Former St. James teacher disciplined after setting student’s hands on fire

KMIZ on February 11, 2026

Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A former teacher from St. James was disciplined by the State Board of Education after he allegedly set the hands of a student on fire in 2022.

A February agenda item for the State Board of Education says Tyler James Glidden – who was a math teacher at St. James High School – “attempted to demonstrate a science experiment by pouring hand sanitizer onto a student’s hands, and lit it on fire.”

Documents in the settlement with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education say Glidden used hand sanitzer that was in the room during his math class and “borrowed a contraband lighter from a different student to light the hand sanitizer on fire.”

The student allegedly suffered first- and second-degree burns and Glidden did not report the incident to school administration, filings show.

The incident occurred on Dec. 2, 2022, and the student showed Glidden the burns they suffered on Dec. 5, 2022.

Glidden was ordered to surrender his teaching certificate, which appeared to have expired in June 2025. He also held a substitute certification that expired in 2024.

ABC 17 News has reached out to the St. James school district.

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Delayed arrivals to El Paso International Airport

KVIA on February 11, 2026

Olivia Vara

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Arrivals and departures at the El Paso International Airport have resumed, but not without delays to those originally scheduled to arrive in El Paso early Wednesday morning.

This after a Pentagon plan to use a high-energy, counter-drone laser without having coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration about potential risks to civilian flights prompted Wednesday’s unprecedented airspace shutdown over El Paso, Texas, told by multiple sources acording to CNN.

Those accounts come as the Trump administration has claimed that a Mexican cartel drone crossing into US airspace is what triggered the 10-mile restriction centered on El Paso International Airport.

Late Tuesday, the FAA abruptly issued a temporary flight restriction that immediately grounded all flights up to 18,000 feet around the city for 10 days, effectively shutting down El Paso International Airport.

Hours after the El Paso International Airport resumed, domestic and international flights arriving to the airport have experienced delays ranging from 2 to several hours later than originally scheduled.

ABC-7 spoke with some of the people impacted by these flights once they finally arrived in El Paso.

Gisele Pokorny, one of the passengers on a delayed flight arriving to the El Paso International Airport, told ABC-7 that her flight was originally scheduled to depart from Houston at 10:00 am. 

After hours of waiting, she finally arrived to El Paso around 1 PM. She says she remembers passengers on the plane saying how stressed they were by the delay and that they wanted to get back to their families as soon as possible. Now that she’s finally home, one of the first things she plans on doing, is grabbing a subway sandwich.

“I feel way better now that I have arrived. I’m going to take a hot shower and I’m going to eat some subway sandwich. And I’m just going to relax,” Gisele Pokorny told ABC-7 during an interview.

Another passenger on a delayed flight arriving to the El Paso International Airport told ABC-7 he arrived hours later on his flight from Denver than originally scheduled.

In an interview with ABC-7, Robert Ahuja said he woke up at 5:30 AM to check the news before his flight. That’s when he saw all flights to and from the El Paso International Airport had been suspended. Ahuja says he then spent the next hour on the phone with United Airlines to cancel his flight and get his refund. Four minutes later, they lifted the suspension. Ahuja spent the next 3 hours rebooking his flight to El Paso after canceling it.

All this on his way to Mexico City to see his girlfriend. 

“I would have missed Valentine’s Day with my girlfriend, so it would have been a bad time for me,” Ahuja told ABC-7.

Some flight originally scheduled to arrive to the El Paso International Airport this morning are now expected to be arrive in the afternoon and even evening hours.

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Man arrested in Jefferson City after short standoff

KMIZ on February 11, 2026

Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A 39-year-old man with multiple warrants was arrested Tuesday in Jefferson City after a roughly half-hour standoff, a Wednesday press release from the Jefferson City Police Department says.

The release says an officer saw the man at 12:07 p.m. in the 200 block of Lafayette Street and the man ran away to a building. Police used a PA to tell the man to get out of the building, but he did not respond, the release says.

At 12:35 p.m., a SWAT team arrived, commands were made again by police and the man walked out of the building, the release says.

The man’s identity was not released by authorities on Wednesday.

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Man in Phoenix hospital following crash involving motorcycle

KYMA on February 11, 2026

Eduardo Morales

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA) – A 21-year-old man was riding a Honda motorcycle Tuesday morning when he crashed into the back of a Toyota Scion on South Avenue 3E, next the Marine Corps Air Station.

The man was taken to Onvida Health and then later flown to Phoenix, and the Yuma Police Department (YPD) says they believe speed was a factor in the crash.

“Please just slow down that is I guess, one of the biggest things is speed appears to be a factor in several of them, also reckless driving, weaving in and out of traffic,” said YPD Public Informations Officer Lori Franklin.

The 25-year-old man in the Toyota suffered minor injuries, but was not taken to the hospital.

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Wasatch County Republican Chair arrested for allegedly waterboarding teen daughter

KIFI on February 11, 2026

CNN Newsource

Originally Published: 11 FEB 26 16:59 ET

By Michael Martin

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    HEBER CITY, Utah (KSTU) — A 54-year-old Heber City man is facing aggravated child abuse charges after his 16-year-old daughter told police that he waterboarded her. FOX 13 News is not disclosing the name of the arrested party in an effort to protect the identity of the victim.

The Heber City Chief of Police confirmed to FOX 13 News that the arrested man was the Wasatch County Republican Party Chair.

According to court documents, on January 21, Heber City police received a mandatory child abuse and neglect report from the Utah Division of Child and Family Services. The report stated that the 16-year-old girl didn’t feel safe in her home and feared for her life.

Investigators spoke to the teen, who stated the incident happened one or two weeks prior to the interview.

The teen stated that she had gotten home from hanging out with friends when her father became upset that her room wasn’t completely cleaned. The teen stated that her father grabbed her by the back of her neck and took her into the bathroom, where a sink was filling with water.

The father allegedly dunked the teen’s head under the water before taking it out and splashing water on the teen’s face. The victim couldn’t remember how long this continued, but said she couldn’t breathe for about 20 to 30 seconds.

In addition to the recent incident, the victim told police that the same act had happened to her now 8-year-old brother following another argument. The victim told police that following the argument, her father grabbed the young child and forced his head underwater several times.

In another incident, the victim stated that a few years prior, her father backhanded her torso when she wasn’t compliant in doing something she was ordered to do.

The victim stated that after being struck, she started to cry, which prompted her father to make fun of her for crying. The incident allegedly caused bruising that lasted a week.

“I don’t feel very safe,” the victim told investigators. “When I go to bed, I feel like I can’t sleep because I don’t feel safe.”

The father was arrested on Tuesday and is being held without bail as detectives believe he may be a danger to the two younger children in the home.

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Idaho Falls leans into roundabouts for future growth

KIFI on February 11, 2026

Ariel Jensen

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — We are seeing a lot more roundabouts popping up all over Idaho Falls. The city of Idaho Falls says it is making plans for safer and more efficient traffic flow. One of those plans includes the construction of a roundabout at the Birch Street and South Boulevard intersection.

“So, roundabouts are an intersection improvement to try to help mitigate basically safety at intersections,” said Chris Canfield, Assistant Public Works Director for the city of Idaho Falls. “So they’re a good solution for kind of off-aligned intersections where we have a significant skew on one approach.”

Canfield says roundabouts are great for unbalanced traffic demands.

“Where you have like that thoroughfare, and you’ve got a couple of side approaches that don’t have as much, and we have what’s called a signal warrant. So basically, a roundabout is a good bridge for intersections where you have a lot of growth and a lot of demand, but not enough for to warrant a signal.”

Canfield explains how it’s challenging for drivers to have to look left and right for traffic coming in both directions. 

“Roundabout mitigates that where you’re just looking more left in front of you instead of behind you. And that just allows you to see, and it reduces the traffic conflicts at the intersection as well,” said Canfield. “So when people approach a roundabout intersection, their main focus is to look left. That’s where the traffic is coming. So, it reduces conflict points as people roll through the intersection as well.”

If you are interested in learning more about the Birch Street roundabout, there is an open house tonight, Wednesday, February 11, from 5:30 P.M to 7:30 P.M. in the City Council Chambers at the City Annex Building, 680 Park Avenue. During the open house, residents will be able to review project information, see the design, learn how traffic will move through the intersection, and ask city staff questions.

Those who are unable to attend the open house may submit comments by email to ifeng@idahofalls.gov. Public comments will be accepted through Monday, February 16th.

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Rep. Bynum nominates 23 Fifth District students to U.S. service academies; 6 are from Deschutes County

KTVZ on February 11, 2026

Barney Lerten

OREGON CITY, Ore. (KTVZ) – Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Ore. announced Wednesday the nomination of 23 students in Oregon’s Fifth Congressional District to the elite United States Service Academies, including six Deschutes County nominees.

Four retired veterans representing Naval, West Point, Air Force, and Merchant Marine Academies made up Bynum’s Service Academy Board. The board evaluated the applicants based on academic performance, extracurricular involvement, and character. 

“I am honored to nominate these outstanding young Oregonians to the United States Service Academies,” Bynum said in a news release. “Their commitment to service, academic achievement, and civil engagement is exactly what the Academies are all about.

“I’d also like to thank the Service Academy Board for investing their time, energy, and expertise into the nomination process. The nominees represent the very best of Oregon, and I am confident that they will make our district proud.”

The 2025 Service Academy Nominees are as follows:

Clackamas County: 

·         Cole Solari – Air Force Academy

·         Thomson Burch – Air Force Academy

·         Ryder Gray – Naval Academy

·         Wyatt Sturgeon – Air Force Academy

·         Logan Koelbel – Naval Academy

·         Derek Griffin – Air Force Academy

·         Claire Yates – Military Academy and Air Force Academy

·         Vivian Vogt – Naval Academy

·         Kruz Mogel – Air Force Academy

·         Kathryn Shurko – Merchant Marine Academy

·         Beckett Godfrey – Military Academy and Naval Academy

·         Matthew Wang – Air Force Academy and Naval Academy

·         Reese Wenker – Air Force Academy, Naval Academy, Military Academy

Deschutes County: 

·         Harrison Jennrich – Naval Academy

·         Keira Schroeder – Military Academy

·         Naomi Bennette – Naval Academy and Air Force Academy

·         West Abrams – Military Academy

·         Clara Rodrigues – Air Force Academy

·         Walter Petkun – Air Force Academy, Naval Academy, and Military Academy

Multnomah County:

·         Liam Flenniken – Air Force Academy

·         Sawyer Best – Merchant Marine Academy

·         Phoebe Fisher – Naval Academy, Air Force Academy, Military Academy

Marion County:

·         Ester Gorelik – Air Force Academy, Military Academy, and Naval Academy

You can read more about the Congressional Service Academy Nominations here and below.

The honor of attending a Service Academy comes with the obligation and commitment to serve in the military for a minimum of five years upon graduation.

Members of Congress may nominate candidates for appointment to four of the five U.S. service academies: U.S. Military Academy (USMA), West Point, NY; the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), Annapolis, MD; the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), Colorado Springs, CO; and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), Kings Point, NY. The fifth service academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA), New London, CT, does not require a congressional nomination for appointment.

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Woman who got probation in baby’s death accused of stealing from Conley Road Sam’s Club

KMIZ on February 11, 2026

Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A woman who was sentenced to probation in 2024 in an infant’s 2019 death is facing a felony charge in a new case.

Lavosha Daniels, of St. Louis, was charged on Monday in Boone County with felony stealing. A warrant was ordered on Monday and a $10,000 bond was set. She was not listed on the Boone County Jail roster on Wednesday afternoon.

The probable cause statement claims Daniels stole four Ninja Slushi machines on Jan. 14 from the Sam’s Club on Conley Road in Columbia. She allegedly stole two machines at 3:37 p.m. that day and came back at 4:56 p.m. to take two more, the statement says. Video allegedly showed her taking the items, court documents say.

Daniels had pleaded guilty on Dec. 16, 2024, to abandoning a corpse and first-degree involuntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to five years of probation along with an 11-year suspended sentence for the charges.

Prosecutors on Monday filed a motion to revoke her probation in light of the new charge filed.

She had originally been charged with corpse abandonment and child endangerment causing death after Samone Daniels, who was 4-5 months old, was found dead outside of a tire store in 2019.

The baby died after allegedly being strangled by Staffone Fountain, who was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Police arrested Fountain and Daniels in 2022 after someone found a note apparently from Daniels addressed to police in a different hotel describing what happened. Prosecutors claimed that Fountain may have struck the child and placed her in an unsafe sleeping position when he put the child in a car seat and placed her in the bathtub.

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Fulton police chief says every missing person’s case handled with same importance

KMIZ on February 11, 2026

Olivia Hayes

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Federal, state and local law enforcement in Arizona are intensifying their search for Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC’s “Today” host Savannah Guthrie, who has now been missing for 11 days.

On Wednesday, agents were seen searching multiple roadways near Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills. Investigators are still looking for other evidence tied to doorbell camera video released Tuesday from the night of her abduction and the person in it.

Authorities released a person early Wednesday morning who was detained for questioning in the case.

In Mid-Missouri, there are currently 619 active adult missing persons cases, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol database. Five are being investigated by the Jefferson City Police Department and the Columbia Police department is investigating 17 active cases.

The Fulton Police Department currently has no active missing persons investigation, but Chief Bill Ladwig told ABC 17 News that regardless of the person’s status or publicity around the case, FPD treats all missing persons investigations the same.

“We would ask for the help of the FBI, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, anybody that could come in and assist us with things, especially electronic data, that we don’t have the capability to do in-house,” Ladwig said of the agency’s process. “That would happen for anybody, whether it is Miss Guthrie or Mr. Smith down the street that went missing.”

Ladwig explained in the missing person cases FPD handles, the person often tends to show back up on their own.

“They’ve just wanted to be gone for a few days and come back and they’re found,” Ladwig said.

He also said typically in missing persons cases, there is not a lot of evidence for law enforcement to go off of, initially.

“You’re looking at their cellphone data, their computers or tablets looking for history,” Ladwig said. “Little breadcrumbs that’ll lead you down the right path in a situation like that.”

Investigators in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance did not release stills of the suspect in the doorbell camera video or the video itself until 10 days into her disappearance. Ladwig said while the doorbell cameras can be helpful, sometimes they can cause problems in an investigation.

“It can complicate things if there’s not a cloud storage or a DVR that it goes to,” Ladwig said.

Ladwig called multi-agency joint investigations, like the one into Guthrie’s disappearance, a team effort.

“The FBI could come in to Fulton, but they’re still going to need to know things about this municipality and our people that only we are going to know,” Ladwig said. “It’s not so much taken out of somebody’s hands. It just becomes a much larger, more diverse team that’s going to make this work.”

Sgt. Kyle Green, with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, said all missing persons cases are handled by the local jurisdiction unless it asks for assistance. He explained that if MSHP was asked to assist, the Division of Drug and Crime Control for that area would help.

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Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s 2026 Overtime Audit Presented to Board of Supervisors

KEYT on February 11, 2026

Jarrod Zinn

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Santa Barbara County Supervisors are going to take a closer look at overtime costs in the sheriff’s department.

Overtime costs are consistently exceeding the budget of $10 million… with overtime rising from $11 million in 2018 up to over $20 million in the last fiscal year.

The auditors’ representative began Tuesday’s presentation by acknowledging challenges beyond the sheriff’s department’s control, and clarified that this study was simply observing the department’s budget.

The report also showed 29 employees were so-called “high earners”… receiving more compensation in overtime than their base salaries.

Sheriff Bill Brown cited staffing shortages as a primary problem, and reported successful experimental efforts at avoiding overtime miscalculations.

“At the end of the day, you do control my budget,” said Sheriff Brown at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. “And so if you decide that you want to cut my budget by $10 million or $15 million, we will work within that budget to the extent that we can. I could do it. But it’s going to result in things that neither you nor your constituents will be happy with.”

The Board Of Supervisors approved a new plan demanding that the Sheriff’s Office conduct a thorough review of its time card policies, and will now look at the sheriff’s overtime every month.

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