NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 Abortion restrictions: A judge in Iowa agreed Friday to temporarily block the most restrictive abortion law in the country from taking effect next month under an agreement between lawyers for the state and abortion rights groups. Attorneys for the state said during a hearing that they agreed to prevent the law — which bans most abortions if a fetal heartbeat can be detected — from taking effect on July 1. Advocacy groups argue the law is unconstitutional and have filed a lawsuit to block it. State lawyers will seek to quickly have the case argued to determine the issue of constitutionality. _2 Son evicted:
A 30-year-old man who was evicted from his parents’ home in Camillus, N.Y., finally left Friday, hours before a courtordered deadline. Michael Rotondo honked and waved to reporters as he pulled out of the driveway of his parents’ home. Mark and Christina Rotondo brought the court case against their son after several eviction letters offering money and other help were ignored. _3 Dean sentenced: A former high school dean and anti-violence advocate in Boston was sentenced Friday to up to 26 years in prison for shooting and nearly killing a student he had recruited to sell marijuana for him. Shaun Harrison, 58, was sentenced a day after a Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted him of armed assault with intent to murder and other charges. Harrison recruited 17-year-old Luis Rodriguez to sell marijuana for him and shot him on March 3, 2015, because he believed the student was not generating enough sales and withholding money, prosecutors said. Harrison joined the school as a dean a few months before the shooting and was fired afterward. Rodriguez sat in the back of the courtroom and cried quietly along with his family as his aunt took the stand to describe the pain of almost losing him. _4 Tainted lettuce: Four more deaths have been linked to a national food poisoning outbreak blamed on tainted lettuce, bringing the total to five. Health officials have tied the E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in Yuma, Ariz. The growing season there ended six weeks ago, and it’s unlikely any tainted lettuce is still in stores or people’s homes. But reports of illnesses have continued to come in. In an update Friday, health officials said 25 more cases have been added, raising the total number of illnesses to 197 in 35 states. Previously one death had been reported, in California. On Friday, health officials said they had learned of four more — in California, Arkansas, Minnesota and New York. _5 Suspect captured: After two days on the run from a huge manhunt, a suspect in the slaying of a deputy was arrested Friday by a single state trooper with no use of force, authorities said. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tweeted photos of a handcuffed Steven Joshua Wiggins grimacing as he was placed into the back seat of a law enforcement vehicle. Wiggins was being booked into jail wearing the handcuffs of Dickson County sheriff ’s Sgt. Daniel Baker, who was found dead in his car Wednesday.