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From ocregister.com A 33-year-old Lakewood Police Department officer was killed Thursday in a shootout on a bus that wounded three additional officers and a bystander and left the suspect — a parolee with a history of violence against law enforcement — dead. Lakewood Police Agent Nic Graham, a seven-year member of the department, was killed […] From ocregister.com By BRITTANY PETERSON and MEAD GRUVER EDITH, Colo. (AP) — Matthew Martinez has lived nearly all of his 60 years in a canyon on the Navajo River and had never seen severe floods. Then, twice over the last two weeks, the river surged through his home and outbuildings in far southwestern Colorado, about […] From ocregister.com By MICHAEL CASEY BOSTON (AP) — Jury deliberations began Friday in the trial of a former Massachusetts police officer accused of killing a pregnant woman to keep her from revealing he had begun sexually abusing her when she was 15. Federal prosecutors say Matthew Farwell killed Sandra Birchmore, 23, and tried to stage […] From ocregister.com Allan Filguieras’ daughter, Nathalia Filgueiras, was his soulmate. They spent their happiest moments together in the sky, flying together in his small plane. While she began flying alongside him at age 12, she quickly became a skilled pilot in her own right, earning a private license her senior year of high school. Now, […] From ocregister.com By DEEPA BHARATH Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India, particularly for Hindus, and widely marked by prayers, family gatherings and the lighting of fireworks. More than one billion people across faiths celebrate it in the world’s most populous nation and its diaspora. The name Diwali comes from “Deepavali,” […] From ocregister.com By JOHN RABY A storm system that caused what the National Weather Service calls a catastrophic, 1,000-year flood along the Tennessee-Georgia state line moved up the Eastern Seaboard on Friday, prompting flood advisories in coastal areas from North Carolina to Massachusetts. In McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee, residents and crews spent Friday cleaning […] From ocregister.com By R.J. RICO and EMILIE MEGNIEN ATLANTA (AP) — Zoo Atlanta’s newest pandas munched bamboo and lounged Friday during their public debut as smiling visitors lined up to welcome them. Ping Ping, a male, and Fu Shuang, a female, arrived in September from China under a 10-year loan agreement, bringing the cuddly black-and-white […] From ocregister.com Cornell University’s Faculty Senate approved a resolution Friday declaring “no confidence” in the school’s top leaders, a symbolic gesture reflecting deep discontent on campus in the wake of a former student’s lawsuit saying she was gang raped at a fraternity party in 2024. The resolution passed 75-50, with five faculty senators abstaining and […] From ocregister.com By DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged more support for Puerto Rico on Friday as it remains mired in multiple crises, asserting during a trip to the island that the sweeping Democratic win in the U.S. midterm elections […] Houston mayor signs order to limit cooperation with ICE, says ‘elections matter’ after Democrats winFrom ocregister.com By LEKAN OYEKANMI, ANNA WILDER and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The mayor of Houston on Friday said the city would limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, heralding “a new model” of immigration enforcement after Democrats won power in Texas for the first time in decades. Mayor John Whitmire said the […] |
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