Gary Thompson was fifteen when he found the fossils near Cedaredge in Delta County. It was 1975, and he’d just gotten interested in paleontology after a school field trip to scenic Escalante Canyon, a red-rock canyon where he and his classmates learned about the dinosaur bones and petrified dung specimens regularly found in […]
Bones
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s afterlife for me. That’s probably not what the people who willed their remains to UCLA’s Medical Center imagined would be their final repose, but for some, it actually was. Maybe even still is — the jury is out on that. But one thing is […]
The officers wore riot gear and carried shields and canisters of pepper spray, according to inmates and prosecutors. They moved from cell to cell in formations of five down the long hallway of a special housing unit at New Jersey’s only women’s prison. They were there for a series of […]