A two-page amendment posted to a county website at the start of 2025 says that coroner's inquest hearings - which for decades have been done for virtually all law enforcement-involved death - will now only occur if certain officials request them. The amendment attributes this change to "advancements in transparency," implying that the digital age now makes such hearings obsolete.
Authorities in Indiana are considering whether to charge a homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman after she mistakenly went to the wrong address where she thought she was turning up to clean a property. Police officers found Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez, 32, dead just before 7am Wednesday on the front porch of a home in Whitestown, an Indianapolis suburb of about 10,000 people.
Two men from Michigan have been accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in Detroit, targeting LGBTQ+ bars. Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, both 20 and from Dearborn, have been accused of conspiring with at least five unnamed individuals and a minor, identified as "Person 1", to carry out an ISIS-inspired shooting attack on Halloween night, according to an FBI affidavit.
Similarly, despite a slew of announced layoffs, the actual number of people filing for unemployment benefits - as revealed by states' releases of their weekly claims numbers - remains low for now. JPMorgan economists peg last week's initial claims at 229,000, up a bit from 220,000 the previous week but well within the low range that has prevailed all year.
SAN JOSE Two tech companies, IBM and Infineon, have disclosed new rounds of employment cutbacks that will erase the jobs of more than 100 tech workers in the Bay Area. The staffing reductions extend what has turned out to be a difficult two weeks for Bay Area tech workers, who are collectively facing the loss of several hundred jobs in the region as a result of recent layoff disclosures by their employers.
Stocks are off to a lower start on Wall Street and on track for their first weekly loss in the last four. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% in the early going Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 174 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.8%. Markets are reacting to the latest quarterly reports from U.S. companies. Payments company Block, which operates the Square and Cash App businesses, sank after turning in results that fell short of forecasts. Exercise equipment maker Peloton jumped after its results beat estimates. Treasury yields moved higher in the bond market.
An MBTA commuter rail train crashed into an empty car that was stopped on a railway crossing in Acton Thursday night, transit officials said. The driver exited the vehicle just before the collision, which pushed the car about 300 feet and left it a mangled mess. No one was injured in the incident, according to Acton police. The crash happened around 5:30 p.m. at a crossing near 117 Central St. near the Fitchburg line.
The government shutdown has come for your travel plans, and the impacts began to mount Friday with the implementation of a 10% reduction in flight traffic that was ordered this week by the FAA, in order to address low staffing levels among air traffic controllers. At SFO Friday, a ground stop was ordered between 4 am and 8:45 am that delayed a number of incoming flights, which in turn caused delays for departing flights that were waiting on those inbound aircraft.
Brightspeed, the nation's third-largest fiber broadband builder and provider of the country's fastest internet service, as determined by HighSpeedInternet.com's Annual Service Provider Review 2025, has hit a major milestone - the completion of its fiber network in 13 Kansas communities. Now, nearly 29,000 families and businesses in Baldwin, Benedict, Ellinwood, Garnett, Garness, Hillsboro, Holton, Horton, Huntington, Junction City, Osage City, Osawatomie and Sterling have access to ultra-fast, ultra-reliable internet powering everything from remote work and online learning to telehealth and local business growth.
According to police and court records, Raul Quintana, 31, of Newark, was driving a sedan at more than 100 mph with a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit. He was charged with felony driving under the influence causing injury to another person and having a blood alcohol content of more than .08 percent . Quintana, who was hospitalized after the crash, was formally charged Oct. 30 and arrested Wednesday.
Veterans Day is celebrated on the same date every year Nov. 11, in honor of the World War I armistice that took effect at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918. This year, the date falls on a Tuesday, and that's when the official federal and California closures will take place. (In years when Nov. 11 is a Saturday, the closures are on Friday; when it's a Sunday, the closures are on Monday.)
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