A former Oklahoma City police officer has been sentenced to 263 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on African American women. Wearing a prison-issued orange jumpsuit, the 29-year-old former officer sat silently as the sentence was handed down. Prosecutors proved that Holtzclaw used his position of authority to prey on 13 women in a low-income neighborhood near the state capitol, forcing himself upon them after stopping them while on patrol to check for outstanding warrants or drug paraphernalia. Holtzclaw was convicted last month of 18 counts, including first-degree rape, forcible oral sodomy, sexual battery, procuring lewd exhibition and second-degree rape.
- 1/21/2016
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
A former Oklahoma City police officer has been sentenced to 263 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults on African American women. Wearing a prison-issued orange jumpsuit, the 29-year-old former officer sat silently as the sentence was handed down. Prosecutors proved that Holtzclaw used his position of authority to prey on 13 women in a low-income neighborhood near the state capitol, forcing himself upon them after stopping them while on patrol to check for outstanding warrants or drug paraphernalia. Holtzclaw was convicted last month of 18 counts, including first-degree rape, forcible oral sodomy, sexual battery, procuring lewd exhibition and second-degree rape.
- 1/21/2016
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
Steve Jobs closed Apple's iPhone 4 antennagate affair with a press presentation last Friday, and though portions of the media are still fretting over the matter, one group of important stakeholders are convinced it's over: analysts.
Different opinions have been stirred up by Job's explanation to the press, and while Consumer Reports is still puzzlingly confident in their unscientific "no recommended buy" investigation, other media players--like Dibert creator Scott Adams--were won over by Jobs' skill in explaining what was going on in clever, measured, scientific terms.
iPhone sales seem to have been pretty high throughout the affair, so the buying public didn't appear to need convincing--it was possibly a media storm in a teacup, and Jobs himself even acknowledged this effect several times during the press event, at one point going so far as noting Apple needs "you guys [the invited press] to help" quell the furor. Apart from the general public, the...
Different opinions have been stirred up by Job's explanation to the press, and while Consumer Reports is still puzzlingly confident in their unscientific "no recommended buy" investigation, other media players--like Dibert creator Scott Adams--were won over by Jobs' skill in explaining what was going on in clever, measured, scientific terms.
iPhone sales seem to have been pretty high throughout the affair, so the buying public didn't appear to need convincing--it was possibly a media storm in a teacup, and Jobs himself even acknowledged this effect several times during the press event, at one point going so far as noting Apple needs "you guys [the invited press] to help" quell the furor. Apart from the general public, the...
- 7/20/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
It's Saturday, March 13, 2010, when Dread arrives to the snowy set of director Elise Robertson's horror feature Donner Pass. Penned by Scott Adams and executive produced by Mouncey Ferguson, who financed the film, the independent feature tells the story of an unlucky group of teens who, while on a ski trip in the mountains around Lake Tahoe, encounter George Donner, an entity with a taste for human flesh, and unfortunately for the group, it's for their own.
Setting foot into the remote mountain cabin that production has secured, and at present is being utilized as base-camp, I meet associate producer Duncan Ferguson, who fills us in on the status of Donner Pass, starring John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as 'Epstein', Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as 'Nicole', Desiree Hall as 'Kayley', and Antonio Trischitta as 'Brody', with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin...
Setting foot into the remote mountain cabin that production has secured, and at present is being utilized as base-camp, I meet associate producer Duncan Ferguson, who fills us in on the status of Donner Pass, starring John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as 'Epstein', Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as 'Nicole', Desiree Hall as 'Kayley', and Antonio Trischitta as 'Brody', with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin...
- 3/26/2010
- by SeanD.
- DreadCentral.com
Dread Central recently caught up with producer Jude S. Walko, who tipped us off to his upcoming horror feature Donner Pass, which is set to shoot in Los Angeles and its surrounding environs next month.
Directed by Elise Robertson from a script by Scott Adams, Donner Pass is set to star John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as ‘Epstein’, Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as ‘Nicole’, and Desiree Hall as ‘Kayley’, with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin and Colley Bailey and seasoned vets Thomas Kopache, Eric Pierpoint, Joel Stoffer, Russ Russo, and Kevin Kearns. Mouncey Ferguson III, who independently financed the film, serves as executive producer with Walko on board in the capacity of producer.
The story? “Over a long weekend,” Walko informed us of the flick’s narrative, “a group of angst-ridden teens are invited up to their friend's parents' remote cabin in Donner Pass,...
Directed by Elise Robertson from a script by Scott Adams, Donner Pass is set to star John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as ‘Epstein’, Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as ‘Nicole’, and Desiree Hall as ‘Kayley’, with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin and Colley Bailey and seasoned vets Thomas Kopache, Eric Pierpoint, Joel Stoffer, Russ Russo, and Kevin Kearns. Mouncey Ferguson III, who independently financed the film, serves as executive producer with Walko on board in the capacity of producer.
The story? “Over a long weekend,” Walko informed us of the flick’s narrative, “a group of angst-ridden teens are invited up to their friend's parents' remote cabin in Donner Pass,...
- 2/25/2010
- by SeanD.
- DreadCentral.com
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