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1 Fargo police officer killed, 2 injured in shooting that also left suspect dead in North Dakota

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — One police officer was killed and two others were critically injured in a shooting that also left the suspect dead on a busy street in Fargo, North Dakota, police said. A civilian also was seriously wounded in the shooting that happened just before 3 p.m. Friday, police said in a late-night statement that provided no details on how the shooting unfolded or on a possible motive. Many witnesses said they saw a man open fire on officers before other officers shot him.One woman said she was driving when she saw the officers fall.“I saw the traffic stop and as soon as I drove, shots were fired and I saw the cops go down,” Shannon Nichole told KFGO Radio. “My airbag went off and the bullet went through my driver’s door.” The Fargo Police Department said the investigation is ongoing and authorities withheld the identities of the officers and the suspect pending notification of their families. Fargo police plan to provide more details at a press conference at 3:30 p.m. on...

Denver weather: Scattered storms Saturday, heating up Sunday

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — In Denver weather there will be a warm start to the weekend with a few storms around Saturday afternoon and evening. Then, dry weather and sunshine heats things up on Sunday.Weather today: Scattered stormsSaturday will start off with abundant sunshine followed by increasing clouds during the afternoon.It will be a little breezy with northeast winds up to 20 mph. Temperatures will reach the mid-80s across metro Denver, which is about 5 degrees below the average of 90 degrees at this time of year.Temperatures will reach the mid-80s across metro Denver on July 15, which is about 5 degrees below the average of 90 degrees at this time of year.By the afternoon and into the evening another round of scattered thunderstorms will develop along the Front Range. The storms on July 15 are mostly in the southeast corner of the state.Severe threat looks to be to the south of the metro but if you have outdoor plans be prepared to head inside if a storm approaches. There is a margina...

Man arrested for allegedly beating man to death outside Walmart in Somersworth, NH

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

A man was arrested in connection with a murder outside of a Walmart in Somersworth, N.H. on Friday, officials said.52-year-old Brian Roberge of Somersworth, N.H. was charged with one count of second-degree murder for allegedly beating 79-year-old Jan VanTassel of Center Ossipee, N.H.Police responded to the Walmart on Waltons Way around 11:20 p.m. Friday to reports of an assault and found VanTassel unresponsive with head and facial injuries. He was announced dead at the scene.Roberge will appear in court Monday in the Strafford County Superior Court.

Enduring heat wave continues to choke the Southwest as high temperatures will move east

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

(CNN) — More than 85 million people remained under heat alerts Saturday as the weekslong heat wave continues and intensifies in the Southwest.Dangerously high temperatures will continue to plague the Western United States throughout the weekend, with temperatures growing hotter in the South early next week.“Daytime highs will routinely range between 10-20F above normal, equating to daytime temperatures approaching the century mark in the interior Northwest, between 100-110F in central and southern California, and 115-120F+ in the high desert of southern California, southern Nevada, and Arizona,” according to the Weather Prediction Center.More than 100 temperature records are possible through Monday across the West and South.Death Valley, California, could top 130 degrees on Sunday. That’s happened just five times in more than 110 years of recordPhoenix temperatures have reached 110 degrees on consecutive days, and the streak should continue through at least ...

Marketa Vondrousova defeats Ons Jabeur to win the Wimbledon women’s championship

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

Marketa Vondrousova became the lowest-ranked and first unseeded woman to win Wimbledon, defeating 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday.Vondrousova is a 24-year-old left-hander from the Czech Republic who is ranked 42nd. She was the first unseeded woman to even reach the final at the All England Club in 60 years – the last, 1963 runner-up Billie Jean King, was seated in the front row of the Royal Box on Saturday alongside Kate, the Princess of Wales.The retractable roof on the main stadium was closed, shielding everyone from the wind that topped 20 mph (30 kph) outside, and that perhaps allowed Vondrousova’s smooth lefty strokes to repeatedly find the intended mark. Her shots betrayed none of the sort of tension that Jabeur’s shots did.Vondrousova trailed in each set but collected the last four games of the first, then the last three games of the second.This is her first Grand Slam title. She lost in the final of the 2019 French Open as a teenager.Jabeur d...

Ukraine rejects Bulgarian president’s claims that Kyiv is to be blamed for Russia’s ongoing war

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Ukraine on Saturday criticized Bulgaria’s pro-Russian president over his remarks that Kyiv is to blame for Russia’s ongoing war and that supplying arms to Ukraine only prolongs the conflict. President Rumen Radev had told reporters on Friday, during a news conference in which he spoke about the recent NATO summit, that he wanted “to make it clear that Ukraine insists on fighting this war.” “But it should also be clear that the bill is paid by the whole of Europe,” he added.The remarks by the pro-Russian leader are part of his continuing efforts to keep Bulgaria out of joint EU military support for Ukraine.The Embassy of Ukraine in Sofia in a statement on Saturday said Kyiv was making all possible efforts to restore peace and rejected Radev’s stance that supplying arms to Ukraine fuels and prolongs the war. Blaming the war on Ukraine, which “was treacherously attacked by its northern neighbor, is one of the most common supporting theses of Russian propaga...

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu rushed to hospital, his office says he is in ‘good condition’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to a hospital on Saturday, but was in “good condition” as he undergoes a medical evaluation, his office said.The Israeli leader’s office said he was being treated at Israel’s Sheba Hospital, near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, but gave no further details.Walla, a leading Israeli news site, quoted an unnamed official close to Netanyahu as saying he had fainted but was fully conscious at the hospital. The report could not immediately be confirmed.Netanyahu, 73, is Israel’s longest serving leader. He has served multiple terms stretching over 15 years in office. His current far-right government, a collection of religious and ultranationalist parties, took office last December.

Tenants at two west-end buildings staging rent strike rally Saturday

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

Hundreds of tenants at two west-end properties are taking part in a “Rally for Fair Rent” today. Residents at 33 King Street and 22 John Street have not paid rent since June 1 citing mismanagement by corporate landlord Dream Unlimited and increases they say are three times higher than the buildings’ rent control guidelines. Provincial guidelines allow landlords of rent-controlled buildings to increase rents for most existing tenants based on the annual rent increase guidelines, which in 2023 is set at 2.5 per cent. The rent increase guideline for 2024 will remain unchanged.The cap does not apply to rental units first occupied after Nov. 15, 2018.Landlords can also apply to the Landlord and Tenant Board for increases above the rate set by the province.Some tenants have reported rent increases of 22 per cent over the last five years. A spokesperson for the corporate landlord told CityNews earlier this month they had reached out to tenants to develo...

South Korea to expand support for Ukraine as President Yoon Suk Yeol makes a surprise visit

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Saturday, offering support for the invaded country in its war with Russia while demonstrating his own nation’s cooperation with NATO. Yoon’s office said he traveled to Ukraine with his wife, Kim Keon Hee, following trips to Lithuania for a NATO summit and to Poland. It’s his first visit since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.Yoon toured Bucha and Irpin, two small cities near Kyiv where bodies of civilians were found in the streets and mass graves after Russian troops retreated from the capital region last year. He laid flowers at a monument to the country’s war dead, before he sat down for a summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.South Korea, a key U.S. ally in Asia, joined international sanctions against Russia and has provided Ukraine with humanitarian and financial support to Ukraine. But the Asian nation, a growing arms exporter, hasn’t provided wea...

Wagner mercenaries entering Belarus as Minsk announces ‘road map’ for joint military drills

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:27:11 GMT

A large convoy carrying fighters from the Wagner private army was spotted entering Belarus from Russia early Saturday, a monitoring group reported after the country’s Defense Ministry said it planned for the mercenaries and Minsk’s own armed forces to conduct joint military drills. The independent monitoring group Belaruski Hajun, which tracks the movements of armed forces in Belarus, said at least 60 trucks, buses and other large vehicles crossed into the eastern European country accompanied by Belarusian police. The group did not immediately provide photos or videos of the vehicles but said they had license plates from Russian-occupied areas of eastern Ukraine, where Wagner mercenaries fought alongside Russian troops until a short-lived mutiny last month. The convoy headed toward a military base outside Osipovichi, a town 230 kilometers (142 miles) north of the Ukrainian border. Satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press this month showed rows of tent-like struc...