The Daily Populous

Tuesday June 6th, 2017 day edition

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Former UFC competitor Jon “War Machine” Koppenhaver on Monday was sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole in 36 years after being convicted on 29 separate charges in connection with an assault committed against his ex-girlfriend Christy Mackinday and her friend Corey Thomas in 2014.

Koppenhaver was found guilty on 29 out of 34 charges in a trial that took place in March in Nevada.

The former UFC fighter would be first eligible for parole in 2053, when he would be 71 years old.

Following the assault, Koppenhaver fled from police before being captured a few days later and placed in custody while awaiting trial.

The jury convicted Koppenhaver on a long list of charges including sexual assault, kidnapping, coercion and battery.

The jury remained hung on two additional charges of attempted murder, but based on the 29 convictions, War Machine still faced life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Ultimately, Judge Elissa Cadish ruled that the former fighter needed to face a substantial penalty for the assault before deciding on life in prison with the possibility of parole in 36 years. »

‘Cash Cab’: Ben Bailey Returns To Host Discovery’s Series Revival

Authored by deadline.com

Ben Bailey is back in the driver’s seat for Discovery’s revival of Cash Cab.

Bailey has guested on multiple TV series and has done a pair of Comedy Central stand-up specials and others for Netflix and Amazon.

Executive producers are Tony Tackaberry, Allison Corn, John Slaughter and Bailey, with Robyn Todd as co-executive producer. »

Want to Resolve the Maternity Leave Catch-22? Pay Dads.

Authored by fatherly.com

“I strongly believe that paid maternity leave is helping mothers and I would not want people to interpret our findings as a reason not to offer maternity leave.

Or—perhaps worse—do coworkers and loved ones judge women who choose to forego those benefits, and consider them bad mothers?

Women who left were seen as less competent employees, while women who stayed were seen as less competent mothers. »

Google Street View vehicles now measuring air pollution

Authored by environment.google

The hypothesis, says Karin Tuxen-Bettman of Google Earth Outreach, was that “we had the potential to turn our Street View fleet into an environmental sensing platform.”.

Street View cars make at least 2 trips around a given area in order to capture good air quality data.

This promising start inspired the team to take the next step and explore using Street View cars to measure overall air quality. »

Pharmacist accused of not filling birth control prescription

Authored by kron4.com

According to the complaint, in 2016 that mom tried to pick up a prescription of Misoprostol for her daughter.

It’s a drug used to prepare patients for getting an IUD, a form of birth control.

Walgreens, at the time, said if filling a prescription went against an employee’s belief, another pharmacist would step in. »