JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has scheduled the release of a forensic examination of Nolan Wells’ cellphone just days after a Mississippi grand jury declined to recommend anyone be charged in the teen’s death. Attorneys representing the 18-year-old Black college student’s family have called for transparency, asking that the grand jury investigative
A grand jury will not bring criminal charges against anyone in the death of a Mississippi teenager, who was found dead two days after a boating trip with friends on 4 July. Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney hired by the family, had raised concerns that Nolan Wells, a black man, “ended up dead after
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — A grand jury has found there wasn’t evidence to bring charges in the death of Nolan Wells, a Black teen who was found dead after a July 4 boating trip off the Mississippi Gulf Coast — a conclusion swiftly questioned by Wells’ family. The decision announced late Monday by Angel Myers McIlrath,
Three people have been charged with threatening a judge, a witness and local officials connected to the investigation into the death of Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-year-old found dead after a July Fourth boat trip with friends to an island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. None of the three appear to know Wells, his family or
Critics have said their piece about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and now he is saying his piece about them. While on “The Odyssey” press tour, the director spoke with podcaster Zhong Shu about “a fundamental flaw of film criticism” he sees with amateur critics. “The criticism that’s often leveled at movies in general is, ‘Oh,
In May 2025, Christopher Nolan revealed that his next epic, “The Odyssey,” would be the first feature film shot entirely with 70mm Imax cameras. As “The Odyssey” grosses nearly $650 million worldwide, including $140 million in Imax, and with the company’s coveted 70mm screenings sold out for weeks, an Imax source suggests the success could
