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Man gets 110 years for killing ex-girlfriend, her grandmother outside Indiana auto seating plant

A man who fatally shot a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana automotive seating plant was sentenced to 110 years in prison FRANKFORT, Ind. -- A man who fatally shot a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana automotive seating plant was sentenced to 110 years in prison by a judge who called the killings “brutal and heinous.” Gary Ferrell II, 28, had avoided a possible death sentence when he pleaded guilty in April to two counts of murder in the 2021 killings of Promise Mays, 21, and Pamela Sledd, 62. He was sentenced Thursday. The Rossville women had driven to NHK Seating of America in Frankfort together and were about to start their shift on Aug. 18, 2021, when Ferrell, a fellow employee, shot them outside the Business . The Frankfort man was arrested after crashing his car in a construction zone shortly after the killings. Clinton Superior Court Judge Justin H. Hunter wrote in his sentencing order that the murders were premeditated and “bruta...

Over and out: Germany switches off its last nuclear plants

Germany has switched off its three remaining nuclear power plants as part of a long-planned transition toward renewable energy BERLIN -- BERLIN (AP) — “Nuclear power, no thanks!” What was once a slogan found on the bumper of many a German car became a reality Saturday, as the country shut down its three remaining nuclear power plants in line with a long-planned transition toward renewable energy. The shutdown of Emsland, Neckarwestheim II and Isar II shortly before midnight was cheered earlier in the day by anti-nuclear campaigners outside the three reactors and at rallies in Berlin and Munich. Inside the plants, staff held more somber ceremonies to mark the occasion. Decades of anti-nu clear protests in Germany, stoked by disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, had put pressure on successive governments to end the use of a Technology that critics argue is unsafe and unsustainable. But with other industrialized countries, such as the United States, Japan, China, Fran...