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• Alex Murdaugh will spend life in prison Source: CNN

Cate Casad started noticing the for-sale signs pop up over the last year on farms around Central Oregon, which has been mired in water shortages amid a yearslong megadrought. Source: CNN

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Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced attorney whose dynastic family had significant legal reach for decades in parts of South Carolina’s Lowcountry, faces sentencing Friday after he was found guilty of murdering his wife and grown son. Source: CNN

Before giving his sentence, Judge Clifton Newman spoke of the opioid addiction that Alex Murdaugh admitted on the stand. Source: CNN

In a remarkable courtroom moment, the judge in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial spoke in stark and personal terms ahead of the disgraced lawyer’s sentencing Friday for the murders of his wife and son. Judge Clifton Newman said he’d met many times in court and socially with Murdaugh, whose family was prominent for decades in the region’s legal community. Source: CNN

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For 87 years, the Murdaugh family name came to represent a legal dynasty in coastal South Carolina, where three successive generations controlled the local prosecutor’s office. Source: CNN

The jury in the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh has found him guilty of murdering his wife and son. The 54-year-old scion of a prominent and powerful family of local lawyers and solicitors, was also found guilty of two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in the killings of Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh …

The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have released record high levels of planet-heating pollution into the atmosphere, according to a new study. Source: CNN