NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 Deputy killed: Authorities in Washington state have arrested a man suspected in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in the community of Frederickson, 15 miles southeast of Tacoma. Pierce County deputy Daniel McCartney, a 34-year-old Navy veteran and married father of three boys, was shot during a foot chase late Sunday as he responded to a home invasion, said sheriff ’s spokesman Ed Troyer. One suspect in his mid-30s was found dead at the scene, and another got away, authorities said. On Monday, Troyer said 32-year-old Frank William Pawul had been taken into custody in the Shelton area on unrelated felony warrants. Two weapons also were found at the scene, Troyer said.
_2 Trump Tower fire: A fire in a heating and air conditioning system at President Trump’s namesake skyscraper injured three people and caused smoke to billow from the roof, the Fire Department of New York said Monday. The fire started around 7 a.m. at the Manhattan building that contains Trump’s home and business offices. Two civilians and a firefighter were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. It took about an hour to extinguish the fire. The president was at the White House when fire engines clogged the streets around his Fifth Avenue luxury building during the morning rush hour.
_3 Hotel deaths: A man, a woman and their two young sons were shot to death Monday in an apparent murder-suicide at an upscale hotel in Galveston, Texas. Police Capt. Josh Schirard says the shootings happened at the San Luis Resort. Another guest reported hearing popping sounds from a nearby room and called the police. The four people shot had been staying together. They were not immediately identified.
_4 Voting commission: Maine’s top election official vowed Monday to continue his fight for documents from the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on which he served. Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, a Democrat, said his legal team will go back to court to ask a judge to order the release of the documents. A judge ruled that Dunlap was entitled to the documents, but the commission rejected his request after Trump disbanded the panel last week. Dunlap said Monday that he’s “not letting it go.” Critics including Dunlap disagree with Trump’s contention of widespread voter fraud.
_5 Court nominee: Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s nominee for state chief justice would be the first openly gay leader of a state Supreme Court. The Democratic governor announced Monday that longtime friend and current Associate Supreme Court Justice Andrew McDonald was his nominee for the court’s highest post. Chief Justice Chase Rogers is retiring next month after more than 10 years on the job. While McDonald would be the first openly gay state chief justice, Puerto Rico Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodriguez became the first openly gay high court leader in U.S. history in February 2016.
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