NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Law officers killed:
An FBI agent and a Maryland fire marshal were killed while standing on the shoulder of a highway at the scene of a traffic crash, Maryland State Police said. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Carlos Wolff, 36, and Deputy Chief State Fire Marshal Sander Cohen, 33, died late Friday when they were struck by a car as they waited for help after Wolff ’s car crashed on Interstate 270 in Rockville. Cohen called state police at about 10 p.m. and reported he had come upon the scene of a single-car crash. He asked for assistance, blocked a lane with his personal vehicle and activated his emergency flashers. As Wolff — the driver of the damaged vehicle — stood with Cohen on the shoulder of the lane, a car swerved and struck both men.
2 Southern snow:
Snowfall shrouding much of the Deep South began tapering off Saturday, but freezing temperatures kept roads slick and thousands without electricity while scores of flights were delayed and canceled at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta. Frigid temperatures behind a cold front combined with moisture off the Gulf of Mexico to bring unusual wintry weather to parts of the South. Reports showed up to 10 inches of snow in northwest Georgia, with 7 inches of accumulation in parts of metro Atlanta. Warming temperatures should melt most of it in time for Southerners to return to work and school Monday.
3 Plane crash:
Three men aboard a small plane that crashed into a lake in central Florida are presumed dead, authorities said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the twin-engine Beechcraft was heading for a landing at Orlando Sanford International Airport when it crashed Friday into Lake Harney, about 35 miles northeast of Orlando. Reporters on the scene saw authorities bringing pieces of wreckage onto shore. The pilot was identified as Kamalesh Naik, 56, of Sanford, and the passengers as two Chinese nationals, Men Tao, 22, and Hou Xupeng, 23. The plane belonged to a commercial flight school at the airport.
4 Pregnant robber:
A Wisconsin woman accused of robbing three banks while she was more than eight months pregnant has pleaded guilty to robbing two of them and was sentenced to four years in prison. Lisa Harding, 32, of Madison was also ordered to pay back money taken during a third bank robbery, even though that charge was dismissed under a plea agreement. The robberies happened last December. Harding was arrested after taking a taxi to and from the final robbery. Harding apologized for her crimes and said a lot of things were “going wrong” for her at the time.
5 Trademark dispute:
A jury has sided with San Diego Comic-Con in a court battle with a rival pop culture convention in Utah over rights to use the phrase “comic con.” The panel decided Friday that Salt Lake Comic Con used the trademarked phrase without permission, though it didn’t do so willfully. The panel awarded the California event $20,000, far less than the $12 million it had sought. Utah co-founder Dan Farr told Salt Lake City TV station KUTV he plans to appeal.