NEWS OF THE DAY
_1 Palin son arrest:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s oldest son, Track, was arrested on suspicion of assault less than a year after being accused of attacking his father at the family’s home. State Troopers say Track Palin, 29, resisted arrest as they took him into custody at his Wasilla home on allegations he assaulted a female acquaintance late Friday. Palin, whose mother was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, was arrested in an assault on his father, Todd, last December. Track Palin, an Army veteran who served one year in Iraq, was accepted into a program intended to rehabilitate veterans and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal trespassing in a plea agreement.
_2 Flood advisories:
The National Weather Service has issued flash flood watches through Wednesday for areas including southern Nevada, southeastern California, southwestern and central Utah and the western twothirds of Arizona. Up to 4 inches of rain could fall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rosa. After hitting the Mexican coast late Monday, the storm is forecast to move quickly northwestward as it weakens.
_3 Appeal denied:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson’s appeal of his murder conviction in the drowning death of his third wife. Peterson, 64, a former Bolingbrook officer, is serving a 38-year sentence for Kathleen Savio’s 2004 death and another 40-year sentence after being convicted of plotting to kill the prosecutor in the case. The Illinois Supreme Court declined to overturn Peterson’s murder conviction last year. Peterson is also a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, but hasn’t been charged.
_4 Kidnapping arrest:
A pizza delivery driver in Wisconsin who saw a woman with a black eye mouthing “help me” during a delivery is credited with alerting police to a kidnapping. The sheriff ’s office says a man was paying for the pizza Thursday at a home in Waldo, when a woman in the background mouthed for the driver to call the police. The driver dialed 911, leading to the arrest of a 55-year-old man at the home. Authorities said the man had entered the woman’s home earlier in the day, punched her, tied her up with a power cord and tried to convince her to get back into a relationship with him.
_5 Traffic tie-up:
Officials in Georgia had to call in cowboys Monday after dozens of cows escaped when a tractortrailer transporting them overturned on a busy junction north of Atlanta. The truck carrying 89 cows overturned on the cloverleaf of Interstate 75 and I-285. Many of the cows scattered, causing wrecks and clogging rushhour traffic. “We’re wrangling some cows, that’s what we’re doing,” said Sandy Springs Police Sgt. Sam Worsham. The effort to round up the herd included real cowboys, state officials said. Hours after the wreck, two of the cows remained missing. “We don’t know where they are,” Worsham said. “We’re waiting for people to call and tell us there’s a cow in the backyard.”