For eight hours on Friday, Interstate 5 at Del Mar Heights Road was closed, at times in both directions, as police talked with a suicidal man perched on a bridge above the freeway. And for miles around that spot, motorists endured a massive, extended transportation nightmare that slowed travel around the region. Social media posts captured some of the pain.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a number of people were sprayed with what is believed to be pepper spray at a Heathrow Airport car park, police said. A group of people who knew each other were involved in an argument which escalated and resulted in people being injured, police said, with other suspects being searched for. Twenty-one people were treated for injuries with five of those taken to hospital. The Metropolitan Police said it was an isolated incident and was not being treated as terrorism or protest-related. Earlier in the day trains were delayed and the car park was closed due to the incident but it reopened by 11:30 GMT. Police and emergency services were called at 08:11 to the multi-storey car park at Terminal 3.
Before the sun was fully up and long before the rest of his family stirred, William, a 5-year-old boy in Jacksonville, Florida, quietly climbed out of bed and decided his parents deserved a little more sleep. He felt hungry, and rather than wake anyone, the preschooler settled on a plan that made perfect sense to him: he would take himself out for breakfast.
(Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Black Friday shoppers were sent scrambling for cover after shots were fired at the Westfield Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara, injuring two, police said. Social media users posted photos of patrons crouched behind shelving in stores like Abercrombie and fleeing from the mall after hearing gunfire. Two people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, according to the San José Police Department, which did not release any other information immediately.
this past weekend, police in Northern California received reports of possible gunshots and arrived on the scene to discover, thankfully, that it was just someone playing games too loudly with their window open. As reported by Action News Now, police in Chico, California, received a call from a local resident who claimed to have heard "threatening words" as well as "pop sounds" that sounded an awful lot like gunshots. ANN says a heavy police presence arrived at the scene around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday to investigate.
The first burglary was called into the police at 9:26 p.m., authorities said. A woman in her thirties reported that two masked people opened the side gate of her house on the 3900 block of Nelson Drive and entered with flashlights. The suspects then smashed the house's glass back door. When officers arrived, they saw two people entering a dark-colored vehicle and leaving the scene. As police tried to stop the vehicle, it fled "at a high rate of speed."
A Section 60 was also in place in parts of Birmingham, allowing officers to stop and search without the need to have reasonable grounds. West Midlands police said three people were arrested for racially aggravated offences and one for a breach of the peace. A man, 21, was also arrested for failing to comply with an order to remove a face mask and a teenage boy, 17, for failing to comply with a dispersal order.
Gardai deployed near the Citywest facility on Thursday in anticipation of another possible standoff with mobs that on Tuesday and Wednesday night threw fireworks and missiles and set a police vehicle on fire. In a statement the police force, An Garda Siochana, urged people to stay away from violent protest: This is not fun and games and entertainment for social media, it said.
Uniformed gardaí were sporadically pelted with fireworks and other objects as they formed a line to block the entrance to the facility, before public order gardaí moved in front of their line with riot shields to block objects being thrown. A large crowd has gathered at the entrance to the complex for a second night after scenes of violence on Tuesday. Bricks, fireworks and other missiles were launched at gardaí last night, seven people have been arrested in connection with the public disorder
The New York City Police Department wrote on X: "We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The Austin Police Department wrote on X: "The rally remained peaceful, with no arrests reported. We're grateful to our community and event organizers for coming together to make sure voices were heard safely and respectfully."
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A man who police say crashed into the steps of Los Angeles City Hall in downtown Friday afternoon was taken into custody after a lengthy barricade situation. The driver was placed in handcuffs without incident around 5:50 p.m. when he stepped out of a sedan and walked down Spring Street toward officers with his hands up.
A vehicle crashed onto the steps of Los Angeles City Hall around 4:08 p.m. on Friday, prompting road closures in the area, according to authorities. Los Angeles Police officers are trying to make contact with the driver, who has not come out of the car in the hour since the crash, according to a department spokesperson.
Large numbers of police descended on an apartment building in the German city of Munich on Wednesday after a fire broke out inside, followed by loud explosions. One person was seriously injured, a police spokeswoman told AFP in the Bavarian state capital of Munich. She did not confirm media reports that shots had been fired and that one person had been found dead.
North Tonawanda, NY - A brawl inside a Webster Street restaurant spilled into the street early Sunday, ending with gunfire and a large police response, according to the North Tonawanda Police Department. Officers arrived at 58 Webster Street around 2:51 a.m. after reports of shots fired and found a man on the ground outside the restaurant. Investigators later determined he had not been struck by bullets but had been injured in a physical altercation.
Three more speed cameras have been damaged in Toronto, city officials say marking the 20th time the devices were tampered with in just a week. The City of Toronto said in an email to CBC News on Friday that three cameras were vandalized early Sunday morning. The cameras were located in the areas of Castlefield Avenue and Avenue Road, Avenue Road and Oaklands Avenue, and at Mount Pleasant Road and South Drive.
Richard Quinones was walking his dogs one morning this summer when he spotted a woman in a ditch. She lay on dirt near some trolley tracks in Lemon Grove, her legs partially submerged in muddy water, Quinones, 69, said in a recent interview. He called a non-emergency line. A sheriff's SUV arrived a little later. But the vehicle then backed up and drove off without anyone stepping outside.
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Protesters gathered on September 9 in the Georgian capital a day after supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party attacked protesters participating in ongoing demonstrations over a government decision to halt European Union membership talks. Georgian Dream supporters pelted the demonstrators with bottles and rocks on September 8 in front of the campaign headquarters of Mayor Kakha Kaladze, who is running for reelection in local elections on October 4.
Four people were killed in a shooting incident in the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel's ambulance service said, while the police said the perpetrators had been killed. It was not immediately clear who carried out the shooting or what was the motive. Israeli police described the shooters as "terrorists" without saying how many had been involved in the incident. The ambulance service said earlier that 15 people were wounded and at least five were in serious condition with gunshot wounds.
The violence we encountered during the operation was co-ordinated and carried out by a group of people, many wearing masks to conceal their identity, intent on creating as much disorder as possible. Many of those individuals have now been arrested and we have begun securing charges. The contrast between this demonstration and the other protests we policed yesterday, including the Palestine Coalition march attended by around 20,000 people, was stark.
The Santa Clara Police Department received a 911 call reporting a "disturbance between two roommates" out of four people living at the 1800 block of Eisenhower Drive just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Santa Clara Police Chief Cory Morgan said in a press conference Friday. On the way to the address, officers were told that the situation had become a stabbing. Officer Robert Allsup arrived and identified himself, then kicked down the door after hearing "a loud commotion inside," according to Morgan.
After 10 months of dissent, protests show no signs of dying down as fury at alleged government corruption grows. Serbia's police have fired tear gas and stun grenades at antigovernment protesters in the city of Novi Sad who are demanding snap elections and an end to President Aleksandar Vucic's 12-year government. Thousands gathered on Friday at the city's state university campus for yet another demonstration after 10 months of persistent dissent prompted by the fatal collapse of the Novi Sad train station roof last November,
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