The Short List: Hawaii's lava horror; Apple Pay ignites mobile war; Pistorius saga isn't over
Lava flows toward Hawaii homes in slow-motion horror story
Imagine you're kicking back at home and someone tells you that 2,000-degree Fahrenheit lava is flowing toward your house. That's Hawaii's reality. Molten lava from the Kilauea volcano is headed toward the town of Pahoa, in a rural region of the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes. The flow is moving at about 20 yards an hour. Between 50 and 60 homes or businesses are in the lava's path, officials said. Residents are preparing to evacuate.
Apple Pay ignites mobile wallet war
And the first battle has begun. Apple Pay, which launched this month, lets you leave your wallet at home and use your iPhone to pay for things. It seemed to work pretty well and people were pumped. But now two retail giants, CVS and Rite Aid, have disabled access to the new mobile-payments system. They're among several companies that are joining forces on the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a network of retailers banding together to launch their own mobile payments service, CurrentC, which could become a potential rival to Apple Pay.
Washington school shooter invited his victims to lunch table by text
He lured them there. Police said Jaylen Fryberg, the gunman responsible for the Washington state high school shooting on Friday, had texted his friends ahead of the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School inviting them to lunch. He later walked up to the table in the high school's cafeteria and shot his friends before turning the gun on himself. Gia Soriano, 14, became the second victim of the shooting last night. Police are still trying to determine a motive.
The Oscar Pistorius saga isn't over
The fat lady hasn't sung yet. Prosecutors in South Africa said today that they'll appeal the verdict and sentence handed down to Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. Last week, Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison in the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He was convicted of culpable homicide — what we know as manslaughter — but acquitted of murder. Meanwhile, Steenkamp's mom unleashed a brutal tirade against Pistorius where she claims he never slept with her daughter.
Paste BN investigation: Post-crash fires in small planes cost hundreds of lives
Small-airplane fires have killed at least 600 people since 1993, burning them alive or suffocating them after crashes and hard landings that the passengers and pilots had initially survived, a Paste BN investigation shows. The victims who died from fatal burns or smoke inhalation often had few if any broken bones or other injuries, according to hundreds of autopsy reports obtained by Paste BN. Read the full investigation here.
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This is a compilation of stories from across Paste BN.
Contributing: Brett Molina, Marco della Cava, John Bacon, Thomas Frank, Michael Winter, Paste BN; Jolie Lee, Paste BN Network; Elizabeth Wiley, KING-TV, Seattle-Tacoma