• Pope Francis arrived at an audience in a wheelchair as his knee pain continues to limit his mobility. Francis was wheeled into the meeting Thursday with nuns and religious superiors from around the world who are meeting in Rome. It was the first time he had been seen using a wheelchair in public. The 85-year-old pontiff has been suffering from strained ligaments in his right knee for several months. He revealed that he recently received some injections to try to relieve the pain, but he has continued to struggle to walk and stand.
• Rapper Kidd Creole, a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York street. The 62-year-old rapper, born Nathaniel Glover, was found guilty of manslaughter last month for the death of John Jolly, who was stabbed twice in the chest with a steak knife in midtown Manhattan in August 2017. Prosecutors accused Glover of stabbing Jolly after growing enraged because he thought Jolly was gay and was hitting on him. After stabbing Jolly, who was 55, Glover headed to his workplace nearby, changed his clothes and washed the knife, prosecutors said. Glover was arrested the following day. "Mr. Jolly's death was devastating to his family and those who knew him," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a news release after Wednesday's sentencing. "Every life we lose to violent crime ripples throughout our entire city, and we will continue to ensure everyone in our borough can live their lives with the sense of safety and security they deserve." The New York Times reported that state Supreme Court Justice Michele Rodney of Manhattan appeared to take issue with arguments made by Glover's attorney, Scottie Celestin, who said during the trial that Glover had felt threatened in part because Jolly was homeless. "A life is a life is a life," Rodney said, adding as she sentenced Glover that the killing was not "somehow justified because the person is homeless." Celestin said he would appeal. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five formed in the late 1970s in the Bronx. The group's best-known song is "The Message" from 1982. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, the first rap group to be included.
Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is shown in this file photo. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, File)