In 2015, Ulbricht, who went by the dark-Web sobriquet Dread Pirate Roberts—a reference to a shifting character in “The Princess Bride”—received two life sentences without the possibility ...

Michael Gessl’s house survived the Palisades fire that destroyed much of his neighborhood, but something else is making him nervous. Rain. There is, at last, precipitation in the forecast for ...

Bill Bender graduated from Ohio University in 2002 and started at The Sporting News as a fantasy football writer in 2007. He has covered the College Football Playoff, NBA Finals and World Series ...

Ulbricht, who dubbed himself “Dread Pirate Roberts”, had also been accused of commissioning five murders, was sentenced to two life sentences for narcotics distribution and criminal enterprise.

That is life’s inevitable pain. But in my situation, there was no actual turbulence, just anticipation that created my suffering. Yet how often do so many of us suffer due to dread of things that ...

President Donald Trump said he granted a pardon Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online marketplace Silk Road — a campaign promise Trump had made to libertarian voters. In a post on his ...