Two To Read

Ben this morning on 1A: Michael Allen Phillips lived in trouble.

He strutted through the suburbs shirtless, a tattoo of a skull on his arm and a pistol on his belly. The man whose first arrest came at age 12 smoked his tires on Tradewinds Drive, fired gunshots into the sky and talked about his disdain for cops.

"You knew," said Lynn D'Ovidio, 62, who lives down the street, "that the kid was destined for a bad end."

TLake this morning on 1A: We have entered the height of hurricane season, the two-month span in which we are told that a terrible storm is most likely to boil up from the Atlantic and destroy us all.