QUICK HITS

1 Late night on hold: In one of the more significant moves in latenight TV this week, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers”will now go dark next week and remain so through at least the end of the month, NBC said Thursday.

Opioid settlement: Three 2 giant drug distributors are negotiating a deal with the states to end thousands of opioid lawsuits nationwide, in which they would pay $19.2 billion over 18 years and immediately submit to stringent monitoring requirements to assure that suspicious orders for prescription opioids would be halted.

3 Police officer shot: A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed early Friday trying to arrest a murder suspect in the Frankford section of the city, and two people were injured in the shooting, police said. Cpl. James O’Connor, a member of the department’s SWAT team, was shot near his left shoulder as he and members of the SWAT and homicide team tried to enter a second-floor room of a building just before 6 a.m., said Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw.

125 years in jail: Three Turkish 4 men were sentenced this week to 125 years in jail for their part in the drowning of a boy whose death in 2015 became a worldwide symbol of the suffering caused by the Syrian war and the European refugee crisis it triggered.

5 Record producer dies: Keith Olsen, a record producer whose slew of hits included the first Fleetwood Mac album with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, whom he helped bring into the band, died Monday at his home in Genoa, Nevada. He was 74. His daughter Kelly Castady said the cause was cardiac arrest.