Former FBI head Comey is writing a book
James B. Comey, the former FBI director who was fired in May by President Donald Trump, is writing a book about his experience in public service, including his tumultuous and brief tenurein the Trump administration.
Mr. Comey has been meeting with editors and publishers in New York in recent days, and he is being represented by Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer, partners at the literary agency Javelin. The book is expected to go to auction this week, and all the major publishing houses have expressed keen interest, Mr. Latimer said.
The book will not be a conventional tell-all memoir, but an exploration of the principles that have guided Mr. Comey through some of the most challenging moments of his legal career. Among those are his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server during a contentious election, and his recent entanglement with the president over the FBI’s inquiry into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Pa. slaying details
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — A marijuana dealer gave police a grisly account of killing four men on his family’s farm, saying he crushed one of them with a backhoe after shooting him and tried to set three of the bodies on fire in a metal bin with the help of his cousin, according to court papers filed Friday.
Cosmo DiNardo, who graduated from a Catholic prep school two years ago, said he killed a former schoolmate when he arrived with $800 to buy $8,000 worth of pot. Mr. DiNardo, who’s charged along with his cousin, said he shot another man in the back as he tried to run away.
Mr. DiNardo, 20, pinned one of the deaths on his cousin, who was charged Friday, although the cousin told police that Mr. DiNardo shot all four of the victims.
The only motive disclosed by investigators was that DiNardo said he wanted to set the victims up when they went to the farm to buy marijuana. One man vanished July 5, and the others vanished two days later.
Airport near-miss
Investigators looking into the frighteningly close call involving an airliner that nearly hit planes on the ground at San Francisco International Airport will try to determine why the pilots made such a rookie mistake and nearly landed on a busy taxiway instead of the runway.
The Air Canada plane with140 people aboard came within 100 feet of crashing on to the first two of four passenger-filled planes readying for takeoff.
Runways are edged with rows of white lights, and another system of lights on the side of the runway helps guide pilots on their descent.By contrast, taxiways have blue lights on the edges and green lights downthe center.
Fisherman killed
The United States is temporarily halting efforts to rescue large whales trapped in fishing gear after the death of a Canadian fisherman this week.
Joe Howlett, founder of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, was killed Monday after freeing a trapped North-Atlantic right whale offthe coast of New Brunswick, a Canadian province next to Maine. Details were slim, but Mackie Greene, captain of the whale rescue group, told the Canadian Press that the whale “made abig flip” after it was freed and somehow struck Mr. Howlett.