Odin Lloyd’s mother and other family members delivered their victim impact statements after former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder in the June 2013 death of Lloyd. Before Hernandez was formally sentenced, Lloyd’s mother, Ursula Ward, addressed the courtroom. Ward said called her son the “backbone” of the family and she forgives those responsible for her son’s murder. “I forgive the hands of the people who had a hand in my son’s murder,” Ward said.

Diagnosing breast cancer can be a worrisomely old-school process. For all of the 21st century tech that can image tumors, the ultimate diagnosis still rests with the radiologist’s eyes and judgment. With 30 million breast-cancer screenings in the U.S. each year, that can lead to a lot of false negatives and positives. QuantX backstops radiologists with AI-enabled software that analyzes MRIs to confirm or challenge their diagnosis. The system was approved by the FDA in 2017 when a clinical study showed a 39% reduction in missed cancers and a 20% improvement in overall accuracy.

Thank you very much, everybody. And congratulations to the class of 2017. That’s some achievement. This is your day and you’ve earned every minute of it. And I’m thrilled to be back at Liberty University. I’ve been here, this is now my third time. And we love setting records, right? We always set records. We have to set records, we have no choice. It’s been a little over a year since I’ve spoken on your beautiful campus and so much has changed.

The beauty queen who was crowned the winner of Miss Anambra 2015 competition but dethroned following the release of a raunchy photo of her, may be worrying about the 14 years jail term attached to gay relationships in Nigeria far more than a tarnished image. The leaked video shows the lady with a striking resemblance to Chidinma, making love to another lady using a cucumber as a sex toy.

(Bloomberg) — Standing high on top of a windswept dune in the West Texas plains, Greg Edwards stares out into a vast ocean of sand. It stretches in every direction, interrupted only by an occasional strip of asphalt or clusters of silos that rise high into the sky. Edwards runs a frack-sand mine. And those silos mark the presence of his rivals, who suddenly seem to be popping up everywhere. As he turns 360 degrees under the blistering midday sun, he calls out their names one by one: “Badger … Atlas … High Roller … Alpine … Black Mountain … Covia.