An accused former school teacher who was in four-hour standoff with sheriff’s deputies Friday has been booked at the Sacramento County Jail and is scheduled to return to court Tuesday. After the standoff with deputies, Steven Richard Kester, 78, was treated for injuries at a hospital over the weekend and booked Sunday evening at the […]
Jun. 23—One person is dead after a hostage situation and eventual standoff with police Saturday afternoon in Merrimack. At 1:50 p.m., a Cabot Road resident called 911 and told police they were being held at gunpoint by another household member. When officers arrived, they were able to get the caller out of the house unharmed, […]
Jun. 22—Anchorage police on Saturday identified Lisa M. Fordyce-Blair as the woman who died early Thursday after a standoff with officers that involved gunfire. Fordyce-Blair, 58, fired multiple shots inside her home before a SWAT officer “discharged their weapon from outside,” police said. She was found dead inside the home, they said. It wasn’t clear […]
Credit: Nvidia Nvidia is well known for its high-performance gaming GPUs and industry-leading AI GPUs. However, the trillion-dollar GPU manufacturer is also known for controlling how its GPUs are used beyond company walls. For example, it can be quite restrictive with its AIB partners’ graphics card designs. Perhaps not surprisingly, this level of control also […]
An 18-year-old man was arrested after an hours-long SWAT standoff at a north Lubbock apartment complex Friday afternoon following a reported aggravated assault that left one person seriously injured. Shortly before 4 p.m., Lubbock police on scene confirmed that Eddie Casias was arrested on an aggravated assault charge following the standoff at the apartment complex […]
Sacramento police officers are “attempting to negotiate” with a reported gunman Friday afternoon in William Land Park near the entrance to Fairytale Town and the Sacramento Zoo. The Police Department said in a social media post that officers were in the area of Land Park Drive and 17th Avenue for “reports of a man with […]
Beijing has hit back at Manila’s accusations of aggression in a stand-off in the South China Sea this week, saying Philippine vessels deliberately rammed Chinese boats, carried weapons and attacked Chinese personnel near a disputed shoal. Chinese boats intercepted a Philippine vessel heading to the Second Thomas Shoal on Monday on what Manila described as […]
CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Ill. – The scene of a standoff involving Cahokia Heights Police has cleared late Tuesday night with no sign of an individual police were looking for. Nearby residents of Lake Drive and North 73rd Street say there was a dispute involving a dog, and a gunshot may have been fired. Police blocked the […]
A Nampa man won’t face any more jail time after he resisted arrest for an outstanding felony warrant and prompted a 10-hour standoff with law enforcement last year. Rodolfo Reyes, 37, pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and obstructing officers who arrived at his home in July 2023 to arrest him for a charge of domestic […]
The European Commission is “analysing” the opening of an investigation by China into so-called anti-dumping duties on EU pork and its by-products. China’s commerce ministry launched the probe yesterday (17 June), purportedly in retaliation to the EC’s “provisional” notification last week to impose tariffs on imported Chinese battery electric vehicles (BEV). In making that proposal, […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s shortage of public defenders allowed a man with a violent criminal history to be released on bail three days before he went to his former girlfriend’s Auburn home, where another man was killed before an hourslong standoff with police in which shots were exchanged, two houses burned to the ground […]
Jun. 14—Spokane law enforcement officers were justified in shooting and killing a man in August 2022 after a standoff during which he fired at police, the Spokane County Prosecutor found Friday. The shooting ended a nearly five-hour confrontation with Dominic Shears, who was wanted after a robbery earlier in the evening. Spokane Police detectives along […]