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EL PASO — Walmart plans
to reopen the El Paso store
where22 people were killed in
a massshooting, the retail gi-
ant said Thursday, but the en-
tire interiorof the buildingwill
first be rebuilt.
The renovated store will in-
cludean on-site memorialhon-
oringthe victims of the shoot-
ing, many of whomwere Lati-
no, and recognizingthe
‘‘binational relationship be-
tween El Paso and Ciudad
Juarez’’ just across the border
in Mexico, Walmart spokesman
RandyHargrove said. The proj-
ect is expected to take three to
four months.
Nearly all of the 400 em-
ployees at the El Paso store
have beenreassigned to nearby
locations, Hargrovesaid, and
the Arkansas-basedcompany
believes reopeningthe store is
‘‘an important step in healing
fromthis tragedy.’’
‘‘Nothingwill erase the pain
of Aug. 3, and we’re hopeful
that reopening the store will be
another testament to the

strength and resiliency that has

characterized the El Paso com-

munity in the wake of this trag-

edy,’’ Hargrove said.

Flowers,crosses, and hand-

written messages now adorna

makeshift memorialoutside

one of the store’s entrances.

Hundreds of residentshave vis-

ited in the wake of the shoot-

ing, wheresocial workers hand

out bottled water and offer

counselingservices.

Many shoppersfromCiu-

dad Juarez wenttherebecause

it is the closest Walmart to the

four border bridges that con-

nect to El Paso. Eight of the

peoplekilled in the shooting

wereMexican citizens.The vast

majority of themhad Hispanic

names.

Authorities took morethan

10 days to finish processing ev-

idence before returningcontrol

of the property to Walmart.

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Walmartto reopen

store where mass

shootingoccurred

NEWYORK — Harvey

Weinstein is scheduled to be

arraigned Monday on a new

indictment, court officials

said, as prosecutorsseek to

bolster theircase with testimo-

ny from an actress who has ac-

cused him of a 1993 rape.

The movie mogul is due in

court for the arraignmentthe

sameday an appeals court

judge is expected to rule on his

lawyers’request to move his

trial out of New York City.

Prosecutors have said that

the new indictmentis meant

to fix a problem with the exist-

ing indictmentand won’t re-

sult in additional charges. Nor

should it delay Weinstein’s tri-

al, whichis scheduled to start

Sept. 9, they said.

Weinstein’s lawyerscalled

the prosecutor’s decision to

schedulea new arraignment

‘‘desperate measures’’ that ‘‘in-

dicate moreof a focus on ob-

taining a conviction at all costs

than on seeking justice.’’

The Manhattan District At-

torney’s office soughtout the

new indictmentafter a judge

ruled that the actress, Anabel-

la Sciorra, couldn’t testify at

Weinstein’s trial because she

hadn’t appeared before the

grand jury that handed up the

existing indictment.

Sciorra isn’t one of the

womenwhoseallegationsled

to criminalcharges against

Weinstein, but prosecutors

said in letters to the judge and

Weinstein’s lawyerslast week

that her testimony was vital to

supporting charges alleging

he’s a sexual predator who

committed sex crimesagainst

multiple women.

Weinstein’s lawyershad ar-

guedthat prosecutors no lon-

ger had a legal foundation for

thosecharges.

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Weinsteinto bearraignedagain

ALLEGAN, Mich. — A
priest wrappeda teen boy in
plastic and tape and left him
in a janitor’s roomfor more
than an hour at a Michigan
church, prosecutors alleged
Thursday as they filed a charge
of false imprisonment.
The alleged incident oc-
curred in 2013.But the attor-
ney general’s office, citing re-
cords from the Kalamazoo Di-
ocese, said the Rev. Brian
Stanley ‘‘had been engaging in
this type of conduct with the
binding materials for decades.’’
Stanley, 57, was in custody
and not immediately available
for comment. He’s due in court
Thursday in Allegan.
The attorney general’s of-
fice said the incident occurred
at St. Margaret Church in

Otsego where Stanley had

beenasked by the boy’s family

to counsel him. Investigators

said the teen was wrappedin

plastic and his mouth and eyes

werecovered with tape.

In a written statement, At-

torney General DanaNessel’s

office said it was a ‘‘sexually

motivated crime.’’

She said she’s ‘‘taking on

large-scaleinstitutions that

turn a blind eye to victims and

making certain we hold them

accountable.’’ But the diocese

said it reported the incident to

Otsego police in 2013. No

charges were filed at the time.

The diocese said it reported

‘‘additional allegations’’ to

Coldwater police in 2017but

no charges were filed.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mich. priestaccusedof bindingteen

FARGO, N.D. — A judge

oversteppedby giving a life

prison sentenceto a man

whose girlfriend cut a baby

fromthe womb of an unsus-

pecting neighbor, the North

Dakota Supreme Court ruled

Thursday, ordering that the

man be resentenced.

William Hoehn, of Fargo,

pleaded guilty to conspiracy to

commitkidnapping in the Au-

gust 2017attack on Savanna

Greywind, who died of her in-

juries but whose babysur-

vived. He entered the plea be-

fore a jury acquitted him of

conspiracy to commitmurder.

Hoehn’s girlfriend, Brooke

Crews, admitted that she

sliced Greywind’s baby from

her womb. She pleaded guilty

and was sentenced to life in

prison without the possibility

of parole. Hoehn had faceda

maximumof 21 years behind

bars for the kidnapping

charge, but Judge Tom Olson

granted prosecutors’ request

to label Hoehn a dangerousof-

fender, enhancinghis maxi-

mumsentence to life with the

possibility of parole.

The state Supreme Court,

though,ruled that Hoehn

shouldn’t have received that

designation and ordered that

he be resentenced.

The justices said that for

Hoehn to qualify as a danger-

ous offender, his 2012convic-

tion for abuse or neglect of a

child would have to be similar

to the conspiracy to commit

kidnapping charge.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Life termoverturnedin gruesomemurder

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Po-

lice arrested two womenafter

they allegedly stole a baby

stroller from a store, only to

return to the scene of the

crimeafter one of them real-

ized they left behind a child,

police said.

A group of threewomen

and children entered a baby

store in Middletownon Aug.

16. Authorities said one of the
    women wentto the front of
    the store to grab the stroller,
    whilethe other two distracted
    an employee.
    One of the women then re-

turned after realizingone of

the children was left behind.

Two of the threewomen

have been arrested and face

shoplifting and conspiracy

charges. Both are fromEng-

land and in their early 20s.

The store’s owner, Enelio

Ortega, said the womenstole

an English stroller that proba-

bly would have been cheaper

overseas.

The stroller, Ortega said,

has been returned.

The third womanremains

at large.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Womentake stroller, leave childbehind

Daily Briefing

ByLaura Krantz
GLOBESTAFF
WASHINGTON — Boston
Celtics legend Bob Cousy re-
ceived the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the country’s highest
civilianaward, at the White
House Thursday afternoon and
declaredthe honor “allowedme
to complete my life circle.”
“I can stop chasingthe
bouncingball,” he said during
the Oval Office ceremony.
PresidentTrumprecognized
Cousy for his skillsas a Hall of
Fame point guard and integral
member of six Celtics champi-
onship teams but also for his
support off the court of his
black teammates through the
fraughtperiodof racial integra-
tion of the National Basketball
Association in the 1950s and
’60s. Cousy is known for his
friendshipwithteammate
Chuck Cooper, the first black
player drafted by the Celtics.
“He is a great championand
we love champions,” Trump
said in presenting Cousy with
the medal.
In a speech laced withself-
deprecating humor, Cousy said
the medal elevated him to a lev-
el of acceptance in society that
he never dreamedof.
Cousy also thanked Trump,
calling him the “most extraordi-
nary president in my lifetime.”
“Mr. President,” Cousy told
him,“I knowyou’re on your
way to makingAmerica great
again.In my world it’s been
great for 91 years.”
Cousy credited his Jesuit
mentors at College of Holy
Crosswith instillingin him a
moral code. They taughtstu-
dents to maximize their God-
given skills then use thoseskills
to help others, he said.

“To the best of my ability I

triedto do that,” he said.“And I

like to thinkthat the good Lord

has rewarded my feeble at-

tempts.”

Cousy was joined by his two

daughters and two grandchil-

dren. He becameemotional

whenhe mentionedMissie Rit-

terbusch, his wifewhomhe

joked “putup withme for 63

years.” She passed away in

2013.

Cousy toured the White

House in a wheelchairbut

stood to receivethe medaland

deliver his speech.

In his remarks, Trump told a

well-known story about how

Cousy left Raleigh, N.C., on a

midnight train after Cooper, his

roommate, was refuseda hotel

room because he was black.

“Throughout his long career

Bob was a voiceagainst preju-

dice, racism, and bigotry,” he

said.

Trump’s critics have charged

him with stoking racial tension

as president, including sharply

criticizing former NFL quarter-

backColin Kaepernickand oth-

er players who have knelt dur-

ing the nationalanthemto pro-

test treatmentof black

Americans.

West VirginiaSenator Joe

Manchinadvocated for Cousy

to get the award after they met

througha mutualfriend, the

Democratic senator said Thurs-

day before the ceremony.

“I rememberBobCousy

growingup. My goodness,he’s

my idol,” said Manchin,who at-

tended the ceremony.

Manchin said he mentioned

the idea to Trumpwhen he was

having lunch with the president

in the WhiteHouse in Decem-

ber, after noticing he had given

the award to several other ath-

letes. Immediately, he said, the

presidentcalledCousy and told

himhewouldbereceiving it.

Representative Jim McGovern

of Worcester had pushedfor

Cousy to receivethe award dur-

ing the Obamaadministration.

The Medal of Freedom

comesafter Cousy’s exploitsin

college and the prosled to the

nickname“Houdiniof the

Hardwood” and his enshrine-

ment in the Naismith Memorial

Basketball Hall of Fame in

Springfield.He was the MVPin

the NBA in 1957and a 13-time

All-Star. He had his No. 14 uni-

form retired by the Celtics in

1963.

Cousy got his start as an All-

Americanplayer at Holy Cross

in Worcester, the city where he

still lives.

Cousy is the third Boston

sports icon to receive the Medal

of Freedom,joiningCeltics cen-

ter Bill Russell, who received it

fromPresident Obamain 2011,

and Red Sox legend Ted Wil-

liams,whowas honored by

President George H.W. Bush in

1991.Cousy is only the fourth

NBA player to receiveit, joining

Russell, MichaelJordan, and

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The Presidential Medal of

Freedom was established in

1963 by President Kennedy.

About three dozen sports fig-

ures have wonthe award, in-

cluding MuhammadAli, Billie

Jean King, Tiger Woods, Jackie

Robinson, and Babe Ruth.

Cousy is also knownfor his

work to help found the Nation-

al Basketball Players Associa-

tion, the league’s first union,

whichadvocated for higher

wages and benefits.

Althoughknownfor his sup-

port of black teammates, later in

life Cousy has said he regretted

thathedidnotdomore,espe-

ciallyin support of Russell, who

facedovert racism in Boston.

At the age of 90, Cousy read

the Ta-Nehisi Coates book “Be-

tween the World andMe,”

which is a letter fromthe au-

thor to his son about howto

survive and cope with beingAf-

rican-American in the United

States.

Cousy told the Globe last

yearthat after reading the

book, he penned a letter to Rus-

sell, expressing regret that he

did not do moreat the timeto

be supportive of his teammate

amid the racial backlash Rus-

sell experiencedafter joining

the Celtics in 1956.

Laura Krantz can be reached at

[email protected].

Follow her on Twitter

@laurakrantz.

Celtics legend Cousy receives Medal of Freedom

Trumppraises

his skillson, off

basketball court

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AfterreceivingthemedalfromPresidentTrump,BobCousysaidthehonor“allowedmeto complete mylife circle.”

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Mournersvisitedthemakeshift memoriallocatedneartheWalmart storein El Paso,

Texas,where 22 peoplewereslainin a massshootingonAug. 3.