NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 Bomber sentenced: An Afghanborn U.S. citizen already serving life in prison for a bombing in New York City was sentenced Friday to an additional life term for a shootout with police in Linden, N.J., as he attempted to avoid arrest in 2016. Judge John Deitch sentenced Ahmad Khan Rahimi for actions he said were “completely abhorrent to civilized society.” The sentence will run consecutive to the life term Rahimi is serving for the New York bombing. The shooting occurred two days after a bomb exploded in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 30 people. Rahimi declined to make a statement to the court.
_2 Border Patrol: The Trump administration has named Rodney Scott to be the new head of the U.S. Border Patrol. Scott will take over for Carla Provost, who is retiring, according to an announcement obtained Friday from Mark Morgan, acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Scott has been a member of the Border Patrol for 27 years. He takes over the law enforcement agency at a critical time. Curbing immigration is one of President Trump’s top priorities. The agency has come under fire for crowded stations where migrants were held for long periods as border crossings surged. Congress has authorized additional funding to increase capacity.
_3 Opioids crisis: The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company has been ordered to spend 5 ½ years in prison for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioids crisis. John Kapoor, 76, the former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston after a jury found him guilty of racketeering conspiracy last May. The trial revealed lurid details about the company’s marketing tactics, including that a sales executive once gave a lap dance to a doctor the company was wooing.
_4 Homophobic remarks: A judge in Ohio has apologized for a pair of homophobic letterstotheeditor he wrote to his college newspaper in the 1990s. Maumee Municipal Court Judge Dan Hazard issued the apology to news outlets after WTOLTV in Toledo reported on the letters, which are available in the online archive of the Lantern at Ohio State University. One letter Hazard wrote in 1992 suggested gay people who had contracted AIDS deserved the lifethreatening condition. A second letter, written the next year, questioned the safety of living as a gay person. “I beg of the homosexual community one thing: Please keep your AIDS to yourselves,” he wrote. _5 Rapper arrested: Rapper YG was arrested Friday at his Los Angeles home on suspicion of robbery just two days before he is scheduled to perform at the Grammy Awards, officials said. Sheriff ’s deputies took YG, whose real name is Keenon Jackson, into custody at his Chatsworth home as they served a search warrant. The rapper — whose hits include “Toot It and Boot It” and “Go Loko” — is being held on $250,000 bail ahead of his arraignment Tuesday. Authorities did not describe the alleged robbery.