i francis can university of tubenville are rewarding students that ditch their smart phones to focus on prayer with more. will: here is lauren green with more. it s really amazing and unplugged scholarships and this last year was a pilot program and a bunch of us gottology and said we ll offer scholarships to students that will ditch smart phones, not for a semester or year but the entire four years that they re at franciscan university. pilot program and 30 students received tuition assistance but 50 more students who did not receive assistance ditched their smart phones as well. they formed a group called humans engaging reality. rachel: that s so wonderful. will: honor code, honor system? absolutely. honor code and system. some funny stories that came out and one student said i was in the airport and had to ask a person for directions.
warning. hours before, that man shot a judge at a courthouse. that s according to police in stubenville. this is the man, nathaniel richmond. a court convicted richmond s son of rape in 2013, but a different judge handled the case. the sheriff in stubenville says richmond ambushed and shot the judge. the judge had a gun and fired back. the judge is expected to be okay. the suspect died in a shootout. mike tobin with details in the midwest bureau. mike? the jefferson county sheriff says there s video of the whole thing. that nate richmond had been out drinking all night. the video shows his car pulls up at the courthouse about 45 minutes ahead of the ambush. when the judge comes walking towards the entrance of the courthouse, the attacker comes out of the car with his gun
blazing. a probation officer was with the judge. it s believed that the probation offer fired the shot but then later it was showed that the judge fired back. the judge says he was definitely armed. with all the nuts running around, i encouraged him to get a weapon. he did. another judge on the bench, i gave him a gun to carry with him because we have nut cases running around the city of stubenville and the country. the attacker, nate richmond, is the father of malik richmond who was convicted of raping a girl in 2012. malik served his time, went to college but the case followed him. he tried to play football at youngstown state but a petition was circulated to ban him from the grid iron. mike? shepard: the judge was overseeing the case involving the shooter? the case from the rape case that judge was from the cincinnati area.
shepard: headlines from the fox news deck. a gunman shot a judge in ohio as he walked to the courthouse. injured him. that s the word from stubenville. investigators say a probation officer shot and killed the suspect. hackers threatening to leak game of thrones. according to the british newspaper, the guardian, hbo refused to pay a multimillion dollar ransom to stop it from happening. the hackers released a company of series e-mails and unaired shows. in london, big ben sounding one last time before it goes silent for four years. it needs renovations and it s going to get it. hundreds showed up to listen to the cheer.
a former elementary scho schoolteacher is back in the news this morning. she was arrested monday in washington state for driving on a suspended license. you may recall she served seven years for raping a 12-year-old student. she was 34 at the time. the two later married. they have two children. out of a juvenile prison this morning. a former stubenville high school football player. the family says he is now a, quote, better person. two students were convicted in the case. it ignited a nationwide debate. the second player serving a two-year sentence for rape.