Brittany Shammas

After years of mystery surrounding the disappearance of college student Kristin Smart, Dan Dow, the San Luis Obispo County district attorney, announced new details about what may have happened after she was last seen.

“Let me say this. Many, many times you don’t really know a person," a sheriff said. "And this is probably one of those examples.”

Inside the abandoned white Subaru was a note: “Two flat tires, headed to Mormon Point, have three days’ worth of water.”

Paul Flores, a classmate of Kristin Smart and the main suspect in her disappearance, was arrested and charged with murder Tuesday, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said.

Photos and videos from the Capitol Rotunda event underscored the young family’s loss: the stuffed animals Evans’s children clutched, the Capitol figurines laid out before the service on the chairs where they would sit.

More than 20 percent of the U.S. population has been vaccinated and deaths are declining steadily even while new cases are on the rise. So far, 561,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the country.

A relative of the children’s father said their mother had been “very sick” and “not herself” for months.

When they searched his home, investigators said, they found writings about how he was heartbroken and was vowing to do harm.

“Matt was absolutely against it. He thought the picture was his to do with what he wanted,” former Florida state Rep. Tom Goodson said, according to the Orlando Sentinel. “He thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted to, as an expression of his rights.”

More than 4 million people in the United States received a coronavirus vaccine on Saturday — the nation’s highest one-day total.