DEM 2016-CLINTON FUNDRAISING
Clinton to hold campaign fundraisers in California in May
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will make her first campaign fundraising trip to California in May, holding events in the Democratic stronghold over three days.
Clinton’s presidential campaign says in an email to donors Thursday that Clinton plans to attend fundraisers in San Francisco on May 6, Los Angeles on May 7 and Silicon Valley on May 8.
The former secretary of state is appearing at her first fundraisers next week in New York and Washington, D.C.
Advisers have set a modest goal of raising $100 million for the primary campaign and will not initially accept donations for the general election. Clinton has focused on raising money online during the start of her campaign.
Clinton is expected to draw support from Hollywood and California’s influential technology sector in the campaign.
PETRAEUS-SENTENCING
Petraeus sentenced to 2 years’ probation for military leak
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, has been sentenced to two years’ probation and a $100,000 fine for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
Thursday’s sentencing came two months after Petraeus agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material.
The plea agreement carried a possible sentence of up to a year in prison. In court papers, prosecutors recommended two years of probation and a $40,000 fine. But the judge was not bound by that.
The agreement was filed in federal court in Charlotte, where Paula Broadwell, the general’s biographer and former lover, lives with her husband and children.
JOHN HINCKLEY
Government wants strict conditions for man who shot Reagan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government lawyers are arguing that if the man who shot President Ronald Reagan is allowed to leave a mental hospital for good, he should have to live under strict conditions. Prosecutors want John Hinckley Jr. to wear an ankle monitoring device and drive a car with a GPS tracking device.
Lawyers were discussing those and other potential conditions Thursday during the second day of a multi-day hearing on whether Hinckley should be allowed to live full-time at his mother’s Virginia home. Hinckley’s attorney Barry Levine says his client is ready and that the mental illness that drove Hinckley to shoot Reagan has been in remission for more than two decades.
But Levine and prosecutors disagree about the conditions he should have to live under if allowed to move to Virginia.
SUSPECT DIES-BALTIMORE-THE LATEST
Latest on Baltimore police-custody death: Police meet family
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has met with members of Freddie Gray’s family.
The day Gray died, Batts said at a City Hall news conference that the family had declined at that point to interact with police. He promised the department would try again during the week to share information with them.
Police tweeted Thursday that the meeting took place with Batts “listening to their pain & expressing his sympathy. He updated them on the investigation.”
SHA HEAD RESIGNS
Head of State Highway Administration resigns
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The head of the State Highway Administration has resigned to spend more time with her family.
Forty-one-year-old Melinda Peters said Thursday she was leaving the job. She tells The Baltimore Sun that it’s time to make her personal life her first priority.
Peters, the first woman administrator of the SHA, was appointed to the post in 2011 by Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat. She tells the Sun that her resignation wasn’t related the continuing transition under Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who took office in January.
Deputy Administrator Doug Simmons will be the top official at the agency until a successor for Peters in named.
TODDLER KILLED
Toddler dies after being injured; mother’s boyfriend charged
LANHAM, Md. (AP) — Prince George’s County Police have charged a man with killing his girlfriend’s young son.
Officers say on April 9, 23-month-old Anthony Winfrey was found unresponsive by his mother in their home in Lanham. The child was taken to a hospital, where he died on April 15.
Authorities say the Office of the State Medical Examiner said the cause of the toddler’s death was blunt force injuries and ruled the death a homicide.
Police say the mother’s boyfriend, 29-year-old Joshua Riley of Lanham, had been watching the child the day the child was injured. A warrant was obtained for Riley charging him with first-degree murder and other offenses.
Officers arrested Riley on Wednesday in Silver Spring. He is being held without bond.
GEORGETOWN-REAL ESTATE CENTER
Georgetown alum gives $10M to create center on real estate
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgetown University alumnus is donating $10 million to the school to launch a new center focused on global real estate.
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business is announcing the gift Thursday from Robert Steers, CEO of the global investment manager Cohen and Steers in New York City, and his wife Lauren Steers.
The gift will create the Steers Center for Global Real Estate to provide practical experience and an increasingly global focus. The center will offer career planning for students, hands-on learning through a real estate clinic and opportunities for consulting projects.
The business school says it has developed a real estate curriculum that allows MBA students and undergraduates to work on real estate projects and to underwrite live real estate transactions.