Close call turns into fight in Bend restaurant parking lot, leading to two arrests

KTVZ on December 1, 2025

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(Update: Adding new details of incident, police concerns new scanner transcription app)

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Saturday, Bend Police officers were called to Taco Salsa on Galveston Avenue following a reported dispute according to Communications Manager Sheila Miller.

Miller said a truck exiting the drive-through nearly collided with a cyclist, and the two got into a fight. Police say the cyclist punched the driver in his truck, and the driver struck back.

After that, she said, the driver of the vehicle drove onto the landscape and hit a stone or cement bench and table.

Workers at Taco Salsa told KTVZ News on Monday the driver was chasing the bicyclist, and shared with us a photo of a red bike trapped under a purple truck. Bend Police have not confirmed this detail.

The altercation continued until police arrived. Both men were arrested for disorderly conduct and fourth-degree assault, and the driver was also arrested on suspicion of reckless driving, reckless endangering, and first- and second-degree criminal mischief, according to Miller.

“We see road rage calls.” Miller told us. “We all drive. We understand it can be frustrating sometimes. Violence is not the answer, and I would encourage people to find other outlets for their aggression.”  

This event caused a stir on social media with post of a screenshot from a dispatch app which claimed a car had crashed into Taco Salsa. This turned out to be incorrect. The new app listens to dispatch calls and then uses AI to write short articles based on what it hears.

The problem with this is that initial calls into 911 can contain incomplete or incorrect information. Bend police say the app may be incorrectly transcribing the calls, as well as adding details to make the articles more exciting.

“It seems to add words like ‘chaotic’ or, ‘urgent’, and it just creates sort of a sense of, I think, fear and sensationalizes information on what can typically be pretty run-of-the-mill calls for service for us,” Miller said.

Miller referenced her experience as a former journalist and encouraged people to vet their sources carefully: “I’m a big believer in taking into consideration where you get your information from and how accurate that is. And I worry that apps like this that are using AI instead of real people with real brains, can get in the way of you getting accurate information. ”

In the past, the service as reported mundane calls such as shoplifting as ‘theft with a police pursuit’ and recently exaggerated a medical call, latching into details such as a bloody car, with a gun in it near a local hospital.

Miller said police want people to be informed about our community, but they recommend looking at vetted sources, like official law enforcement social media pages.

Anyone can listen to public police dispatch calls, but it’s helpful to keep in mind these calls and police radio provide limited details.

Bend police also listed Pluse Point and Flash Alert as good alternatives, for those who want to stay informed from reputable sources.

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Southeast Idaho prepares to ‘Light Up the Night’ at Fourth Annual Community Chanukah Celebration

KIFI on December 1, 2025

Seth Ratliff

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Southeast Idaho’s growing Jewish community is inviting residents of all backgrounds to once again “light up the night” for the Fourth Annual Community Chanukah Celebration in Idaho Falls.

The family-friendly holiday event will take place on Sunday, December 14, 2025, at 5:00 PM at the Shilo Inn on Lindsay Blvd in Idaho Falls.

Last year, the celebration drew over 100 attendees who enjoyed traditional Chanukah songs, live music, festive treats, and the Grand Menorah Lighting Ceremony, hosted by Chabad Lubavitch of Idaho.

Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Idaho, notes that the local celebration reflects a statewide surge in interest and participation in Jewish events.

“This year, more than ever, we need to add light to illuminate the darkness,” said Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz, director of the statewide organization. “Chanukah celebrates the triumph of good over evil, of light over darkness. Bringing the community together in joy and unity is the most meaningful way to honor that message.”

The History and Message of Chanukah

Chanukah, commonly known as Hanukkah, is an eight-day celebration commemorating a pivotal moment in Jewish history, the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem. This followed the Jewish victory, led by the Maccabees, over the Greek-Syrian army that had overrun ancient Israel and sought to impose restrictions on Jewish religious practice.

Following the victory, only one jar of undefiled oil was found for the Temple’s daily menorah lighting service, enough to burn for just one day. Miraculously, it lasted for eight days.

In commemoration, Jews celebrate Hanukkah for eight days by lighting an eight-branched menorah, adding another candle each night.

“Today, the holiday carries a universal message of the triumph of freedom over oppression, of spirit over matter, of light over darkness,” Rabbi Lifshitz taught.

Global and Statewide Celebrations

The central theme of Chanukah—that every individual has the power to illuminate the world—is the bedrock of a global initiative launched in 1973 by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Rabbi Schneerson taught that a menorah placed where passersby can see it spreads light beyond the walls of the home. Public menorah lightings have become a hallmark of Jewish life worldwide, starting as part of this campaign to spread the holiday’s universal message of freedom and hope.

Today, over 15,000 public menorahs are lit in cities across the globe. While Millions of menorahs are lit and distributed by Jewish families who celebrate worldwide

In Idaho, festive gatherings will take place in Boise, Idaho Falls, Coeur d’Alene, Ketchum, and additional communities to mark the celebration statewide. Highlights include the Idaho State Capitol Chanukah Celebration with the Governor and multiple giant menorah installations across the state.

For more information or to register for events across the state, click HERE.

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ODOT to host Hawthorne Crossing Project open house in Bend

KTVZ on December 1, 2025

Kelsey Merison

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Transportation is hosting an open house for the community on Tuesday, December 2nd to educate residents about the Hawthorne Crossing Project. 

Attendees can see the new design, meet the project team, ask questions, and provide comments.

It will take place from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. at Dogwood at the Pine Shed, off of 2nd Street in Bend. 

For individuals unable to attend in person who would like to review the bridge design and/or provide comment, an online open house will be open now through December 9th. Click here to view the online open house.

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DONATIONS ENCOURAGED: Free gift wrapping service in Bend returns thanks to Oregon nonprofit

KTVZ on December 1, 2025

Kelsey Merison

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Are you in need of some extra help this holiday season?

Between decorating the house, buying gifts, and planning your holiday meal, this time of year can spread some people thin. 

Here’s something that might help: located at the Bend River Promenade off of 3rd Street, there’s a free gift wrapping service, aimed at taking some of the to do’s off your plate.

The free gift wrapping service happens every year and is put on by the nonprofit Oregon Equestrian Trails. The nonprofit accepts donations in exchange for wrapping.

You can drop gifts off between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. Monday, December 1st through December 13th. Starting December 14th, you can drop off gifts from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. through December 23rd. 

Volunteers from Oregon Equestrian Trails will wrap your gifts (purchased from any store) and call you when they are ready for pick up.

Click here to learn more.

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Andrew County Sheriff’s Office warns against jury duty scams

News-Press NOW on December 1, 2025

Leah Rainwater

ANDREW COUNTY, Mo. (KQTV) — The Andrew County Sheriff’s Office warned residents about a new area scam.

According to a Facebook Post, the Sheriff’s Office received multiple phone calls Monday about a scam that claims people have missed jury duty and that a warrant is out for their arrest.

The Sheriff’s Office said not to give out any personal or banking information. The Sheriff’s Office will not call to inform residents that they have missed jury duty.

Residents are encouraged to just hang up; however, if any personal or banking information has been given, residents should visit the Andrew County Sheriff’s Office to file a report.

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Three fatalities, 87 DWI arrests reported in Missouri over holiday week

News-Press NOW on December 1, 2025

Cameron Montemayor

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Three motorists, including a 44-year-old woman from Union, Missouri, were killed in motor vehicle crashes over the Thanksgiving holiday according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports three people died in traffic crashes during this year’s Thanksgiving holiday counting period, a decrease from six fatal crashes in 2024.

The counting period took place from 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. There were no boating crashes or drownings.

Traffic statistics for 2025 Thanksgiving Holiday (preliminary):

Crashes ─ 304Injuries ─ 82Fatalities ─ 3DWI Arrests ─ 87

Two traffic fatalities occurred on Nov. 27, 2025. A 40-year-old female from Branson, Missouri, was killed when the vehicle she was driving north traveled off the right side of the road, struck an embankment, became airborne, and overturned. The female driver was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. The driver was pronounced deceased at University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. The crash occurred on Missouri 135, at Lang Road, in Cooper County.

Also on Nov. 27, a 44-year-old female from Union, Missouri, was killed when the vehicle she was driving north on Interstate 29 began to skid and traveled off the left side of the roadway. The vehicle began to overturn in the median and came to rest in the southbound lanes. The female was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. She was pronounced deceased by the Atchison County Coroner. The crash occurred on Interstate 29, one mile north of Watson, in Atchison County. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Atchison County Sheriff’s Office, Rock Port Fire Department, and the Atchison-Holt Ambulance District.

On Nov. 28, 2025, an 11-year-old female from O’Fallon, Missouri, was killed when the when the vehicle she was a passenger in was traveling north on Missouri 79 and failed to yield to a southbound vehicle while making a left turn. The front of the southbound vehicle struck the right side of northbound vehicle, causing it to travel off the roadway and strike a guardrail. The juvenile female was wearing a seat belt. She was pronounced deceased at SSM Health St. Joseph West in Lake St. Louis, Missouri. The 57-year-old driver of the southbound vehicle sustained minor injuries in the crash. He was not wearing a seat belt. The 40-year-old driver of the northbound vehicle sustained serious injuries in the crash. He was wearing a seat belt. The crash occurred on Missouri 79, at Missouri Route M, in St. Charles County. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the O’Fallon and St. Charles County Police Department’s.

Previous year’s traffic crash data

During the 2024 Thanksgiving holiday counting period, troopers investigated 462 traffic crashes, which included six fatalities and 158 injuries. Statewide, 11 people died and 571 people were injured in 1,664 traffic crashes over last year’s Thanksgiving holiday. Troopers arrested 106 people for driving while intoxicated during the 2024 Thanksgiving holiday counting period.

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‘A Thanksgiving never to be forgotten’ parents recount baby born on interstate

KIFI on December 1, 2025

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Originally Published: 30 NOV 25 16:00 ET

By Scott McKane

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    MURRAY, Utah (KSTU) — Luna Grace is her name, born on I-15 in Murray, and her parents, Vannessa and Dax Lowe, share the Thanksgiving story to top all others.

Both mom and dad were on the way to Intermountain Medical Center, but the 5300 South offramp of I-15 was the end of the road for baby Luna who wasn’t going to wait a moment longer.

“A thanksgiving, never to be forgotten!” said Daxton.

“Oh, wow, we did that! We had a baby, while you were driving, and I caught her. It’s insane!” said Vanessa.

Vannessa and Dax Lowe are high school sweethearts who already have a 22-month-old daughter.

But baby number two, Luna Grace, arrived a few days early and in a way neither of them expected.

It all began early Thursday afternoon. The couple dropped off their toddler with a relative on their way to the hospital. But they wanted to take some homemade food with them.

While Vanessa waited in their minivan, she says hunger pains were quickly overtaken by labor pains.

“I called him and I said, ‘Forget the food, come back to the car, I’m dying right now!’ Then out came Zach holding a couple of things of leftovers,” she said. “We didn’t get Thanksgiving dinner, so we had to have something.”

At the off-ramp, Dax asked Vannessa if she was doing okay.

“And I go, nope, I feel like she’s coming right now! And I reached down and I go; ‘wow, that’s her head!” She said.

After pulling off onto the shoulder, Dax then called 911 while Mother Nature and Luna Grace took over.

“She just shot out, and I somehow caught her! As I was pulling off, I literally looked over and just watched the baby launch, right into mom‘s hands, boom right there!” Said Vanessa.

According to Corpor,al Chaseton Stevens with Utah Highway Patrol, paramedics and officers arrived to help get them the rest of the way to the hospital.

“I think this is going to be like the story they tell forever, right? Like having a baby on Thanksgiving and trying to get to the hospital and having the baby in the freeway right? Like all those things, it doesn’t happen often,” he said.

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City enacts first phase of snow ordinance

News-Press NOW on December 1, 2025

Leah Rainwater

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) — The City of St. Joseph announced it has enacted Phase I of its snow ordinance, as snow continues to accumulate across the region.

Phase I is declared during the first snowfall of the season and stays in effect through the end of winter.

All-season/snow tires or chains are required on vehicles at this time. Drivers who do not have snow tires or chains and become stalled on any street could be ticketed, according to a news release.

The City currently has a dozen crews out salting the streets.

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Monday snowfall covers Mid-Missouri roads, leads to early school dismissals

KMIZ on December 1, 2025

Matthew Sanders

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Snowfall began coating some Mid-Missouri roads by 9 a.m. Monday and continued well into the afternoon, leading to dozens of slide-offs and crashes and closing part of Interstate 70 for hours.

After light snowfall over the holiday weekend, a few more inches were expected to accumulate Monday, with high temperatures staying in the low to mid-20s. That snow will likely cause difficulties for commuters on Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

Some areas could see snowfall of 4 to 6 inches.

Officials closed Route UU in western Boone County on Monday morning.

State highways in the western part of Mid-Missouri were at least partially covered in snow by 9 a.m. By noon Monday, most of the region’s highways were covered or partially covered in snow, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation’s traveler information map.

Interstate 70 was closed Monday morning at the Highway 65 exit for a tractor-trailer crash. Traffic was also slowed by a crash on I-70 westbound at the Boone and Callaway County line after a crash into the median.

The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office wrote on social media that several slide-offs happened Monday morning between the Millersburg and Williamsburg exits.

Boone County emergency management wrote in a social media post before 11 a.m. that crashes were picking up as roads became covered. Roads in Columbia had also become slick by late morning, with emergency dispatchers alerting the public to several vehicles stuck near Chapel Hill and Fairview roads.

Columbia Public Works warned residents to move vehicles from priority roads as accumulation approached 2 inches Monday afternoon. Troop F of the Missouri State Highway Patrol wrote on social media a little after noon that troopers were working 45 crash scenes on the area’s major highways.

Columbia Public Works Spokesman John Ogan told ABC 17 News via email Monday night that the city planned to have a 22-person crew work overnight to address conditions.

MSHP Sgt. Kyle Green said just before 3 p.m. that Troop F had responded to about 80 crashes and about 80 slide-offs since 10 a.m. Monday.

MSHP Troop A reported since 12 a.m. Monday they had responded to 84 stranded motorists, 80 crashes with no one hurt and 14 crashes with people hurt as a result, in a social media post.

Since 12:00 a.m., 12/1/25, Troop A has handled 216 calls for service including:

– 84 Stranded Motorists- 80 Non-injury Crashes- 14 Injury Crashes

As the snow continues to fall, avoid travel if possible. If you must drive, remember to take it slow, buckle up, & drive focused! pic.twitter.com/m4YCIbbcrX

— MSHP Troop A (@MSHPTrooperA) December 1, 2025

LINK: Closures and delays

Several schools had also called early dismissals. Southern Boone will dismiss at 1 p.m., while Columbia Public Schools let families know that after-school activities were canceled for middle and high school students.

Mexico Public Schools was the first district to call off Tuesday classes.

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MDSO releases bodycam video of shootout between armed suspect and deputy near Cutler Bay; suspect killed

CNN on December 1, 2025


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By Peter D’Oench

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    Florida (WFOR) — New bodycam video released by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office shows some tense and frightening moments as a deputy and a suspect in a minivan were involved in a gun battle in Southwest Miami-Dade, resulting in the suspect’s death.

MDSO wants to be transparent with the community

Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said, “We recognize incidents of this nature raise questions and concerns with our community, and I believe the public has the right to see critical incidents involving law enforcement.”

She also said, “My commitment is clear: to be transparent with our community, to hold ourselves to the highest standards, and to continue to work every day and to earn and maintain your trust.”

Shots ring out in bodycam video MDSO said the incident started on Sept. 16, when there was a 911 call about a man pointing a firearm at people around SW 216th Street and 122nd Avenue.

That suspect was later identified as 44-year-old Jose Pineda Jr.

A 911 caller said, “There’s a guy in a Honda, He’s pulling a gun on everybody. Please send police. Hurry up now.”

MDSO said when Sgt. Gilberto Crespo arrived at the scene, Pineda was sitting inside a minivan. Crespo then reportedly ordered Pineda to show his hands; however, Pineda shouted back, “I got no hands.”

Then, gunfire erupted.

MDSO said Pineda fired rounds at Deputy Crespo, and some bullets struck his patrol car. The deputy was forced to hide behind a pickup truck to take cover.

In the bodycam video, Crespo can be heard shouting, “Shots fired. Shots fired. He’s armed. He’s in the car. He’s in the car.”

At some point, Pineda left his vehicle while still holding his firearm. A 2nd deputy arrived and found Pineda on the ground. Then, that deputy can be heard saying, “Where is he? Subject down. Subject down.”

Pineda received medical aid and was taken to the hospital, but didn’t survive his injuries, MDSO said.

Officers tasked with making split-second decisions, says PBA president CBS News Miami showed the bodycam video to Steadman Stahl, the president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association.

Stahl said, “That’s absolutely incredible. These officers have to make split-second decisions. That video is just a tip of what these officers have to do in those life and death situations. You see it in seconds, not minutes, not hours. They pull up to a scene and get out of their car, and have to discharge their firearm. That was a gun battle.”

He continued, “I am glad the department is putting out that video. You can see the subject is armed. I believe other people saw him pointing his gun at people. That was not the first time the gentleman had done that.”

How many police officers have been shot nationwide As the video is released, the Fraternal Order of Police released new figures about the number of police officers shot nationwide so far this year.

The FOP said 314 officers have been shot in the line of duty, and 43 of them were killed.

CBS News Miami tried to speak with Pineda’s family; however, they haven’t been found. The deputy-involved shooting is under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

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