NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 Earthquakes: A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shook northwestern Oklahoma on Saturday and was also felt in neighboring Kansas and Missouri, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was one of four quakes recorded in the area. Garfield County Emergency Management Director Mike Honigsberg said there were no reports of injury or serious property damage. The largest temblor struck at 7:16 a.m. a few miles outside the small town of Covington. Reports on the USGS website show it was felt in Kansas City, Mo., some 300 miles away. Many of the thousands of earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent years have been linked to the underground injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas production.
_2 WWII remains: The remains of a gunner whose plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean during World War II have been identified and returned to his sister in Ohio after 73 years. A funeral for Ora Sharninghouse Jr. was held Saturday in Findlay, where his sister, Joan Stough, 84, lives. She was 11 when her brother went missing in action in 1944. The remains of Sharninghouse and a radioman were recovered from their bomber in 2014 near the Republic of Palau. DNA testing helped identify them.
_3 Fatal crash: Two soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash at a Fort Campbell training area, authorities said Saturday. Fort Campbell officials said the AH-64E Apache helicopter crashed Friday night. The sprawling Army post straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee line. The soldiers’ names were not immediately released pending notification of their families. Fort Campbell said they were members of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). The cause of the crash is under investigation.
_4 Facebook data: Facebook announced Saturday that it has suspended a Canadian political consulting firm amid media reports it had ties to Cambridge Analytica, a British firm accused of obtaining data from up to 87 million Facebook users to sway elections. The Menlo Park company said AggregateIQ may have improperly received data from Facebook users. AggregateIQ will lose all Facebook access. Cambridge Analytica was employed by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. It says it received data from 30 million users but never used it in the 2016 campaign. AggregateIQ says it didn’t have access to Facebook data from Cambridge Analytica.
_5 Gun control: A South Carolina congressman pulled out his own loaded handgun during a meeting with constituents to make a point that guns are dangerous only in the hands of criminals. Republican Rep. Ralph Norman placed the .38-caliber gun on a table during a meeting Friday at a Rock Hill restaurant, news outlets reported. “I’m not going to be a Gabby Giffords,” Norman said, referring to the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot during a constituent gathering in 2011. Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, said in a statement that Norman is “no Gabby Giffords” and noted that his wife has dedicated her life to ending gun violence.