NEWS OF THE DAY
_1 Family arrested: A family of four arrested Tuesday in the gruesome slayings of eight people from another family near Columbus, Ohio, two years ago carefully planned the killings for months in a crime prosecutors vaguely explained as a custody dispute, authorities said. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said a grand jury indicted the four on aggravated murder charges and that they could be sentenced to death if convicted. DeWine gave scant detail about why they were killed, but did say the custody of young child played a role. One of those arrested was Edward Wagner, 26, who was a longtime former boyfriend of Hanna Rhoden, 19, one of the victims, and shared custody of their daughter at the time of the massacre.
_2 Police shooting: A suburban Chicago alderman, Keith Price, called Tuesday for prosecutors to investigate the fatal shooting of a black security guard by a white police officer outside the bar where the guard worked. Authorities have said little about the scene that ended early Sunday with the death of 26-year-old Jemel Roberson, who was apparently wearing a hat emblazoned with “security” across the front when he was shot outside Manny’s Blue Room in Robbins, a predominantly black community just south of Chicago. At the time, according to witnesses and a lawsuit, Roberson was attempting to detain a suspect in a separate shooting that wounded several other people at the tavern.
_3 Ginsburg back: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg worked in her office at the Supreme Court for the first time since she fell Nov. 7 and fractured three ribs, according to a court employee. Ginsburg, 85, spent a night in the hospital and recuperated at home over the three-day Veterans Day weekend. She was not on the bench Tuesday morning when the court met for routine business, but returned to her office later in the day.
_4 Deadly hoax: A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Tuesday to making a hoax call that ultimately led police to fatally shoot Andrew Finch of Wichita, Kan., following a dispute between two online gamers over $1.50 bet in a Call of Duty WWII video game. Tyler Barriss, 26, admitted to making the false report resulting in a death, as well as cyberstalking and conspiracy related to the deadly swatting calls in Kansas.
_5 First lady weighs in: In an extraordinary move, Melania Trump called publicly Tuesday for the deputy national security adviser to be dismissed. After reports circulated Tuesday that President Trump had decided to remove Mira Ricardel from her post at the National Security Council, Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman, released a statement that said: “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.” The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the first lady’s staff and Ricardel had clashed during Mrs. Trump’s visit to Africa in October over such things as seating on the airplane and requests to use the council’s resources.
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