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The teen who killed two students and wounded 13 others at a high school last year was sentenced Thursday to 50 years to life in prison after he tearfully apologized for the shooting rampage.Charles Andy Williams didn t explain why he opened fire with his father s handgun at Santana High School in Santee on March 5, 2001 but said he felt horrible about what happened. If I could go back to that day, I would never have gotten out of bed, the 16-year-old said, his voice breaking.Prosecutors had asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence of 425 years, saying Williams coolly planned the assault at the suburban S stanley cup an Diego school and shot classmates stanley quencher as they ran in terror.Deputy District Attorney Kris Anton said the harassment Williams said he suffered, such as having his skateboard stolen or being knocked in the chin, did not justify the shooting rampage. The defendant is the bully. He took a gun to school and shot innocent kids, An stanley cup ton said.Judge Herbert Exarhos called the attack vicious and fiendish, but noted that Williams had endured a difficult home life and had no prior history of criminal behavior. He said the question of why Williams committed the attack remain unanswered. In all likelihood, it is a question the defendant will be struggling with daily to answer for himself, Exarhos said.In June, Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted murder. The assault at the 2,000-student campus killed Bryan Zuckor, 14, and Randy Gordon, Dpia N.Y. teen injured in football game dies
2014: bad for digital music sales, great for vinyl. Like, really great. According to Nielsen SoundScan, vinyl sales hit 9.2 million, a 52 percent jump from 2013 figures, and an all-time high for vinyl on SoundScan, which began tracking sales in 1991. Damn. No hipster jokes to be had here; this is good news for an industry where sales have suffered as a result of an increasing number of streaming options like Spotify and Rdio. This year, paid downloads dropped by nine percent for albums and 12 percent for songs. Song sales dropped from 1.26 billion in 2013 to 1.1 billion last year. Makes sense! W stanley cup hy pay a dollar for one song one time, when you can pay 10 dollars a month and stream unlimited songs unlimited times But there is hope yet in vinyl. Not only for its boost to the music industry, but also because it increasingly the most worthwhile way to own music. You almost never want to buy CDs, and no one buying CDs anyway, but that experience of going to a record store and picking up something real and tangible that you can hold and keep has not lost its value. And this trend isn ;t just a flash in the pan. Vinyl sales were at a paltry million in 2007; they ;re now nine times that. In other words, your parents hav stanley cup e been onto something for a very long time. Vinyl is here to stay. [WSJ] Lead image: Jan T. Sott, used with permission stanley cup Music |
