In the news
▪ Nicole Nishida, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County sheriff’s office, said the extent of several deputies’ injuries was unknown as at least four deputies were hospitalized after a fire during a “training incident” in Castaic, Calif.
▪ Roxanne Wilson, the wife of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., in “an assault” witnessed by two medical technicians, forcibly jammed medicine into her 98-year-old mother’s mouth with a fork and flooded her mouth with water “until she was choking,” according to a Lexington County sheriff’s office incident report.
▪ Zhivko Kotsev, Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry chief secretary, said 12 people arrested on suspicion of illegally exporting dual-use goods to Russia that can be used by the Russian military in Ukraine included citizens of Bulgaria, Russia and Belarus. m Perry Lott, 61, who spent 30 years in prison, said he “can finally shut this door and move on with my life” after Pontotoc County District Judge Steven Kessinger issued a final order exonerating him of a 1987 rape and burglary in Oklahoma.
▪ Nicole Jacques , a spokesperson for owners of the Grace Bailey schooner in Maine, said Emily Mecklenburg, a 40-year-old physician of Rockland, was declared dead after she was evacuated from the vessel that was struck by its main mast.
▪ Kiran Kimbrough, an Atlanta police officer, plans to appeals his termination for fatally stunning a 62-year-old man during a dispute over a traffic ticket, as he “vehemently denies any wrongdoing or policy violations,” his attorney, Lance LoRusso, said in a statement.
▪ Travis Gienger, a landscape and horticulture teacher of Anoka, Minn., won the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., and set a world record in the state for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a gourd weighing 2,749 pounds.
▪ Krzysztof Zapart and Piotr Halas, a Polish piloting team, were injured and taken to a hospital after the hot air balloon they were racing in an international competition crashed into a Crandall, Texas, power line and exploded, race officials said.
▪ Erika Aklufi, a lieutenant with Santa Monica, Calif., police, said authorities worked to detain a man who scaled a Ferris wheel wearing a backpack and acted “as if he does [have a bomb] until we can prove that he doesn’t.”