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Avoiding Spotlight, OJ Simpson Freed from Prison

Former football legend O.J. Simpson signs documents at the Lovelock Correctional Center, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, in Lovelock, Nev. Simpson was released from
the Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada early Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017.
(Brooke Keast/Nevada DOC via AP)
By KEN RITTER ball and Hollywood star’s Through efforts by prison of- publicly as the day wore prisons spokeswoman
JUSTIN PRITCHARD dead-of-night departure to ficials to keep the time and on — apparently taking the Brooke Keast told The As-
Associated Press avoid public scrutiny. place secret, there were advice of people in his in- sociated Press. She said she
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials It worked. Simpson signed no journalists outside the ner circle that he avoid the didn’t know the name of
at a remote Nevada prison release paperwork just be- prison gates to capture the spotlight. the driver who met him and
where O.J. Simpson was set fore midnight and disap- moment. Simpson was released at took him to an undisclosed
free early Sunday after nine peared into the darkness Though publicity-prone in 12:08 a.m. PDT from Love- location.
years for armed robbery minutes into the first day the past, Simpson was nei- lock Correctional Center
arranged the former foot- he was eligible for release. ther heard from nor seen in northern Nevada, state Continued on Page 7

Trump Calls Out ‘Politically Motivated Ingrates’ after Maria

Associated Press situation.” Trump’s latest tweets San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said Sunday that “there’s only
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — President sought to defend Washington’s Cruz on Friday accused the Trump one goal, and it’s saving lives,”
Donald Trump on Sunday scoffed attentiveness to recovery efforts administration of “killing us with adding that all she did “was ask for
at “politically motivated ingrates” on a U.S. territory in dire straits al- the inefficiency” after the storm. help.” “I know the good heart of
who had questioned his adminis- most two weeks after Hurricane She begged the president, who the American people and I know
tration’s commitment to rebuild- Maria struck. The president spent is set to visit Puerto Rico on Tues- that when a mayday sound goes
ing Puerto Rico after a pulverizing Saturday ensconced in his New day, to “make sure somebody is off, they come to the rescue,” she
hurricane and said the federal Jersey golf club and on Sunday in charge that is up to the task of said in a television interview.
government had done “a great attended an international golf saving lives,” and appealed for
job with the almost impossible competition near New York City. help “to save us from dying.” Continued on Page 3