JUDGE: WHITE HOUSE CAN’T TIE FUNDS TO IMMIGRATION

AU.S. judge in California struck down an immigration law Friday that the Trump administration has used to go after cities and states that limit cooperation with immigration officials.

The ruling by Judge William Orrick also directed the U.S. Department of Justice to give California $28 million that was withheld over the state’s immigration policies.

It was at least the third decision by a U.S. district court judge in recent months declaring the immigration law unconstitutional.

Interior secretary announces $3M Boston Navy yard project.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has announced plans to redevelop the old Navy yard in Boston that’s home to the USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Zinke and Navy Secretary Richard Spencer visited the Charlestown Navy Yard on Friday to tout the approval of $3 million in federal money for the effort.

Judge tosses fishermen’s suit against Obama ocean monument.

PORTLAND,

A federal judge tossed a lawsuit Friday from a group of fishing associations that challenged the creation of an underwater monument in the Atlantic Ocean.

The fishing groups sued in federal court in Washington against creation of Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument by former President Barack Obama in 2016.

Will Vinton, animator behind the California Raisins, dies.

ORE.» Will Vinton, an Oscarwinning animator who invented Claymation, a style of stopmotion animation, and brought the California Raisins to TV, has died in Oregon. He was 70.

Citing a family statement, The Oregonian reported that Vinton died Thursday following a lengthy battle with multiple myeloma.

He won an Oscar in 1975 for the animated short film “Closed Mondays,” then founded Vinton Studios in Portland the next year and went on to win three Emmys as a producer.

Man accused of stopping train in Nebraska sentenced.

LINCOLN,

NEB.» A Missouri man who pulled an emergency brake and prompted panic aboard an Amtrak train in southern Nebraska was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison.

Taylor Michael Wilson, 26, of St. Charles, Mo., was sentenced in a Lincoln federal court, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.

Wilson pleaded guilty in July to a single terrorism count and a weapons count after investigators found a cache of guns hidden in his Missouri home. In exchange, other counts were dropped. — Denver Post wire services