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IN BRIEF TROPICAL STORM FLORENCE

Ex-Blackwater guard to stand

trial for 3rd time in Iraq shooting

A former Blackwater Worldwide se-

FEMA response could repair
curity guard will stand trial for a third
time on charges that he instigated a
mass shooting in Iraq more than a dec-
ade ago. Federal prosecutors in Wash-
Maria’s harm to reputation
ington said Friday that they will retry Charles Ledyard King USA TODAY “We all
Nick Slatten, 34, of Sparta, Tennessee, Carver of need to
on a charge of first-degree murder in Wilming- WASHINGTON – Florence is more than just the lat- stop the
the shooting that killed 14 unarmed ton, N.C., est disaster confronting FEMA. It’s a chance at re- blame
Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others, looks at demption for an agency widely criticized for its re- game &
including women and children. damage sponse to Hurricane Maria when it struck Puerto Rico focus on
Slatten’s second trial ended in a from a nearly a year ago. recovery.”
hung jury Sept. 5. Jury selection for tree that Florence, the menacing storm that made landfall Sen. Marco
the third trial was set to begin Oct. 29. fell on his Friday in North Carolina, has been described by FEMA Rubio,
home Associate Administrator Jeff Byard as “a Mike Tyson R-Fla., in a
Chicago officer picks jury trial in Friday. punch to the Carolina coast.” tweet
black teenager’s shooting death KEN Record storm surges have been forecast. Massive
RUINARD/ damage to homes and infrastructure is expected. Dev-
Attorneys for a white Chicago police GREENVILLE
officer charged in the 2014 fatal shoot- NEWS See FEMA, Page 2T
ing of black teenager Laquan McDon-
ald announced Friday that they will
stick with a jury for the trial rather

4 dead as slowing
than have a judge decide the case.
Judge Vincent Gaughan had set a
Friday deadline for Jason Van Dyke to
say whether he wanted to switch to a
bench trial in which the judge would
have decided the officer’s fate. Open-
ing statements are planned Monday.

Growing wildfire in Utah forces

evacuation of hundreds of homes

A fast-moving Utah wildfire fanned

system inundates NC
by high winds has more than doubled
in size as it burns through dry terrain
and forces evacuations of hundreds of
homes, the U.S. Forest Service said
Friday. The blaze south of Provo grew
to 84 square miles from 31 square miles
Thursday night as authorities ordered
evacuations in three communities.

NASA center in Alabama gets 1st

woman as permanent director

NASA has named an engineer as

permanent director of its space flight
center in Alabama, and she’s the first
woman to hold the job. Joan Singer
had became acting director of the Mar-
shall Space Flight Center in July.
The center in Huntsville is best
known as NASA’s propulsion center,
where rockets are designed and tested
for travel in space.

Monster typhoon slams into

northeastern Philippines

Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into

the Philippines’ northeastern coast
early Saturday.
More than 5 million people are at
risk from the storm, with powerful
winds and gusts equivalent to a Cate-
gory 5 Atlantic hurricane.
Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians,
including boy, in Gaza Strip
Three Palestinians, one of them a
12-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli
gunfire Friday as thousands of protes-
ters gathered along Gaza’s perimeter
fence with Israel, health officials said.
The Gaza Health Ministry said at
least 80 Palestinians were wounded
by gunfire, six in serious condition.
From staff and wire reports
Volunteers from the Civilian Crisis Response Team rescue three children from their home in James City, N.C. GETTY IMAGES
Heavy rains, winds ‘wreaking havoc’ on coast
Doug Stanglin, Daniel J. Gross storm were seeking shelter in attics or
and Sean Rossman the upper floors of homes after the hur-
USA TODAY “It’s an uninvited ricane marched ashore earlier in North
Carolina.
SWAN QUARTER, N.C. – Having brute who doesn’t In the first report of storm-related fa-
punished the Carolinas with winds,
heavy rains and record flooding, Hurri-
want to leave.” talities, a mother and infant died after a
tree fell on a house in Wilmington,
cane Florence was downgraded Friday North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper North Carolina, according to local po-
After Hurricane Florence came ashore in his state
afternoon to a tropical storm, still lice. The father was hospitalized with
packing a punch with 70 mph winds.
Those who didn’t flee the deadly See FLORENCE, Page 2T

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Manafort in deal with Mueller: ‘I plead guilty’

Vermont has Kevin Johnson and Brad Heath Amy Jackson: “I plead guilty.” cluding his apartment in the president’s
the lowest USA TODAY The 69-year-old former lobbyist and prized Trump Tower.
infant death political operative acknowl- As recently as last month,
rate at

3
WASHINGTON – Paul Manafort,
former chairman of President Donald
Trump’s campaign, pleaded guilty Fri-
per 1,000 day to two felony conspiracy charges
births. and reached an agreement to provide
“complete cooperation” with special
Highest: counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Rus-
Alabama sian interference in the 2016 election.
with 9 per
1,000 births
Manafort’s plea deal brings investi-
gators further into the president’s in-
ner circle and adds another conviction
SOURCE WalletHub analysis of Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention data to the growing scorecard.
MIKE B. SMITH, JANET LOEHRKE/USA TODAY Manafort told U.S. District Judge
edged leading a long-running Trump praised his former cam-
conspiracy involving his work on paign manager, who he said was
behalf of a pro-Russia faction in a “brave man” who “refused to
Ukraine led by the country’s for- break.” On Friday that refusal
mer President Viktor Yanuko- came to an abrupt end.
vych. He also pleaded guilty to Asked whether Manafort’s
obstructing the special counsel’s Paul deal included an agreement to
investigation he has now prom- Manafort provide information related to
ised to assist. Trump, defense attorney Richard
The charges could send him to prison Westling said his client has pledged
for more than a decade and will force “complete cooperation.”
him to surrender millions of dollars in Contributing: William Cummings,
bank accounts and prime real estate, in- David Jackson