DISPERSING PROTESTERS IN INDIA
SEARCH FOR 4 MISSING MEN CONTINUES ON PA. FARM
Investigators digging up a Pennsylvania farm in search of four missing men found “important” evidence but no human remains, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub declined to describe the evidence at a news conference a day after he identified a “person of interest in the case.”
Authorities continued to search Wednesday with trenchdigging equipment and cadaversniffing dogs for Mark Sturgis, 22; Tom Meo, 21; Dean Finocchiaro, 19; and Jimi Tar Patrick, 19.
Weintraub named Cosmo DiNardo, 20, of Bensalem, Pa., as a person of interest, but he has not been arrested or charged in connection with the case.
CHRISTIE ALLY, BRIDGEGATE ARCHITECT, GETS PROBATION
The man who came up with the idea to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in 2013 was sentenced to three years’ probation Wednesday.
David Wildstein, a former executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the bridge, was sentenced for his admitted role in devising the political revenge plot that engulfed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration.
Wildstein, 55, was mostly unknown to the public before three lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee were inexplicably reduced to one during the first week of school in 2013, causing gridlock leading to the world’s busiest bridge.
When the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee declined to endorse Christie for re-election, Wildstein drew up plans to clog access to the bridge to punish the mayor.
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