Link roundup

1. "when Holmes was released from prison last year, officials in [Richmond, California] offered something unusual to try to keep him alive: money. They began paying Holmes as much as $1,000 a month not to commit another gun crime."

2. "A Talon bomb disposal robot brings out the ball for the first pitch at a spring training baseball game."

3. "The artist whose painting got her dumped by Charles Schwab"

The answer is almost certainly related to the art exhibit that Meyohas showed at 303 Gallery in New York in January. The show involved trading stocks and making paintings of the resulting share prices

4. "These are just a few of the deadly creatures you’ll encounter on Skull Island: Reign of Kong [at Universal Orlando]":

Arachno-claw

Carnictis

Terapusmordax

Vastatosaurus rex