Navy ends search for three sailors
TOKYO— The U.S. Navy has called off its search for three sailors missing since Wednesday, when a transport plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean on its way to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier.
Eight people were rescued and are in good condition, but the remaining three sailors had not been found after two days of searching, the Navy’s 7th Fleet, which is based in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, said in a statement Friday.
The Reagan had been leading the search effort, joined by eight U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships, three helicopter squadrons and maritime patrol aircraft.
Malia Obama defended
Ivanka Trump and Chelsea own came under attack.
This week, conservative media outlets and tabloids have been circulating and reporting on videos that they claim show Malia Obama — former President Barack Obama’s oldest daughter who is a student at Harvard — kissing a young man before a football game and blowing smoke rings. Typically, the media refrains from reporting on the personal lives of the children of presidents and former presidents.
President Donald Trump’s daughter and the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton both tweeted criticism of the coverage.
Chicago fined $62,500
CHICAGO— A federal judge has ordered the city of Chicago to pay $62,500 for withholding records in a wrongful death lawsuit, marking the eighth time Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has been sanctioned for failing to turn over potential evidence in a police misconduct case.
The city agreed to the amount this month after a U.S. District Court judge upheld an earlier ruling that the city acted in “bad faith” when it ignored a court order and made little effort to provide documents to the lawyer for the family of Divonte Young, 20, who was shot and killed by an officer in 2012.
A plainclothes officer fatally shot Mr. Young after authorities alleged he opened fired on two people. Police never located a gun.
Ex-journalist enters plea
SEATTLE— A former Seattle journalist who posed online as a female porn recruiter entered a plea deal with prosecutors this week that would allow him to avoid standing trial on rape charges but will require him to register as a sex offender after his release from prison.
Michael-JonMatthew Hickey,41, better known as MattHickey, was charged lastyear with three counts of second-degreerape involvingthree women who were toointoxicated to consent to sex,court records show.
In all, nine women accused Hickey of having sex or attempting to have sex with them under false pretenses or when they were too intoxicated to consent, charging papers say. His accusers were acquaintances as well as women who had been lured to Hickey’s apartment by his online female alter ego and were told they had to “audition” for porn jobs by having sex with Hickey, the charges say.
The state will recommend a sentence of 2½ years in prison and then three years on community supervision. The Stranger, a Seattle newspaper, described Hickey as a tech journalist who had done freelance work for the newspaper.