NEWS OF THE DAY

From Across the Nation

1 Earthquakes: Three earthquakes early Saturday shook Alaska’s largest city, but there were no immediate reports of significant damage. The strongest of the three temblors, at magnitude 5.0, was recorded just before 3: 30 a. m. The Alaska Earthquake Center said that was followed by a magnitude 3.9 quake minutes later. The third earthquake was magnitude 4.4 and was recorded just after 6 a. m. All three were centered about 20 miles north of Anchorage at depths of about 25 miles. The center said all three quakes were felt in the greater Anchorage area and in Wasilla, about 45 miles north of Anchorage.

2 Lewis tribute: Officials in Nashville have renamed most of a street after civil rights icon

John Lewis, who help desegregate the city’s lunch counters before becoming a longserving congressman in Georgia. Metro Council members voted to rename a large portion of Fifth Avenue North to Rep. John Lewis Way. As a college student at American Baptist College and then Fisk University, Lewis helped desegregate public spaces in Nashville and pushed for racial justice across the South. “Nashville prepared me,” Lewis said in 2013. “If it hadn’t been for Nashville, I would not be the person I am now.” Lewis died July 17. He was 80.

3 Helicopter crash: A helicopter delivering a donated human heart to a hospital in East Los Angeles crashed on the roof Friday, but the three people aboard escaped without serious injuries, authorities said. The private air ambulance crashed on the helipad at Keck Hospital of the University of Southern California in Boyle Heights. But there was no fire and no significant fuel leak, the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted. News reports showed the helicopter on its side on the rooftop pad, with its rotor blades gone. The hospital later said the heart was being transplanted.

4 Three killed: Chicago rapper King Von was among three people fatally shot outside a nightclub in Atlanta that also left three others wounded. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Dayvon Bennett, whose stage name is King Von, and a group of men were approached by another group in a parking lot early Friday, and gunfire erupted during an argument. The GBI said onand offduty Atlanta police officers responded and also fired shots. The Police Department said in a statement that its officers did not kill the rapper, who was 26. Police said charges are expected as the investigation continues. Last month, King Von released the album “Welcome to OBlock,” a nod to an area on Chicago’s South Side where he was raised.

5 Bannon case: A lawyer for President Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, quit defending him in a federal fraud case a day after Bannon made inflammatory comments about Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray. In a letter Friday, attorney William Burck told a federal judge in New York City that he was withdrawing from the case. He did not give a reason and declined to discuss the decision. The lawyer quit after Bannon suggested on an online broadcast that Fauci and Wray should be beheaded for being disloyal to the president.