NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Cohen released: President Trump’s former personal lawyer was released Friday after a judge ruled that he had been sent back to prison from home confinement in New York City as retaliation for his plan to release a book critical of Trump before November’s election. Michael Cohen walked out of a federal prison a day after U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was ordered back to prison on July 9. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, among other crimes.
2 Revenge shooting: A man angry over a botched drug deal fired several shots into a Derry, Pa., residence where he mistakenly thought someone involved in the deal lived, authorities said, killing a woman who was asleep in her bed. Nathan Joseph Quidetto, 20, was being held on charges of criminal homicide and reckless endangerment. Quidetto wanted to scare someone who was involved in the drug deal but drove to “the completely wrong residence, not even close to being at the right house,” a state police spokesman said. He then fired several shots at the home before driving away. Tracy Marie Squib, 52, was killed.
3 Deputy drowns: A deputy sheriff from Mississippi has died after saving his 10yearold son from a rip current off a beach in Florida. William Nichols, 33, was director of the Search and Rescue Unit for the DeSoto County Sheriff ’s Department in northern Mississippi. His family was vacationing in Fort Walton Beach when his son was caught in the dangerous current Wednesday. Nichols swam out and saved his son, who was in distress, but then was pulled into the current himself, the DeSoto County Sheriff ’s Department said. A rescue crew pulled him to shore, but he died at a local hospital.
4 Severe storm: Tropical Storm Hanna strengthened as it moved Friday toward the Texas coast, threatening to bring heavy rain, rough waters and strong, damaging winds. Hanna was forecast to make landfall Saturday. A hurricane warning was in effect for Baffin Bay to Mesquite Bay, a span that includes Corpus Christi. Forecasters increased the expected rainfall totals, stating that Hanna could bring as many as 10 inches of rain and coastal swells that could cause lifethreatening surf. Hanna broke the record as the earliest eighth Atlantic named storm, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. The previous record was Harvey on Aug. 3, 2005, Klotzbach tweeted.
5 Bulger case: The longtime girlfriend of late Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has completed her federal prison sentence and moved in with her twin sister. Federal agents removed Catherine Greig’s electronic monitoring bracelet Thursday. Greig, 69, spent the last year of her sentence living under home confinement with Bulger’s relatives in the affluent Boston suburb of Hingham. Greig joined Bulger on the run in 1995 shortly after he fled Boston to evade a federal racketeering indictment. They were captured in 2011 in Santa Monica.