NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Yale changes college’s name
After years of debate, Yale University announced Saturday it will change the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus and former U.S. vice president who was an ardent supporter of slavery. Yale trustees said the Ivy League university is renaming Calhoun College after trailblazing computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral. Yale said it was the final decision in a controversy over former Vice President John C. Calhoun’s legacy that had simmered for years and boiled over with campus protests in 2015.
NEW YORK
Woman falls to her death
A 29-year-old New Jersey woman plunged about 30 feet to her death off an escalator inside the famed World Trade Center transit hub known as the Oculus on Saturday morning, police said. Jenny Santos was trying to retrieve a hat dropped by her twin sister while the two were on an escalator at about 5:30 a.m. when she reached too far over the railing and tumbled over the edge, a law enforcement official said.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Man convicted decades later
A Pennsylvania man has been acquitted of third-degree murder but convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the son who lived for more than two decades in a vegetative state following a brain injury. Christopher Barber, 47, who served six years in the 1990s on an aggravated assault conviction in the case, was freed after a time-served term. Prosecutors said he shook his fussy baby boy and threw him onto a couch so hard that he suffered catastrophic brain damage. The son survived 23 years in a vegetative state, hooked to a breathing machine and fed through a tube, until he died in May 2015. The judge imposed a 2½ to five-year term, allowing Barber’s release due to time served.
MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H.
Two die in accidents on lake
New Hampshire’s governor says two people are dead and one is missing after falling through the ice on a lake in the state. Gov. Chris Sununu said Saturday evening there have been multiple accidents throughout New Hampshire involving snowmobiles and sleds. Sununu confirmed the fatalities in two different locations of Lake Winnipesaukee.
Compiled from wire reports