NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Boats collide: A search resumed Sunday for four people missing after boats collided head-on the day before in a stretch of the Colorado River marking the California border with Arizona. The crash Saturday sank one boat and injured at least 10 people in Moabi Regional Park, a popular water recreation area. Eric Sherwin, spokesman for the San Bernardino County Fire District, said rescuers had to call off the search until Sunday morning because it was too dangerous to put divers in the flowing water after dark. “We had victims of this collision that were located 3 to 5 miles downstream from the original point of impact,” Sherwin said.
2 Manhunt: Police say a woman fatally shot along with a male renter in her Phoenix home was pregnant, and the woman’s estranged husband is being sought on three murder charges. Authorities in the U.S. and Mexico are seeking Dimas Coronado, 47, and two boys, police Sgt. Armando Carbajal said Sunday. Amber Alerts are posted in both countries to find the brothers the couple had together. Carbajal said Oralia Nunez, 24, was seven months pregnant. Renter Omar Gonzalez was also found dead at Nunez’s home early Saturday. Coronado was believed to be driving a pickup truck with a camper shell and a Chihuahua, Mexico, license plate of ZUD-71-64.
3 Tycoon arrested: Chinese billionaire Liu Qiangdong, also known as Richard Liu, the founder of the Beijing ecommerce site JD.com, was arrested in Minneapolis on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct, jail records show. Liu, 45, was arrested late Friday and released Saturday pending possible criminal charges, jail records show. Police spokesman John Elder said Sunday he could not provide any details because the investigation is considered active. He declined to say what Liu was accused of doing. JD.com said in a statement that Liu was falsely accused while on a business trip, but that police investigators found no misconduct.
4 Priest abuse: The archbishop of Philadelphia has asked Pope Francis to cancel a bishops conference focusing on youth in the wake of the child sex abuse crisis roiling the Catholic Church. A spokesman for the archdiocese confirmed that Archbishop Charles Chaput made the request by letter, but he declined further comment, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
5 Tibbetts killing: The father of slain college student Mollie Tibbetts, in a weekend opinion piece, spoke out against using his daughter’s death in support of “views she believed were profoundly racist,” a call that comes after President Trump and others seized on the suspected killer’s immigration status to argue for changes in U.S. immigration laws. Authorities say Tibbetts was abducted in Brooklyn, Iowa, on July 18. The man charged in her death, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, is also suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. Rob Tibbetts wrote in the Des Moines Register that the suspected killer “is no more a reflection of the Hispanic community as white supremacists are of all white people.”