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It was Jan. 17, 2025, when 82-year-old landlord Curtis Lind was walking outside his property on the 300 block of Lemon Street when an assailant wearing a mask and a black beanie stabbed him in the neck. Lind died on the sidewalk where he had lived and worked for years. Investigators later charged Maximillian Snyder with the murder, alleging Lind was targeted because he was a key witness in a previously violent attack on Lind, tied to the same group.

I have told the clergy of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness, Hirschfeld said. And I've asked them to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written, because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements, but for us with our bodies, to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.

An Amazon fulfillment center in Texas became a murder scene after a dispute between co-workers spiraled into a shooting that left one man dead and two others implicated in his murder. The incident unfolded just after 10 p.m. on January 10 at a San Antonio Amazon facility located at U.S. Highway 90 and Loop 1604, local news station WOAI reports.

Wright said he trusts his fitness and training as he heads to the Games, where the pressure will be on him to perform. I think having success in the past just gives me confidence because I've already done more than I thought I could do in this sport, so the way I see it anything extra is just cream, he told The Associated Press.

I'd say that a lot of times people think that they are safe drivers, and so they think that the weather conditions don't affect them, Sparks said. But I would just say that you can't control what other drivers are doing, first of all, and when you have limited visibility coupled with limited stopping distance because of snowy or icy roads, there's nothing you can do sometimes to prevent a crash.

Firefighters early Monday fought a three-alarm fire that broke out at a building in the downtown area, fire officials said. Few details were available immediately. Firefighters were first called about 7 a.m. in the 1700 block of Broadway, near 19th Street, according to fire dispatchers. Initial reports confirmed by dispatchers indicated the fire was at a multi-story building, perhaps at least five stories. About 40-50 firefighters were at the scene.

Retired right-hander Ryan Pressly has been hired by the Twins, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post. According to Declan Goff of SKOR North, Pressly will be working in player development with both major and minor leaguers. Pressly, 37, just announced his retirement as a player a couple of days ago. It seems he doesn't plan to sit by the fire smoking a pipe and reading the paper. He has quickly launched the next stage of his life with this gig with the Twins.

Investigators received a tip from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children that child pornography files were found on a Snapchat account associated with York's email address and phone number. The IP address that was being used to access the account was later traced to York's home in Lunenburg, according to a statement of facts. Lunenburg police obtained a search warrant and allegedly found child sexual abuse material on York's account.

Miami defensive back Xavier Lucas must sit out the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game against Indiana on Monday night because he was called for targeting in the fourth quarter of the semifinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. Any player called for targeting is ejected from the game. If the targeting call happens in the second half, a player is ejected and suspended for the first half of his team's next game.

Museveni won with 71.65% of the vote, totaling 7,944,772 votes, while Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, of the opposition National Unity Platform received 24.7%, or 2,741,238 votes. Simon Byabakama, head of Uganda's Electoral Commission, made the announcement. "Having obtained the highest number of votes in the election, and with votes cast in his favor exceeding 50 percent of the valid votes, the commission hereby declares the elected President: Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni."

A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader, who officials say had a direct tie to the Islamic State member responsible for last month's ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country. U.S. Central Command announced that the strike in northwest Syria on Friday killed Bilal Hasan al-Jasim,

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Indiana defensive lineman Hosea Wheeler pulled out his phone and displayed a meme of Gilbert Huph, the aptly named, ever-scowling insurance boss of fictional superhero Bob Parr from "The Incredibles." But rather than a dark suit and tie, Huph is wearing an Indiana polo shirt and a headset. His arms hang at his sides, and one eyebrow is slightly raised as he glares ahead.

Berkeley police arrested a man in Texas who is suspected of seven kidnappings and sexual assaults in Berkeley and Oakland between 1994 and 2008. The breakthrough in the case was through a state grant that funded the processing of over 500 cold sexual assault cases. [Bay Area News Group] BART is reportedly in the process of cleaning metallic dust off the insulator caps along its electrified third rail.

Federal prosecutors have unveiled a betting ring involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association game fixing, charging 26 people, including current and former college basketball players. The case involves gamblers placing bets and bribing players with large cash payouts for underperforming during a game, even texting players pictures of stacks of money if they complied. U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said the investigation is ongoing and shows a "significant corruption of the integrity of sports," according to coverage in APNew.com.

Ramon Ruiz Duran Jr., 44, was captured in Nashville on Jan. 12 and booked into a San Bernardino jail on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the 2023 disappearance and death of Emilio Ghanem, according to a news release issued from the Redlands Police Department. Duran Jr. will appear in a San Bernardino courtroom on Wednesday, records show.

I was grabbing a hold of any and all connections that felt good or safe, she said. Leone thought she found that after a relative recommended she talk with a self-described medicine man named Nathan Chasing Horse. As a child, Chasing Horse had acted in the 1990 Oscar-winning movie Dances with Wolves. As an adult, he traveled North America performing healing ceremonies.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield's attorneys told a court Friday he should be released while he awaits the outcome of child sex abuse charges against him because an independent investigation undermined the state's allegations, the parents of his accusers have a history of fraud and dishonesty, and he passed a polygraph test. Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after he turned himself in to face charges stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in New Mexico.

"Every day that the entire crew is present on the ship, a trouble call has been made for ship's force personnel to repair or unclog a portion of the VCHT system, since June 2023," reads an undated document provided by the Navy, through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The carrier has called for help outside the ship 42 times since 2023.

An Abington man was arrested Friday morning after police say he attempted to set fire to the Abington Police Chief's cruiser outside department headquarters. Authorities said that around 9 a.m., a lieutenant spotted the suspect, identified as 39-year-old Franklin Cederholm, pouring gasoline on the chief's marked cruiser parked right outside the station at 215 Central St. Surveillance video released by the Abington Police Department shows a man approaching the SUV and pouring liquid onto the driver's side of the vehicle.

As lightweight champion Ilia Topuria takes a short hiatus, Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett will fight for the interim lightweight title in the main event at UFC 324 on Jan. 24 in Las Vegas. Volkanovski picks Pimblett to beat Gaethje. The UFC featherweight champion has seen Pimblett pass enough tests to prove his mettle. Volkanovski also saw Pimblett's ability to stick to a game plan in his latest stoppage win over Michael Chandler.

The agreements, nicknamed "most favored nation" deals, were aimed at getting lower prices for American consumers and pushing other wealthy countries to pay higher prices for new drugs. But drug companies, including the 16 that made deals, raised the prices of 872 brand-name drugs in the first two weeks of 2026, according to a new analysis by 46brooklyn, a drug price research firm.

He had just earned a master's degree in political science from the University of British Columbia and had recently sent off a raft of applications to law school. But he was between jobs. And he did live with his parents. "I figured, why not have some fun with it?" he said. "Better to be a 'stay-at-home son' than 'unemployed' or 'schmuck' or 'lazy guy.'"

A helicopter flies low across the water at night before heavily armed figures rappel to the ground, take their positions and break down a door. It's not a trailer for a movie, a video game or a recap of a Pentagon operation. Instead, it's a video from the Department of Homeland Security showcasing Border Patrol agents at work. Despite the combative visuals, it is captioned with the Bible verse, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."

At least two of those giveaways led to goals in the other direction, such as the Red Wings' second goal. With a bit of pressure on him, John Klingberg tossed an errant pass off the boards, a soft pass that looked like he was trying to connect with Michael Misa in the neutral zone. A Red Wings' player gobbles up the puck instead. Klingberg tries to close along the wall to prevent the player from making a break the other way, but gets blown through. Meantime, Misa scrambles back and while it wasn't a strong back check I can't be super mad at a kid playing in game 10 of his NHL career. Dmitry Orlov is stuck back playing the 2-on-1 the other way and can't block the passing lane. The pass gets through and it's an easy tap in for Detroit.

Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in Kirk's Sept. 10 shooting on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, just a few miles north of the Provo courthouse. Prosecutors with the Utah County Attorney's Office plan to seek the death penalty if Robinson is convicted. Robinson has not yet entered a plea. An 18-year-old child of a deputy county attorney attended the campus event where Kirk was shot.

"He said that the guitar case was a gift from someone else," Connor-Findley said of the incident. "He had no idea that it was in there, which is something that we hear."

Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last week, was struck four times in the gunfire, the fire department said. When first responders reached her, 36-year-old Good was unresponsive in the driver seat of her maroon Honda pilot, and her pulse was inconsistent and irregular, according to report obtained by the Star Tribune.

According to a Minneapolis fire department incident report obtained by the Guardian, along with police records and 911 transcripts, paramedics arrived at the scene at about 9.42am on 7 January and found Good unresponsive in the driver's seat of her car, with blood on her face and torso. The report states that paramedics removed Good from the car and reported that she was unresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, thready pulse activity.