NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 Trump’s wealth: President Trump’s net worth slipped to $2.8 billion, a decline of $100 million over the past year, as revenue at his namesake Fifth Avenue tower and golf courses fell. The drop, the second in two years, is based on figures compiled by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index from lenders, property records, annual reports, market data and a May 16 financial disclosure. It occurred as Trump began his second year in the White House and his name was stripped from buildings in Toronto, Manhattan and Panama. The most recent estimate, down from $2.9 billion last June, is the lowest since Bloomberg began tracking Trump’s wealth in 2015.
_2 Deputy killed: Authorities appealed for the public’s help Thursday in finding a man suspected in the fatal shooting of a Tennessee sheriff ’s deputy. The suspect, Stephen Joshua Wiggins, 31, has a lengthy arrest record and was charged just the day before with hitting a woman and stealing her car. That woman was in the car with the suspect when he pulled the trigger and she is now jailed on a murder charge in the death of sheriff ’s Sgt. Daniel Baker, according to court documents. The deputy’s body was found in his patrol car in a wooded area several miles from where he had stopped a suspicious car on Wednesday. Rewards totaling $15,000 have been offered for information leading to the Wiggins’ arrest.
_3 Lethal storm: Heavy rains generated by subtropical Storm Alberto unleashed flooding in Virginia that washed out bridges, damaged homes, closed schools and transformed a normally peaceful creek into a raging river that swept away cars with people still in them. At least one person was killed and rescuers were searching for others. The storm, already blamed for at least four deaths in the U.S. earlier in the week, was pushing across the Great Lakes on Thursday. But the National Weather Service said the potential for more rainfall and flash flooding would continue for the Southeast, the Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic through the end of the week. _4 Lethal injection: The state of Alabama must reveal details of its lethal injection procedure, a federal judge has ruled, granting the request of news organizations to unseal court records in the wake of an aborted execution. U.S. Judge Karon Bowdre ruled this week that the public has a “common law right of access to the sealed records relating to Alabama’s lethal injection protocol.” The judge said some information can remain secret in the interest of security, such as names of lowlevel prison employees involved in executions. But she ordered the state to tell her by June 7 if there is identifying information in any records the court plans to make public.
_5 Sex abuse settlement: An attorney Thursday says the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has reached a settlement in its bankruptcy case with more than 400 sexual abuse victims. Victims’ attorney Jeff Anderson did not put a dollar figure on the settlement. In 2013, the Minnesota Legislature opened a three-year window in the statute of limitations that allowed alleged victims of prior abuse to sue for damages. That resulted in hundreds of claims being filed against the archdiocese and led it to file for bankruptcy in 2015.
_6 L.A. homelessness: After three years of precipitous increases, homelessness dipped slightly this year, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported Thursday, providing a hopeful sign that new money flowing into housing and services is having an effect. The new estimate of 53,195 people living without homes across the county was about 3 percent lower than the year before. For the city of Los Angeles, the estimate of 31,516 was down about 5 percent. Officials credited the modest decreases to more housing placements.