns to the stage 50 yrs to the day he made the famous proclamation "The New York State through way is closed man!"
Miracle baby Phoenix was taken off life support at 8 months old and was not expected to survive. Now she's about to celebrate her first birthday.
What about 'a' and 'an?' Can the word "the" be trademarked? Guess we're about to find out because "The" OhioStateUniversity has filed an application to trademarkthe article.