NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 “Deportation Bus”: Ina GOP gubernatorial primary marked by over-the-top advertising, one candidate’s “Deportation Bus” has drawn a worried response from a Georgia mayor. News outlets report Michael Williams will bring the bus to what his campaign calls Georgia’s “dangerous sanctuary cities” beginning Wednesday. The former state co-chair for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign says in an ad that his 30-year-old bus will send undocumented immigrants “home.” In Clarkston, a self-described sanctuary city, Mayor Ted Terry has alerted local police over concerns that immigration vigilantes might try to round up residents to put on the bus. _2 School shooting: Officials say a police officer working at a northern Illinois high school shot and wounded a former student who fired a gun at him. The shooting happened in the Dixon High School gymnasium Wednesday. City manager Danny Langloss says students were gathered there for graduation practice when the officer exchanged gunfire with the gunman. Authorities haven’t provided the gunman’s name. Lee County Sheriff John Simonton said he is a 19-year-old former student, and is in custody with non-lifethreatening injuries. He says neither the officer nor anyone else was injured. _3 Alligator threat: Connecticut police say a man who placed a 3-foot alligator on top of a man in an extortion attempt has been arrested. The Connecticut Post reports that 30-year-old Isaias Garcia, of Garland, Texas, was held on $250,000 bail after pleading not guilty Tuesday to charges including kidnapping and threatening. Authorities say a 21-year-old man called his aunt April 6 to say he had been kidnapped and his abductor was demanding $800. The aunt contacted police who told her to demand proof her nephew was OK. Police say she received a photograph of her nephew face down in a bathtub, the open-mouthed alligator on top of him. Police traced the suspect’s phone to a Shelton hotel where he was arrested. _4 CIA nominee: Republicans are pushing for a speedy confirmation vote as early as Thursday after the Senate intelligence committee endorsed President Trump’s CIA nominee Gina Haspel to lead the spy agency. But opponents concerned about Haspel’s role in CIA covert detention sites after 9/11 could delay a vote by the full Senate until next week. The committee voted 10-5 in Haspel’s favor on Wednesday, paving the way for her expected confirmation to become the first woman to lead the CIA.
_5 Texas execution: A condemned Texas inmate who insisted he wasn’t involved in a San Antonio “lovers’ lane” killing more than 14 years ago was executed Wednesday for the slaying. Juan Edward Castillo, 36, received lethal injection for the fatal shooting and robbery of a 19-year-old man that testimony showed was carried out by Castillo and several friends on a secluded road where the victim was enticed by the promise of drugs and sex. Castillo became the 11th convicted killer executed this year in the U.S. and the sixth in Texas.