News of the Day From Across the Nation, Aug. 2

An engineering firm that was hired by insurance companies to evaluate damage caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 was charged Monday with illegally altering reports prepared by inspectors.

2 Terror plot: A man accused of plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol in support of the Islamic State group during President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address pleaded guilty Monday in Cincinnati to three federal charges.

FBI agents arrested Cornell at a gun shop in suburban Cincinnati, saying he had just bought two semi-automatic rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition.

Someone speeding away from a shooting scene in Carbondale, Ill., late Sunday opened fire on pursuing officers, seriously wounding one before escaping, authorities said.

Emergency room doctors are reporting users have experienced advanced stages of delirium and some had to be revived, including one that wound up in intensive care.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca withdrew a guilty plea Monday and chose to go to trial on a charge of lying to federal authorities in an effort to thwart an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran.

The decision was made at a hearing after negotiations between defense attorneys and prosecutors failed to produce a new plea agreement.