JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press

A Marine veteran who put an agitated subway rider in a chokehold on a New York subway has been acquitted in the man’s death.

Officials say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area. Residents reported they felt rumbling across the Northeast on Friday morning. The quake was centered in New Jersey about 45 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia.

An executive of Donald Trump’s company says it no longer prepares the sweeping financial statements that New York state contends were full of deceptive numbers for years.