Robert Thomas and Cheron Selton were charged in Allegheny County for killing five people. After four years of pretrial detention, one had charges dismissed and the other was acquitted at trial.
Michael "Doc" and Tina Shelton recently made a trip from Alta Loma, Calif., to North Dakota on a quest. The retired couple was looking to buy the final coffee mug in their state collection. Having taught engineering at Cal Poly Pomona University,.
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Darnell Mahone logged in to the federal court hearing Tuesday to watch the man he believes killed his daughter in a mass shooting plead guilty to a gun charge.
It isn’t as much as he’d hoped for the plea agreement Cheron Shelton reached with the U.S. Attorney’s office calls for an eight-year prison sentence. Mahone said afterward, “it’s better than nothing.”
“We’re happy something was done after all the mess that happened with the other trial,” Mahone said.
that, goose bumps! all right, mark daniel, it s a beautiful day, my hometown of atlanta, it s 80 degrees, you re sitting there, you re graduating, if you re like me, you kind of had one ear on the commencement speaker and then he drops this life-changing bomb. dipped you hear him or were you like, what? and that s the funny thing about it. everybody was enjoying the speech, a very good speech. and then i told my friend, i think we should perk our ears up, having no idea what was about to happen. and then he said the line, i m going to put a little fuel in your bus, and then i see ears start to perk up, within ten seconds the, the entire class was standing up in celebration. wila little fuel in the bus. a lot of fuel in the bus. a lot of fuel in the bus. i mean, tina, as a single mom, having worked and sacrificed and, you know, outside of student loans, you ve single handedly paid for your child s tuition, what were you thinking when you heard this man say, a little fuel in the bus?
loans. [ cheers and applause ] the surprise announcement left people speechless, just look at the shock and belief on this professor s face, lower left there. morehouse s president called it a liberation gift. the man behind this is billionaire tech investor robert smith. morehouse says the total amount he will eventually pay is to be determined, but guaranteed it will be in the millions. mark daniel shelton is a morehouse man, proud grad, price of 2019, and his proud mom, tina shelton are joining me from atlanta. congratulations. thank you! goose bumps just watching