St. Clair Shores couple found dead in possible murder-suicide

A married couple were found dead Thursday in St. Clair Shores — the husband drowned in Lake St. Clair, the wife beaten to death in their home — police said in a statement.

Fox 2 Detroit reported that police suspect a murder-suicide.

Police first found the husband's body in the lake and did not at that time suspect foul play, police said. His car was parked nearby.

It was only when they visited the home and found the wife that they began to suspect something untoward had occurred.

The Coast Guard is assisting with the investigation into the husband's body and the State Police Crime Lab is supplementing St. Clair Shores police with the investigation at the home, police said.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2018/09/07/st-clair-shores-couple-dead/1227441002/

DNC Lawyers Raise Prospect That Papadopoulos’s U.K. Contact May Be Dead

On the day Donald Trump’s former foreign-policy adviser George Papadopoulos was sentenced to two weeks in jail for lying to investigators about his contacts with a U.K. professor peddling dirt from Russian officials about Hillary Clinton, lawyers in an unrelated case raised the prospect the professor, Joseph Mifsud, may be dead.

The Democratic National Committee, which is suing Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks for interfering in the 2016 election, said in a court filing Friday that it believes all the defendants in the case have been served with the complaint, “with the exception of Mifsud (who is missing and may be deceased).” The lawyers didn’t elaborate.

A hearing on the DNC lawsuit is scheduled for Sept. 13 in Manhattan federal court.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-09-07/dnc-lawyers-raise-prospect-papadopoulos-u-k-contact-may-be-dead?

Dalton School using location to try and dodge sex assault suit: court documents

The elite Dalton School has a new motto, according to court documents: Out of sight, out of mind.

The exclusive Manhattan prep school — where actor Chevy Chase and journalist Anderson Cooper studied — is trying to duck a lawsuit by a former student who says she was sexually assaulted by the headmaster, arguing that it can’t be sued in a New Jersey court because the school’s located in New York.

“Dalton has no substantial affiliation with New Jersey,” the school’s attorneys claim in court papers.

The victim, identified as J.S., was 14 years old when Dalton’s headmaster Gardner Dunnan allegedly groped her at his Manhattan apartment and his New Jersey summer home in 1986 and 1987.

She brought the suit in the Garden State, where the statute of limitations is more flexible than laws governing sexual abuse in New York.

https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/dalton-school-using-location-to-try-and-dodge-sex-assault-suit-court-documents/amp/?

US oil exports hit new records

U.S. oil exports reached new soaring heights in the first six months of 2018, with half of all exports going to Europe and Asia and India shoring up the rest, according to new data from the federal government.

U.S. crude oil exports saw an 80 percent increase in the first half of 2018 compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data and analysis issued Thursday by the Energy Information Administration.

That's an increase of 787,000 barrels per day, to set a new monthly record in June of 2.2 million barrels on average per day.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/us-oil-exports-hit-new-records?